What about our soldiers in Iraq & Afghanistan??? I bet they would love to be home for Christmas!!!
What about the 17.5% Americans who are out of work because of the socialist bastards??? I bet they would love to be working on Christmas Eve & Christmas Day, just to have a job.
I am going to call tomorrow and scream & holler to Mitch McConnell's office about this....not that it will do any good, other than to vent off steam. What bastards we have in Washington DC!!!
We can always rely on the cowardly pubs to act in their own self-interest; in this case, making it home in time for their Christmas porridge.
All cave, no brave.
“Republicans, under pressure not to wreck Christmas for lawmakers and their staffs, agreed Tuesday that Senate passage of the Democrats’ controversial bill seemed inevitable and scaled back procedural-delay mechanisms to allow a vote by the morning of Christmas Eve.”
Perfect example of the priorities of the “stupid party”. If this were the rats, they’d fight to the death on this.
Just sent this to McConnell via his website:
Good Morning, Senator.
Thanks for folding like a house of cards on Obamacare.
Have you tried reading the Federalist papers (say #7) on the issues which come up when Federal taxes are apportioned differently between the several states?
You know, concerning the bribe Sen. Nelson of Nebraska received for his principled heroic stand on behalf of his constituents...which lasted all of, what, two days?
Hint: think “Unconstitutional”.
And you’re too LAZY to sacrifice Christmas for a mere 1/6 of the Nation’s economy? Our troops in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere have to miss Christmas — and without the Cadillac plan, hefty pensions, Congressional banking (are your Dem friends back to kiting checks again? : you might want to double check as it’s been 15 years) — which you take for granted.
Here’s a clue, Senator.
Call your colleagues in the House.
I know they are mere mortals, and not part of the SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, and you might get lice from them merely by having one of your staffers picking up the phone to call. I know they are beneath your dignity as those who have to (chortle) return to their districts occasionally to run for re-election and ask for money from the great unwashed in flyover country.
But I’m asking, in the spirit of Christmas, the time of giving, that you do this, as a gift. Ask them to reach out to threatened Blue Dog Democrats — you know, how one Democrat from Alabama joined the GOP yesterday? — and suggest that they band together to replace Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House.
Think of it as payback for Jumping Jim Jeffords, or for Arlen Specter.
How’d that dissing of the base by rejecting Toomey work for President Bush anyway, eh? Really solidified the party.
...oh, and Merry Christmas.
There are hills worth dying on.
Instead they just want to go home and eat cookies.
Disgusting.