GOP idiocy continues. 29 of them vote against coverage of autism in TRICARE

[Mass]

(and they care about military families???) It passed, though, 66 to 29.

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=112&session=2&vote=00211

Alexander (R-TN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Blunt (R-MO)
Boozman (R-AR)
Burr (R-NC)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Johanns (R-NE)
Johnson (R-WI)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lee (R-UT)
McCain (R-AZ)
Nelson (D-NE)
Paul (R-KY)
Portman (R-OH)
Risch (R-ID)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Toomey (R-PA)
Vitter (R-LA)
Wicker (R-MS)

[janlyn]

1. Pisses me OFF!!!

As an Autistic,this really PISSES ME OFF!!!!

Not that I am all that surprised that Mr. "SHITSTAIN" Boozman voted against it!!!

I have seen the man act up in public...so his thoughts on what I am sure he considers the "MASSES" are no surprise !!!

[freshwest]

2. Compassionate Conservatism at work again. Thanks for nothing.

[LeftInTX]

3. I'm glad it passed. What does the GOP expect military families to do?

[liberal_at_heart]

4. this is one of the reasons why people don't trust republicans on military issues anymore

Republicans use to have a stronghold on the military issue. Well now some democrats are more hawkish but more importantly people see through the lie. Republicans wave their patriotic flags around and like starting wars. But when it comes to helping veterans when they come home from war republicans say we can't afford it. Well someone needs to tell them the next time they want to start a war we can't afford it. If you can't afford to take care of the veterans when they come home from war then you can't afford to start a war.

[davidn3600]

5. Michael Savage said that Autism is a "fraud" so that gives you an idea of the far-right's mentality

Michael Savage from July 16, 2008:

SAVAGE: Now, you want me to tell you my opinion on autism, since I'm not talking about autism? A fraud, a racket. For a long while, we were hearing that every minority child had asthma. Why did they sudden -- why was there an asthma epidemic amongst minority children? Because I'll tell you why: The children got extra welfare if they were disabled, and they got extra help in school. It was a money racket. Everyone went in and was told [fake cough], "When the nurse looks at you, you go [fake cough], 'I don't know, the dust got me.' " See, everyone had asthma from the minority community. That was number one.

Now, the illness du jour is autism. You know what autism is? I'll tell you what autism is. In 99 percent of the cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out. That's what autism is.

What do you mean they scream and they're silent? They don't have a father around to tell them, "Don't act like a moron. You'll get nowhere in life. Stop acting like a putz. Straighten up. Act like a man. Don't sit there crying and screaming, idiot."

Autism -- everybody has an illness. If I behaved like a fool, my father called me a fool. And he said to me, "Don't behave like a fool." The worst thing he said -- "Don't behave like a fool. Don't be anybody's dummy. Don't sound like an idiot. Don't act like a girl. Don't cry." That's what I was raised with. That's what you should raise your children with. Stop with the sensitivity training. You're turning your son into a girl, and you're turning your nation into a nation of losers and beaten men. That's why we have the politicians we have.

http://mediamatters.org/research/2008/07/17/savage-on-autism-a-fraud-a-racket-in-99-percent/144072


Now that is one hate-filled, angry little man.

[liberal_at_heart]

6. ah, so he was abused. that explains it.

Doesn't excuse it. Certainly doesn't excuse advocating abuse, but it does explain it.