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Jon Stewart Rips the 40 A-Hole GOP Senators Who Blocked Jobs for Veterans
Jon Stewart ripped the 40 Republican senators who blocked the Veterans Job Corps Act of 2012 that would have created jobs for vets. Stewart summed it up by calling them ‘a**holes.’
Video:
Stewart said,
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:
Alexander (R-TN)
Ayotte (R-NH)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Blunt (R-MO)
Boozman (R-AR)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coats (R-IN)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Johnson (R-WI)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lee (R-UT)
Lugar (R-IN)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Moran (R-KS)
Paul (R-KY)
Portman (R-OH)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rubio (R-FL)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Toomey (R-PA)
Vitter (R-LA)
Wicker (R-MS)
If you are like Jon Stewart, and believe that this is just a Senate issue, think again.
Seven of the Republican senators who voted against jobs for vets are also high profile Mitt Romney surrogates. Rob Portman, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, John McCain, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Lindsey Graham, and Kelly Ayotte all occupy high visibility positions in the Romney campaign, and they all voted against creating jobs for veterans.
The Republicans who voted against the bill claimed that it wasn’t paid for, but according to the bill’s author, Sen. Patty Murray, the $200 million per year cost was offset in the legislation.
Jon Stewart thought he was taking a break from talking about the election, but he actually gave veterans a look at what Mitt Romney has planned for them if he gets elected president. If veterans want to know how they would be treated by a potential Romney administration, they should pay attention to the priorities of his surrogates in the Senate.
Not only does Mitt Romney not mention vets, you can count on him to not keep our promise to them.
The 40 Republicans senators who voted against this bill are back home right now. If one of them represents you, go find them ask them to explain to you why they are opposed to funding jobs for veterans?
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14 Responses to Jon Stewart Rips the 40 A-Hole GOP Senators Who Blocked Jobs for Veterans
Tommys_girl
Oct. 25th, 2012 at 7:43 am
Thank you, Sarah, once again! I did my job here in TN by voting against them. Since I’m a Liberal trapped in a Red State, I doubt my vote will count for much, but it sure felt good to NOT give them my vote.
Eykis
Oct. 25th, 2012 at 12:23 pm
I’m in Tennessee as well. It is disgusting to always see your senators in the NO list. Pathetic. Vote Early in Tennessee – I did, straight yellow dog with the EXCEPTION of voting for the Dem Senate nominee – I voted third party rather than the white supremist – TN Dem Party dropped the ball on the Senate seat and we will be stuck with Corker.
Shiva (Moderator)
Oct. 25th, 2012 at 8:04 am
you certainly won’t hear Paul Ryan talking about the military except how he wants to build it up, create more soldiers who can be abused when their time of service is over.
not one Republican talks about the military and our military people who suffer through the aftermath of these wars. We need to put the onus on people like Lindsey Graham and John McCain to talk far more about the soldiers that they abuse so freely before they start talking about our need to constantly be at war every time somebody drops a pin around the world.
j
Oct. 25th, 2012 at 8:12 am
I hope everyone checks this out and spreads the news, this should have been a no brainer, we all agree with jobs for veterans, some of them even left jobs to go fight for the country – one thing is for sure, you will never see a Romney fighting for the country.
stenc
Oct. 25th, 2012 at 10:34 am
breaking news:
the new york post has endorsed mitt romney for president, calling him “the only choice”.
yeah, the only choice for those who have no respect for veterans, the elderly, children, the poor, women, or the middle class. those who support the rape-publican party.
typical rantings from the rag. who takes their shit seriously? there are actually people out there who don’t know murdoch and ailes own both the post and fox news. sad, uninformed electorate.
blergyblerg
Oct. 25th, 2012 at 11:54 am
Please refrain from using terms like Rape-publican and such. Trying to be clever by doing that makes you look silly. Leave the assaults on our language to republicans. Also, caps lock is not cruise-control for awesome. It may help you type faster, but it makes it appear as if you are yelling. These two things in your comment make us (liberals) look bad. Please stop it. We are better than that.
Joy
Oct. 25th, 2012 at 11:30 am
Romney had several Vietnam deferments while he protested for war and then ran to Paris as a missionary. I don’t know if many know but he was driving the car that killed a Mormon woman in an accident that had suspicious circumstances as to how it actually happened. Romney blamed a Catholic priest. At the time his father was running for President. None of Romney’s five sons have ever served in the US military. According to their mother, Ann Romney, they serve their missions. I can understand having a mission and not believing in war, but these people promote war for other people’s sons and daughters to die in. Ryan has never served but is a congressman voting against any money going to any deserving cause but promoting bigger and stronger military presence in the world! They really are genuine jerks and they do not serve the people. They serve their over lords and themselves.
Brandon
Oct. 25th, 2012 at 12:00 pm
I’m actually left leaning centrist and a Navy vet, and I don’t support this bill. I’d rather the money go into shoring up deficiencies in the GI bill (ie full tuition for online classes, gap coverage, etc).
Most of the stuff this bill would be spending money on would be inefficient and redundant resources that vets already have access to via local libraries, the internet, and the unemployment office(ie computers, career counselors, resume workshops, etc). Especially if it’s being run by a government entity.
1voice1vote
Oct. 25th, 2012 at 1:24 pm
IF you truly are a vet, I thank you for your contribution to my freedom.
I disagree with your Republican talking points. I ask you to consider your fellow veterans; those that would greatly benefit from a hand up in securing employment. Those men and women served us. It is our responsibility – our obligation – our duty – to support them now. It makes sense on every level.
H.R.5683 – Veterans’ Job Corps Act
To authorize the President to establish the Veterans’ Job Corps as a means of providing gainful employment to unemployed veterans and widows of veterans through the performance of useful public works, and for other purposes.
Brandon
Oct. 26th, 2012 at 4:46 am
I’m not a Republican , they aren’t republican talking points. Have you actually read the bill? The way the funds are allocated are poorly conceived, redundant, and wasteful. I have zero issues w/ allocating funds additional funds for veterans, as I’m a vet myself. I do have issue with the way these funds are allocated. There are better ways to spend this money to help veterans.
Seriously, for a bunch of liberals I could swear this forum is filled w/ Fox news fools who take everything at face value.
ScribeLynn
Oct. 26th, 2012 at 12:50 pm
I am a Navy Veteran also. I also agree with the possibility of screw ups and added legalese to the system that will actually render such programs inaccessible and unusable to many veterans. The whole “transfer of military jobs to civilian jobs” has been an issue for many, many years. Unfortunately, for most NCOs (especially) troops are only taught the bare necessities to do what needs to be done in any given point in time. Veterans are better served by taking care of immediate needs, i.e. not losing their homes, feeding/taking care of their families and such as that so they can THEN take the required certification courses and whatever else is needed to qualify for jobs. The veteran can do the job search themselves (they’re used to the bureaucracy & line waits), and can do it much better if they are not faced with the prospect of living on the streets.
harris stein
Oct. 25th, 2012 at 12:52 pm
The Romney-Ryan plan for the Department of Veterans Affairs is the same as the Romney-Ryan medicare plan. A book of stinking coupons. We don’t need no stinking coupons.
As a Vietnam Veteran I am appalled when I hear veterans talk the hard core republican talk. They don’t get it. The worn out platitudes of the cold war, “peace through strength” and “mutual assured destruction” have no place in today’s world. Our main threats are from small rogue states supplying global terrorists with nuclear materials, bio and chemical weapons to create havoc among democratic nations.
The old cold war myths die hard. Especally among the Bush2 neo cons that Romney has surrounded himself with. To them the military industrial complex is the perfect Keynesian economic policy only they won’t tell anybody that. They prefer to treat us like mushrooms. Keep us in the dark and feed us sterile bovine excrement.
Kitalaq
Oct. 25th, 2012 at 9:20 pm
Thanks for exposing the parties that showed lack of support for the people that need our national support. Especially those people that were willing to get our servicemen abroad in the false case of WMD.
OBAMA/BIDEN2012
Beaglemom
Oct. 26th, 2012 at 8:28 am
The GOP senators probably reacted the way they did to the bill because it had to do with “jobs.” Since January 2009 Republican members of Congress have reacted to the word “jobs,” except while campaigning of course, as if the word were a dreadful and extremely contagious disease, one to be voted against time and time again.