Are you outraged yet?

[Tennessee Gal]

[HopeHoops]

1. Outraged, yes. Voting Republican, no.

[Tennessee Gal]

2. Please take this and share it with anyone you know who might be

voting Republican.

This disgusting vote today should be very offensive to anyone who supports veterans.

[HopeHoops]

3. I can't comprehend how a veteran would even consider voting for rMoney.

[Tennessee Gal]

4. Agreed, but there are people out there who think

Republicans are strong supporters of veterans.

This vote today proves otherwise.

[liberal N proud]

5. Been outraged at these obstructionist for years.

Has the Turtle made any statement regarding this display of treason?

[corkhead]

6. I like it, but I take issue with one of the points. It only takes 51 votes to pass the senate

unless Republicon's block passage with a filibuster and it takes 60 votes to override that filibuster.

[Tennessee Gal]

7. That is what they did.

Republicans block vote on veterans jobs bill

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/19/veteran-benefits-bill-heads-to-vote-as-democrats-plead-for-end-to-gop-block/

[Sekhmets Daughter]

12. Republicans used a "procedural objection"

to block passage....Procedural objections require 60 votes to overcome...Jeff Sessions of Alabama raised the objection. Is there anything is the world more despicable than these republicans? I bet if Obama came out against pedophiles, they would rush to make pedophilia legal.

[jillan]

8. One of the guys from Vote Vets was on Ed's show. What he is outraged about is all the anti-Muslim

comments coming out of the gop.

He was saying that our troops are over there, trying to train these Muslims to take over for our troops, but all of these comments are infuriating them.

It literally made me SICK!

Here they are blaming the President for what is happening in the ME and the GOP is working against our troops!

[spanone]

9. k&r...

[Martin Eden]

10. I hope the Dems use this to defeat every rethug who voted against it. n/t

[diabeticman]

11. The PA Senator,Toomey, Who help write the bill than voted against it! S. O. B. !!!!!

[nanabugg]

13. Never forget those who voted against this and when they run again remember to vote against them. nt

[Tennessee Gal]

14. Looked for roll call, but cannot find it yet.

Found this:

The bill fell two votes short during a procedural motion, with every Senate Democrat backing the bill along with five Republican senators and two Independents joining them.

http://www.stripes.com/veterans-job-corps-bill-shelved-after-falling-short-in-senate-vote-1.189978

[Shitty Mitty]

15. Hell I've been outraged since '80.

I know a veteran who was against the jobs bill because it was "another handout"

[Barack_America]

16. So angry I can spit. Tears in my eyes when I think about it.

HOW.DARE.THEY!!

[doublethink]

17. ...

[Risen Demon]

18. As an active military man with a family,

FUCK YES, and HELL FUCKING NO.

[mick063]

19. Another example

of extreme filibuster abuse.

The 60 vote requirement will freeze America into political stagnation and collapse.


I'm calling on all DUers to put this filibuster abuse near the top of our political discourse.

Stop and ponder this:

If the Senate passes a bill, and the President says he will sign it, all eyes will be upon the House. All blame would be placed on the House. Our President's jobs bill would be put squarely on the House if not for filibuster abuse.

THIS IS WHERE WE NEED TO BE!!!!!!

And we would be there if not for filibuster abuse. I put it up there in equal importance to appointing Supreme Court Justices. This is how important the issue of filibuster abuse is. Certainly today should have convinced you of that.

[AsahinaKimi]

20. ITS MY HOPE that OBAMA will

BURY Romney so DEEP in a landslide, no ONE will remember who the hell ran against Obama three years from now.

[Grammy23]

21. Every American should be outraged and vocal about it!

I keep wondering if there is any way to charge these horrible people with treason. They are actively working AGAINST us the American people and this latest gut kick is to our veterans. How can they sleep at night knowing that they are working against the best interest of the people who elected them?

Since watching some of the secret tape of Romney and hearing him talk the way he did I have shed real tears to be confronted with the undeniable fact that this so-called "good man" has so little regard for his fellow man. He would leave the 47 % to die alone, hungry and cold. And apparently our Congress feels the same way about our military. God help us all.

The only thing that gives me one glimmer of hope is that this awful man and his just as awful sidekick are sinking lower in the polls every day. Their chances of being our leaders for the next four years get smaller every day. I hope that someone does get the goods on Romney so that just as soon as the election is over (AND BARACK WINS) he gets notified that he is being audited and will have to produce all of his tax documents for the past twenty years. He and Ann can do some splainin' to the IRS. Payback is hell.

The slime balls in Congress need their comeuppance, too. They need to be punished for what they have done (or should I say NOT DONE) for our veterans. Suggestions?