And as pointed out by the Washington Monthly, the only media covering this is ... The Daily Show. Watch this interview, it's goddam heartbreaking.
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| 9/11 First Responders React to the Senate Filibuster | ||||
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I recommended watching that whole episode from last night. Jon Stewart is really impassioned about this one; really angry, and I think justifiably so.
He spent the whole first segment on how the media is flat out burying this story. He showed that the only news network really covering it is Al Jazeera.
Additionally, after that talk with those 4 gentleman, Mike Huckabee was the guest, and Stewart pushed him to talk about this too, and why Fox News (Huckabee's current employer) isn't gearing up their 9/11 outrage machine.
Colbert also spent his first segment on this issue, and he really unsheathed some toothed commentary on that one, with a bit more transparency than he allows the character he plays. I also recommended heading to Colbert nation to watch that first segment.
I guess it's true, Congress IS the opposite of progress.
I watched "The Daily Show" last night and was happy/pissed about it at the same time. I am glad that John Stewart used his platform to try to help, but I am pissed that the government can't do something as simple as this to help out those first responders.
For the past few months, I have found myself marveling the that total lack of lethal lightning strikes on members of the Republican Caucus in the Senate...and I'm agnostic. It just seems like it is the end result that makes sense...that such an orgy of divine retribution for this and so many other moral outrages would be inevitable.
Heck, I work hard at never wishing physical harm to come to another human being. Even for Dick Cheney, I restrain myself to level of "I wouldn't piss on him if he were on fire." i.e. I wouldn't wish anything bad on him, but wouldn't lift a finger to help him in most dire of life threatening circumstances.
These assholes however...I find myself fantasizing various Senators finishing one of their blatant lies about 9/11 health benefits, taxes, unemployment insurance, New START, etc. and being then being struck down by the visible hand of God on the Senate floor.
If this a taste of what we are in for for the next two years, I'm now officially in "Enjoy Every Sandwich" mode.
I have no adequate words for this kind of self-serving willful ignorance.
I'm heartsick.
Watching that made me very sad...The stories of those NY Firefighters were heartbreaking, although I have to admit they looked like they came out of central casting.
[Insert List of Heartfelt Expletives Here]
"I feel like apologizing to you, and I don't even know why."
The brutal irony of this situation is so stifling I can hardly think of how to respond. I do know I need to compile a list of every Senator involved in the filibuster, to remember. Forever.
Next on Fox News and Friends:
Anonymous sources confirm that 9/11 responders "came from central casting."
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Yeah, we're due for two years of high bastardry. And it will all be done in the name of "the American People who told government what they wanted on election day" or similar fucktardery.
And the outrage addicts will support them, because conservative media has figured out how to tickle their limbic system as effectively as those parasites that cause rats to go look for cats to make friends with.
I'm not going to lie. I had to stop that video for about 15 minutes to stop crying.
Should a senator's home ever catch on fire, I want a fireman to say, "Hey, what's the problem, you have insurance, don't you?" and then stand there with his buddies, discussing some other issue, while the sonofabitch burns. I desperately want senators to know how it feels to watch their lives going to shit before their very eyes while people who are supposed to work for them and help them give them the finger. Then they can say they represent the American people.
As for Mitch McConnell and John Kyl, I don't have any profanity filthy enough for what I think of them. And I am totally with the poster above who wants lightning strikes from on high every time one of these sanctimonious assholes opens his mouth and invokes Christianity. Nowhere in the Christianity I profess and try to practice is it acceptable to screw over your fellow man while protecting your rich fuckbuddies. In fact, I'm pretty sure that most of what Jesus said (longhaired hippie that he was) was just the opposite.
Seriously, I want God to forget all that New Testament crap for a while and go Old Testament on their asses. And then I want Jesus to do to the Fox News shitheads what he did to the moneychangers in the Temple.
I also think it's time we started throwing some stimulus money around to revive the guillotine industry …
And pundits wonder why people rely on Stewart/Colbert for their news...
Each time a vote comes up and my Senators from Georgia votes the opposite of what I want, I wonder why I live in a red state.
However, at least both the House and Senate voted to repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell.
@Anonymous - They might have been from Central Casting, if Central Casting was based in Lynbrook, LI or Staten Island. Those guys didn't come from Central Casting. They came from Elmont or Massapequa or Tottenville.
The creatures that inhabit the Senate and filibustered this bill are terrible human beings who should not be able to look in a mirror without disgust. But that would require they had a sense of shame to being with. Sadly, their willful disregard for the simple humanity of the true heros of 9/11 is not a surprise.
Story has been covered by NY NJ media and print and web columnists, local and national. http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/12/republicans_block_74b_health_c.html
With respect, Stewart is late to the party.
Can we call this how it really is?
The Republicans in the Senate are very very bad. Yes, the senate rules allow for these abuses to occur, and yes, that is a serious structural problem, but for around 200 years the system managed to be stable enough to at least be workable. That the structural limitations of the system are being so keenly highlighted is very much due to the sheer insanity of what the Republican party has become.
They're actively trying to dismantle much of the government. It's part of their mission statement even, since Reagan. "Starve the Beast" and all. When you've got a powerful political party that has a primary objective of preventing the government from being effective, you cannot expect to have a functional government.
Because consider what sort of madness could have been unleashed during the Bush administration if there was no filibuster in the Senate. Consider what sort of madness we'd see in the upcoming Sarah Palin administration if the worst excesses couldn't be stopped by a minority of Democrats. That rule does serve a valid purpose. But it's being subverted and there is no political cost being extracted for it. It's that that breaks the system.
If ABC, NBC, and CBS were nailing the Republicans to the wall over this, we'd be getting somewhere.
Hi, I'm not from the US but from over here it's quite obvious your health care and insurance relationship is broke and the recent health care reforms only starts to fix it. Your problems run far deeper than bumping the first responder's bill away.
That being said, as calculating as it sounds, bumping the bill in favour of other bills make sense. Emotionally this bill is very important, but monetarily it is not. Far more people are affected financially by other bills than this one so priority should go to others if time is limited. That's not to say it should not be addressed.
I used to wonder why the US always show the President going on holidays, even during a crisis. Now I see that apart from R&R time, your leaders need to show its people holidays and important occasions are important to set aside, not only for moral reasons, but for economic ones too. Do you realise how many businesses are reliant on people going/spending on holidays. Your tourism industry will collpase if everyone works and nobody takes a break. The financial impact of not going on holiday to your economy is far greater than the first responders bill.
I sound like the grinch:) But I call it as it is. My sympathies to them though.
I think you said it best in this post John:
http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2007/07/l33t-justice.html
And it seems to be catching on...
Why have their been no Republicans commenting on here making excuses about why this is actually the right thing to do and how we're blowing it out of proportion like so often happens when John brings up something political?
Tim W: Maybe it's because even the knee-jerk Republican defenders can't see that this is in any way defensible?
...I know. But I can dream, can't I?
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You want conservative coverage, you got it. Merry Christmas from me. :-) (Plenty of links to follow within the links.)
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/12/21/shep-smith-to-tom-coburn-i-cant-believe-youre-blocking-this-911-health-care-bill/
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/12/22/breaking-deal-reached-on-911-responder-health-bill/
Not that I expect anyone to like it. :-) But at least it debunks the "Conservatives are totally silent on this!" myth.
I was watching Million Dollar Money Drop and "The Most Trusted News Anchor in 2008" came up as a question. From my perch on the couch, I went, "Jon Stewart, hands down." My mother tried to get me to explain why. Two days later, you posted this and I told my mother "This is why!" (I was right on the answer by the way.)
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