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Palin speaks, man in crowd yells loudly, "YOU'RE AN IDIOT!"
Video at link:
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50157063n
"Palin lauds veterans, decries shutdown's monument closures"
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)gopiscrap
(23,763 posts)Emit
(11,213 posts)and Cruz too. The look on their faces ... awkward ...
But their brains are so mushed up they won't let it sink in and take it to heart.
flamingdem
(39,314 posts)We always like to call them idiots.
R. P. McMurphy
(835 posts)Being muttered at about 2:10 on the video.
Emit
(11,213 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)ErikJ
(6,335 posts)GOP Voted Against 7 Bills to Help Veterans since Obama took office
Here's the Bills in numerical order. In short, the GOP has voted TO NOT SUPPORT THE TROOPS at least 7 times. I think that is sufficient to call the GOP House Hypocrites and Phonies.
Bill's Blocked By Republican's Since President Obama Took Office.
David Gregory, John McCain, and the media aren't covering this story so we have to.
Here's a concise extraction for easy viewing for those who are INTERESTED IN VETERANS ISSUES and need to know which party supports veterans and which party does not.
The rejected Bills are named:
H.R. 466 Wounded Veteran Job Security Act became H. R. 2875.
H.R. 1168 -- Veterans Retraining Act
H.R. 1171 Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program Reauthorization
H.R. 1172 -- Requiring List on VA Website of Organizations Providing Scholarships for Veterans
H.R. 1293 -- Disabled Veterans Home Improvement and Structural Alteration Grant Increase Act of 2009
H.R. 1803 -- Veterans Business Center Act
H.R. 2352 Job Creation Through Entrepreneurship Act
DETAILS OF BILLS REJECTED BY REPUBLICANS:
H.R. 466 Wounded Veteran Job Security Act This bill would actually provide job security for veterans who are receiving medical treatment for injuries suffered while fighting in defense of their country. It would prohibit employers from terminating
employees who miss work while receiving treatment for a service-related disability.
H.R. 1168 -- Veterans Retraining Act This bill would provide for assistance to help veterans who are currently unemployed with their expenses while retraining for the current job market.
H.R. 1171 Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program Reauthorization This bill would reauthorize programs in support of homeless veterans, to assist them with job training, counseling, and placement services through the Department of Veterans Affairs through 2014.
H.R. 1172 -- Requiring List on VA Website of Organizations Providing Scholarships for Veterans which does nothing more than direct the Department of Veterans Affairs to include information about scholarships for veterans.
H.R. 1293 -- Disabled Veterans Home Improvement and Structural Alteration Grant Increase Act of 2009 Heresanother bill in support of those who have fought for their country, passed by House Democrats and blocked from becoming law by Republicans.
This would increase the amount paid by the VA to disabled veterans for necessary home structural improvements from $4,100 to $6,800 for those who are more than 50% disabled, and from $1,200 to $2,000 who are less than 50%, disabled. This means, if a veteran lost the use of his legs in service of his country, the country will pay for the wheelchair ramp so that he can live at home.
By the way, the last time this ceiling was lifted was in 1992. There isn't even a fiscal reason for being against this bill, as the total cost of this bill, according to CBO estimates, would be a whopping $20 million. That's about a quarter (25 cents) per family of four.
H.R. 1803 -- Veterans Business Center Act This bill would set up a Veterans Business Center program within the Small Business Administration, which would specialize in such programs as grants for service-disabled veterans, help them develop business plans and secure business opportunities. In other words, folks, it would create jobs and offer opportunities those who have fought in defense of our country.
H.R. 2352 Job Creation Through Entrepreneurship Act This bill essentially combines a number of other bills that Republicans had blocked in the Senate previously, and adds a few elements. The bill would again establish a Veterans Business Center Program; .... it would establish a Military Entrepreneurs Program; ...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/16/1091597/-GOP-Voted-Against-7-Bills-to-Help-Veterans-
Cha
(297,484 posts)MFs cause then GD SHUTDOWN and then get up there and fucking whine and accuse the President of doing it. Will somebody get the Hook!
thank goodness that man Yelled "You're an Idiot".. somebody sure as hell had to do it.
thanks Emit
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Bazinga!
ffr
(22,671 posts)Letting average people into their events produces a lot of really negative PR.
Shame. Shame. Sarah. The guy in the audience is right on several accounts, apparently.
Warpy
(111,317 posts)Cruz looks like somebody hasn't wound him up yet.
dballance
(5,756 posts)Well yes, Sarah. It is. I suspect the veterans would much rather have their VA Benefits offices open than a monument on the mall. But, hey, that's just me being logical and it doesn't make for as good TV though.
King_Klonopin
(1,306 posts)It is more important to complain about the lack of access to view
a hunk of granite than it is to provide actual support in the form
of VA service, which one poster has already shown is not a concern
of Palin's or the GOP's.
WHORE! WHORE! STUPID, VILE, POLITICAL WHORE!
MarchemintotheSea
(50 posts)Plenty of other pejoratives have been used to describe Sarah and I would gladly repeat them here but I think that may upset a few people if I did but they would be the most appropriate words to use.
Now my very mild mannered MIL, 85 years old, who will say shit from time to time but nothing more, calls Sarah a Stupid (Insert B Word) on a regular basis. But she is old so she get gets a pass, everyone past age 65 gets a pass as far as I am concerned, once one hits retirement age one should be able to say what they want to whom ever they want.