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![]() Remember way back in the day, President Obama delivered his Not Really The State Of The Union address, and the GOP trotted out Future Of The Republican Party Supra-Genius Bobbly Jindal to provide a rebuttal? Well, we all had some laughs, didn't we? Mainly because Jindal was all: "They want to spend stimulus money on volcano monitoring? Why everyone knows that the Hill Witch keeps tabs on our volcanoes by floating chicken bones in her own intestinal ichor!" And then Alaska's Mount Redoubt erupted, suggesting there might be something to this "let's monitor volcanoes with government-funded science" idea.
Well, as it turns out, volcano monitoring wasn't the only worthwhile public safety program that was deemed extravagant in the stimulus package, funding for pandemic preparation was axed as well. And playing a critical role was Susan Collins -- for whom the necessity of obtaining her vote is in inverse proportion to the intelligence she shows in policy making. Via The Nation: Famously, Maine Senator Collins, the supposedly moderate Republican who demanded cuts in health care spending in exchange for her support of a watered-down version of the stimulus, fumed about the pandemic funding: "Does it belong in this bill? Should we have $870 million in this bill No, we should not." Even now, Collins continues to use her official website to highlight the fact that she led the fight to strip the pandemic preparedness money out of the Senate's version of the stimulus measure. more... ![]() |
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Thanks for being with arse
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![]() aw..
perhaps they have all gone and offed themselves. haven't seen many around here for awhile? Nic? |
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![]() well you know, spending eight years trolling people for criticizing the president makes it kinda hard to start criticizing the president.
you can do it, but you'll look exactly like what you are. |
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flippin 'em off
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![]() Still got that case of headupyourassitis?
http://www.p2p-zone.com/underground/...ad.php?t=24782 Support from the old cheerleaders seems a little sparse nowdays.
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