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For some reason Washington and Betty McCollum think the American people are stupid. They expect us to believe they could not find $34 billion to pay for extending unemployment benefits again. President Obama stressed the last time unemployment benefits were extended that is was not adding to our ever skyrocketing debt, what makes this time different? Has unemployment benefits become the newest welfare program? Should the unemployed be eligible for up to 125 weeks of benefits?
Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2010 - Vote Passed (271-152, 9 Not Voting) On Thursday, the House passed this bill to extend unemployment benefits through November 30, making the extension retroactive to June 2 when the last extension expired. It was then sent to the president, who signed it the same day.
Thanks to another pissed off MN CD 4 voter for finding this and sharing with me. THIS IS THE VIDEO BETTY DOESN'T WANT YOU TO SEE!!! Here it is obvious she intentionally OMITS "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance. At the time, her staffers claimed she took a breath...uhm, yeah that's it. Betty, here is what I think...due to the nature of the Bill before you, that somewhere in your liberal head you did this intentionally to make a point!!! We don't believe you!!!
What is really pathetic about this, is Betty was leading the House in the Pledge of Allegiance!!! This is on CSPAN!!! It's not like she was at her little desk in the back, or holding Nancy Pelosi's notepad, but she was leading the HOUSE in the Pleadge of Allegiance!!! Free speech is one thing, disrespect to your position, the Flag and the American people is another. Pathetic Betty, absolutely pathetic...Remember in November!!!
Did Betty intentionally omit "under God"? You decide...
In her best current practice of zip in, zip out, Fourth Congressional District visits, Betty organized a photo-op for Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Reps. Ellison and Oberstar to tout the planned $240 mil'n renovation of St. Paul's Union Depot as a regional transportation hub. With less than 24-hours advance notice, the June 26th event, which included a host of invited local dignitaries - mostly Democrats - was reported by Dave Orrick of the ST PAUL PIONEER PRESS.
As Dave Orrick related, uninvited dignitaries who staged their own event included Teresa Collett, Joel Demos and Chip Craven, Republican-endorsed candidates for Minnesota's 4th, 5th and 8th Congressional Districts respectively, who criticized their opponents' fiscal responsibilities as irresponsible. Only $130 mil'n of the $240 mil'n renovation cost has been committed.
Reps. Walz and Peterson were either not invited or missing in action; probably because they don't occupy Congressional seats considered safe for Democrats and feel that being too closely associated with Speaker Pelosi could be toxic to their re-election campaigns. In a self-congratulatory mood, the invited dignitaries - which included Ramsey County commissioners and local labor leaders - publicly traded comments and posed for photos with Speaker Pelosi. All for no purpose apparently, because none of the seven photos and illustrations published in the June 27th PIONEER PRESS coverage included the obligatory "grip and grin" with Speaker Pelosi or photos of invited dignitaries.
Re: You are a tool in the literal sense of the term.
Rep. McCollum:
When Members of Congress compare health care protesters and spending dissidents to ‘mass-murderers,’ ‘militias,’ or ‘extremists’ – in the hopes of scoring political points is like pouring gas on the fire of repression.
The Members of the House, Democrats and Republicans – have a duty and an obligation to end the dangerous name-calling that can only inspire the extremist media and your not-very-bright supporters who keep crashing planes into buildings, shooting professors, and beating people up in the streets.
Put another way, Rep. McCollum – I’m not saying you’re a totalitarian. I’m just saying that real totalitarians need lots of people like you running society to make their job easier.
“Only last month a Fox News commentator, with Members of Congress next to him, rallied a Tea Party crowd by disparaging Congress and calling the crowd ‘all these Tim McVeigh wannabes here’ to the crowds cheers and applause.
Rep. McCollum: certainly you – a member of a party who’s leading intellectual light is Jon Stewart – can’t tell me you don’t “get” satire and sarcasm?
“When Members of Congress compare health care legislation to ‘government tyranny,’ ‘socialism,’ or ‘totalitarianism’ – in the hopes of scoring political points is like pouring gas on the fire of extremism.
“The Members of this House Democrats and Republicans – have a duty and an obligation to end the dangerous name-calling that can only inspire the extremist militias and phony patriots.
“In the most free, prosperous and greatest democracy on earth it is time to return to a civil, decent debate of public policy.
“I don’t want another ‘Oklahoma City’ to ever take place again.
Dear Representative Idiot. You are comparing protesters to mass-murderers. When it comes to civil debate, you are the problem.
Civil debate will return to Washington when you are chased from office.
And lest you and your idiot enablers in the local leftymedia are still trolling looking for more “extremists”, I mean “chased from office this November”.
It appears that the Democrat Propaganda Ministry's gone into overdrive and our Rep. Betty McCollum, Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Senior Democrat Whip, is its simple tool. Her comments are insulting and demeaning to all American Conservatives and are no more representative of us than the factual historical record that Osama bin Laden and President Barack Obama both have friends who bombed the Pentagon.
McCollum warns against ‘anti-government extremists’
U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum's marked the 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing next week with a stinging rebuke of Tea Party movement rhetoric that she said could inspire another attack like the one that killed 168 people at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in 1995.
"When Members of Congress compare health care legislation to 'government tyranny,' 'socialism,' or 'totalitarianism' in hopes of scoring political points it’s like pouring gas on the fire of extremism," she said in a speech Tuesday on the House floor.
She also invoked the specter of racism in the growing number of hate groups recently described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as “driven largely by an angry backlash against non-white immigration… the economic meltdown, and the climb to power of an African American president.”
In what could easily be taken as a dig at fellow Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, a Republican heroine within Tea Party ranks, McCollum said “I implore my colleagues to temper their rhetoric and not allow the words of a member of Congress to ever be used by any violent militia or hate-filled phony patriots to cause violence.”
Invoking the name of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, McCollum said “I don’t ever want another ‘Oklahoma City’ to ever take place again.”
