Republicans Kill Bill to Prevent Child Marriage

[bigtree]

. . . you just can't make this stuff up fast enough.


____ In an act that Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) said "brought shame to Capitol Hill" last night, the House Republican leadership banded together at the last minute, and on purely specious grounds, to defeat a piece of legislation six years in the making aimed at preventing child marriage worldwide.

read more: http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2010/12/17/shameful-republicans-kill-bill-prevent-child-marriage

[SpiralHawk]

1. This is as perverse as the Republicon fetish for extramarital diaper sex with hookers

The Republicons' wide-stance 'family values' kinks are truly THE cesspool of perversity & degraded morality.

[gratuitous]

2. Now that they got what they wanted

The Republicans are all kinds of cooperative, aren't they?

[bigtree]

4. the only thing that really changes

. . . is the narrative of the pundits.

[TwilightGardener]

3. But of course.

[mrs_p]

5. i guess they just want to keep

all their options open.

assholes. :eyes:

[tsueboy10]

6. Vote not even close...

Vote count... 244-166... It sounds like plenty of Dems bit the weenie on this as well.

[RC]

7. "...world wide"? Which other countries voted for/against this?

None? I think I see a problem here.

[Rex]

8. Once again the GOPuker party destroys 'good' legislation.

I guess America really wants to fail and fall apart is the msg I get nowadays from what I read about our political system.

[Anakin Skywalker]

9. RepubliCONS need to please their "base", the Randy "as bad as I wanna be" Paul crowd!

[Vinca]

10. Hey . . . they don't want to upset the pedophile voters.