Mitch Being a Dick, Again!

[JackLuis]

WATCH: Jon Stewart shames Mitch McConnell for blocking 9/11 first responders healthcare bill

Former Daily Show host Jon Stewart let his frustration show on Thursday as he accused Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) of stonewalling a bill that would renew health care benefits for police and firefighters who responded to the 9/11 attacks.

Stewart pointed out that McConnell made a campaign ad spotlighting his support for a bill guaranteeing permanent healthcare for nuclear energy industry workers, which has cost $11 billion since going into effect. By comparison, the Zadroga Act, as the first responder bill is known, would would cost $4.6 billion.

“How in good conscience can you deny them the very thing that you have proudly brought to the people of your state?” Stewart asked, before telling reporters, “Please, personally ask him that.”

 

[phrodeau]

The Senate just passed a bill to repeal the ACA and defund Planned Parenthood.

Maybe someday they'll pass a bill to prohibit masturbating in the Capitol Building.

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[Sailor904]

Maybe someday they'll pass a bill to prohibit masturbating in the Capitol Building.


Great. Now that image is seared into my brain. Hell of a way to wake up.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Mitch is playing politics with a popular, bipartisan bill. Guilty as charged.

He'll attach the first responder bill to a bill Obama hates, to make Obama veto both. Or maybe force Obama to negotiate the stuff in the hated bill. Its how the game is played.

Cooperation is for loozers.

 

[JackLuis]

[B]Jon Stewart lambastes senators ‘hiding in their offices’ while denying health care to 9/11 responders[/B]

Stewart then took aim once again at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), reiterating his statement from a day earlier that McConnell boasted about providing care for nuclear workers and then pulled the Zadroga Act from a highway funding bill.

“The health care bill for them isn’t gonna cost a lot more money, ’cause there’s only a finite amount of these guys and they’re dying,” he argued, pointing toward a responder identified as John. “If [McConnell] wants to come out and explain that, I’d be happy to hear it. Thus far I have not heard an adequate answer.”

When Russert told him that critics of the Zadroga Act called it an “entitlement program,” an exasperated Stewart threw up his hands and said, “That’s insanity.” Shortly after that exchange, Mike stepped in.

“Let’s talk about what an entitlement is: a two-year term with a lifetime pension,” he told Russert. “Those who are on chemotherapy, those who are taking $30,000 a month in medication, that’s not an entitlement — that’s called f*cking living.”

 

[Iceprincess12]

[B]Jon Stewart lambastes senators ‘hiding in their offices’ while denying health care to 9/11 responders[/B]

Jon Stewart huh? Why don't we ask Caitlyn what she thinks

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[PoppingTom]

Cooperation is for loozers.

Sometimes, it's better to lose right than to win wrong.

 

[JackLuis]

Jon Stewart huh? Why don't we ask Caitlyn what she thinks

That is not Caitlyn, but I suppose your point was, why listen to a comedian when there are important people who disagree?

Jon is an American and as such has 1st Amendment rights, and can command the TV News cycle. Besides he's right to call out the Dicks in Congress.

 

[Comshaw]

Jon Stewart huh? Why don't we ask Caitlyn what she thinks

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Of course that's nothing like listening to and quoting a red neck peckerwood rocker that thinks he's a constitutional expert now is it?

Comshaw

 

[JackLuis]

Jon Stewart’s shaming campaign gets McConnell to promise passage of 9/11 responders bill

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) promised that a health care bill covering 9/11 first responders would be renewed in the wake of being criticized by former Daily Show host Jon Stewart, Politico reported.

“Everybody was for it,” McConnell said. “This is a worthwhile cause and we’ll take care of it.”

Stewart has spent most of the past week accusing McConnell of being the primary obstacle behind the renewal of the Zadroga Act, which covers medical expenses for New York City police and firefighters who responded to the attacks, going so far as to say that the senator reneged on a promise to include the proposal as part of a measure funding highway infrastructure.

McConnell said Stewart’s allegations were “not true,” arguing that the bill would be renewed before Congress leaves for its holiday break.

“We’re certainly going to finish, both that and the tax bill,” he said. “All of those discussions are continuing.”

I'll believe that when I see it funded.