Jon Stewart Rips the 40 A-Hole GOP Senators Who Blocked Jobs for Veterans

[superpunk]

http://www.politicususa.com/jon-stewart-rips-40-a-hole-gop-senators-blocked-jobs-vets.html

As divided as America is there are still a few things we can agree on. One, popcorn is corn, so for dietary purposes it does count as a vegetable, and number two. (Video of Candy Crowley reporting on a CNN poll that found by a margin of 85%-14% respondents said it more important prevent cuts in veterans’ benefits than reducing the deficit.) Stewart said, “Wait, but the 14, who are the a**holes the 14% that say reducing the deficit is more important than our obligation to our veterans. Who are the a**holes? (Video of Chuck Todd reporting that 40 Republican senators blocked a jobs bill for vets because it was too expensive.)

Let me be absolutely clear about what happened here, forty Republican senators thought it would be wrong to spend a billion dollars on a bill to help reintegrate veterans into the domestic workforce partly because of the amount of money we had already gladly spent on wars that made them veterans in the first place.

Senate Republicans blocked the legislation that would have created 20,000 jobs for veterans on September 19, and then quickly and quietly hightailed it out of town. At the time of the original story, some Republicans asked where was the list of Democrats who voted against this? They didn’t seem to comprehend that every Democrat voted to advance this legislation.

It is great to see Jon Stewart bringing attention to this deplorable political behavior, but these Republican senators should not be left off the hook.

Here is the list of the 40 Republican senators who stabbed our veterans in the back

 

[VA Cowboy]

ZOMG!! Jon Stewart!

 

[dbair1967]

http://www.politicususa.com/jon-stewart-rips-40-a-hole-gop-senators-blocked-jobs-vets.html

Please give all details of the other shit they stuck in the bill, otherwise dont waste our time with the b/s

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Please give all details of the other shit they stuck in the bill, otherwise dont waste our time with the b/s

It was not anything else. It was designed to set up a Veterans Jobs Corps and would cost $1b over the next 5 years and it was squashed on a budgetary point of order. Red team fucked up on this one.