When Senators Jim Bunning and Mitch McConnell voted against H.R. 4213: Tax Extenders Act of 2009, March 10, 2010, they voted against folks on Medicare, folks on Medicaid, the unemployed and folks on COBRA. Click here to see the roll call.
Jim Bunning And Mitch McConnell Voted Against The Elderly On Medicare:
Dot Med News The Senate voted Wednesday to delay the 2010 cut in Medicare physician reimbursement. The 21% reduction was to go into effect March 1 till a vote last Tuesday put it off till the end of March. Yesterday's follow-up means the cut will take effect October 1.
Jim Bunning and Mitch McConnell voted to allow the 21% reduction Medicare physician reimbursement. Shame on them.
According to our source Senators from each state were supposed visit the young people last night, March 10, 2010, attending the 2010 United States Senate Youth Program Washington Week. Well guess what? Senators Jim Bunning and Mitch McConnell didn't show up. The Youth program sent the senators an invitation, Jim Bunning refused and Mitch McConnell didn't respond. When Mitch McConnell didn't respond another invitation letter was sent along with an email and Senator Mitch McConnell still didn't respond. Senator Mitch McConnell HONORARY CO-CHAIR of the 2010 UNITED STATES SENATE YOUTH PROGRAM ADVISORY COMMITTEE and he didn't respond?
Its about time. For decades Progressives in Kentucky have been completely disgusted with the anti-American tactics used by Mitch McConnell and his minions in the Kentucky Republican Party who followed him like obsessed disciples. When President Obama first entered office I could not believe that a man as seemingly intelligent as he is could ever think he would be able to work with a man such as McConnell. Now, it appears after reaching out to McConnell and his radically Corporate Republian Party and pulling back a bloody nub just as we predicted here the President has had his fill. Thankfully, he is finally taking McConnell and his crowd to task.
The most hypocritical Senator for Communist China, Mitch McConnell is at it again. Yes, this man talks a good game about the American people while he outsources their jobs to oppressive governments who use virtual slave labor all while telling them we should "listen to" them. However, the sorry truth is that Mitch McConnell could really care less about what the American people think.
Boy, the Senator for Communist China Mitch McConnell has some nerve. After spearheading the Republican "do-nothing good" Congress that rubber-stamped every failed policy of the worst President in American history he is seeking to lecture others on debt, taxes, healthcare and the economy. I mean these are the folks that brought us a trillion wasted dollars on failed wars and whose only solution to anything was to put it on the American credit card or borrow it from China. Now, McConnell seeks to bemoan the commission started by President Obama to reduce the Federal Deficit.
In light of the recent Supreme Court decision that discarded over a hundred years of US campaign law precedence and now completely enthrones corporations with unlimited influence and the freedom to purchase our representative government (to an even greater extent than already achieved) as “citizens” with uninhibited rights to free speech under Senate Minority Leader McConnell’s argument that money equals speech, I believe it is well within the realm of possibilities and reason – as well as urgently necessary - to extend Endangered Species Act protections to the American Worker and the broader species of American Middle Class made up primarily by these workers.
The Endangered Species Act of 1973 is intended to protect critically imperiled species from extinction as a “consequence of economic growth and development un-tempered by adequate concerns and conservation”.
Brown Bag Vigil Host: West KY Citizens for Health Care Reform Date: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm Location: Front of Sen. Mitch McConnell's Office Street: 2320 Broadway (Professional Arts Bldg.) City/Town: Paducah, KY Face Book Page:
Leader of the the party of GEE NO PEEE 70 fillibuster last year.Under Bush voted 8 times for reconciliation and to pass tax cuts, how this man keeps getting elected is beyond me.
While I have been disappointed with and ripped into President Obama on occasion the Republican response to his new budget completely defines hypocrisy. Before saying anything, they should consider exactly who got us into the mess we are in- THEM. Their control of our government was a disaster for our country.
In a long overdue move that is sure to upset the Senator from Communist China, Mitch McConnell the Obama Administration is starting to push back against China as tensions mount between the countries. It all started with Obama's first visit there when he was chided about the state of the American economy and his visits were staged while the Chinese refused to concede anything on climate change, human rights and would not join in demands for tough security sanctions against Iran.
Some of us who live in rural Kentucky are appalled at the suggestion that an Ay-rab terrorist like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed could be tried all Constitution-like at the scene of the crime in New York City. The US would have to spend a lot of money making security arrangements to protect big-city Wall Street folks and make them feel secure and blocking off streets and making it hard for them to go about their daily lives and doing their daily jobs of ripping off the public. Even non-banker big-city folks could be inconvenienced, and that might make them get rude, and out here in the sticks, we've heard that no matter what, you don't want to make New York City folks get rude. So we think y'all ought to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and them other boys here in rural Kentucky.
I watched Barack Obama's State of the Union address last night January 27, 2010, (the video is after the page break) and did my best to be objective as possible. It's tough to be objective when you've worked so hard to help elect Barack Obama and then feel he's let you down from time to time during his first year. My journey started with Barack Obama September 14, 2006 when I shot video of him in Louisville, Kentucky and continued until he was elected. Click here to view the videos I've shot of him during this journey, including his announcement in Springfield, Ill. Getting back to the State of the Union. I felt that Barack Obama distanced himself from the Left and Right ideologues. The GOP Response is After the page break.
As a Democrat it makes me just a little sad to write this but as a Progressive seeing what was coming out of Washington after Blue Dogs in the House and Corporate Democrats in the Senate poisoned the process it makes me happy to say that for the time being Universal Healthcare is dead in the Congress. I say this as an uncovered American who desperately wanted real reform, but saw the process devolve away from me to how to pass out more Corporate Welfare. In the end, the bill that would have come out of the "House of Lords" known as the U.S. Senate simply scared the hell out of me.
Barack Obama inherited one of the biggest messes in the history of the
United States of America. Two wars and a collapsed economy, just to
mention a few. When Barack Obama was running for President he said
change wouldn't come easy and he would need help. So what have we done
to help him and cover his back? I ask this question because I've
watched the progressive community allow the Tea Party folks to own the
streets and take over the Town-Hall meetings during the spring, summer
and fall of 2009. I was on the streets and at Town-Hall meetings to see
this first hand. Not only did I see it, Mike Watt and I shot photos and
videos of these events and Richard Dillon wrote about them eloquently.
With the state of the economy and the healthcare fight, Republicans all over the airwaves see themselves as poised to make huge gains in the House and Senate late next year in the mid-term elections. However, here in the real world, a place that seemingly does not exist in the Republican mindset the numbers may tell a different story. While President Obama and the Congress have lost some of their shine and popularity, it appears as if the American people simply despise the Republican Party, their leaders and tactics.
