I would like to thank the Republican Party on a fight well fought...But

Indeed....not all of us are paid to 'spread the word'.
Go fuck off with your blood money.

Today I am being paid in sunshine...Look

[link to www.sungazette.com]

Typical lib, people are living in sewers, soldiers are dying because Obama wants cheap opium.

But it's all good, as long as you have toys and a paycheck. Must be nice to have a jeep and ATV.

Why don't you give up your toys to help a homeless family living in an obamaville?

Go fuck yourself commie!

I donate to the United Way every paycheck...Good enough?

No. That's a cop out. Like your withholding. You don't see it. They(United Way has a nifty way of coopting employers to have fundraising drives and make it easy to top paychecks to make that thermometer over there on the wall rise to meet this years 'goal'. They have a huge amount of red tape and pay the to officers mucho dinero.

Do you even know what they do with your money? They do good, don't get me wrong. I feel you aren't doing this with heart, or you'd probably target your giving a little better to a local charity or cause.

Bob, thanks for your charity; more people should, but consider keeping it closer to home and something you truly care about.

(now tell me I am wrong...I could be! and you voluteer at a UW food kitchen on Saturdays.)

No I do not volunteer...Have thought bout it jus run out of time...One year my family donated to charities in each others names as Christmas presents...It was the best Christmas ever

Good on you Bob. I love the sound of whining Conservatives. Reminds me what a desperate bunch they really are.

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That takes all the stress out of gift giving don't it'! Our family does that, to some extent. G'parents and grown kids do that, but the youngsters still get toys and fun stuff. My G'mom still gives to the National Geographic Society for me. I can't get her to stop it! :~) I have 5 lifetime subscriptions to the rag.

I always help out the March of Dimes. They saved my life by providing a surgery when I was born. (proof that gov't healthcare isn't needed.)

Oh, good because you are going to be hearing it for many, many years to come as 35 states are in various stages of protesting this monster bill even as we speak.

They are basing this on the various aspects of the bill that are totally illegal, immoral and impossible such as the unfunded mandate for the states to take all these people as medicaid patients so it doesn't show the true cost of this scheme.

My state is enacting a law making it illegal for our citizens to even participate in any scheme related to healthcare, lol.

It's going to be tied up in court forever more.

Glad you are going to enjoy hearing about each and every one of these suits and many more to come as they work their way all the way up to the SCOTUS.

+100

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Yes,
Desperate, whiny and partisan to the extreme (bipartisanship be damned has been the Republican's policy) some are really corrupt. The apparent kingpin of the opposion to President Obama in all things: Mitch McConnell

Allegations of corruption
In its 2009 report, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) named McConnell one of the 15 most corrupt members of Congress, stating that "Sen. McConnell's ethics issues stem primarily from (1) earmarks he inserted into legislation for clients of his former chief of staff in exchange for campaign contributions and (2) the misuse of his nonprofit McConnell Center for Political Leadership at the University of Louisville."[19] McConnell was also included in the group's report in 2007 and 2008.[19]
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Joe Conason, excerpts of article:
Allegations of corruption
In its 2009 report, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) named McConnell one of the 15 most corrupt members of Congress, stating that "Sen. McConnell's ethics issues stem primarily from (1) earmarks he inserted into legislation for clients of his former chief of staff in exchange for campaign contributions and (2) the misuse of his nonprofit McConnell Center for Political Leadership at the University of Louisville."[19] McConnell was also included in the group's report in 2007 and 2008.[19]
[link to www.nationaljournal.com]
The House Ethics Committee is far from concluding its investigation of Rep. Charles Rangel, despite his resignation from the Ways and Means chairmanship, as the Republicans will no doubt remind everyone repeatedly in the months ahead.
………….When ranting on about Rangel, however, what the Republicans surely won't mention is that he's not alone in questionable fundraising for a vanity academic institution that bears his name. Leaders on both sides of Capitol Hill have done likewise for years -- notably including the odious Trent Lott -- but the most troubling example is none other than Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who now holds Lott's former post. If the term "Senate Ethics Committee" weren't an oxymoron, he would be enduring an intense investigation, too.
McConnell is a graduate of the University of Louisville, a place of higher learning that he is seeking to transform into a display case for his limitless narcissism (as well as that of his wife, former Bush Labor Secretary Elaine Chao). Lots of nice things at the university are named after him, but above all there is the McConnell Center for Political Leadership, a special program much like the Rangel Center at CCNY. In such places, young and idealistic scholars are introduced to the tradition of public service represented by these great men, etc.
According to Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which has named both Rangel and McConnell to its annual lists of the "most corrupt" legislators, the list of donors to the McConnell Center was kept hidden by university administrators. When the Louisville Courier-Journal sued to obtain the names of those donors, the Kentucky Supreme Court handed down a curious decision. Future donors to the center would have to be revealed, the court ruled in August 2008, but 62 past donors could remain anonymous.
But thanks to the newspaper's diligent reporting, names of several of the bigger donors have emerged over the past several years. They include Toyota, which gave $833,000 to the McConnell Center and considers the Kentucky senator among its main Washington assets during its current crisis; RJ Reynolds and Phillip Morris, which gave $150,000 and $450,000, respectively, and which know they can count on him as a staunch backer of tobacco interests; and Yum Inc., the huge KFC/Pizza Hut/Taco Bell franchiser and a $250,000 donor, whose management was surely pleased when McConnell sponsored a special-interest bill protecting the fast-food industry against lawsuits alleging that their products cause obesity, heart disease and diabetes.
Yet of all the dubious donors to the McConnell Center, the worst smell emanates from BAE Systems, the British-based defense firm that just settled a years-long, transatlantic bribery investigation last month by paying a record $450 million fine negotiated by prosecutors in London and Washington. BAE subsidiary United Defense Industries gave $500,000 to the McConnell Center because, as a spokesman proudly explained to the Courier-Journal, "We have a very good relationship with Senator McConnell. We appreciate all he's done for our company and our employees in Louisville."
What has he done for BAE? In the fall of 2007, to cite just one notorious instance, he secured three earmarks worth $25 million for the firm in the defense appropriations bill for programs that the Pentagon had not requested. By then, everyone knew that BAE was crooked and under investigation by the Justice Department, but McConnell continued to perform favors for the company and accept donations from its political action committee.
"Most politicians decide that a scandal is a good time to stop doing business with a company, at least until the scandal is over," remarked CREW executive director Melanie Sloan at the time. "Particularly when we're talking about a criminal investigation over bribery. You would think that a member of Congress would want to steer clear of anyone accused of bribery."
Unless you're Mitch McConnell, that is, who can rely on his fellow senators to do nothing about his corrupt earmarking -- and on the mainstream media, whose deep thinkers will swoon over Rangel's wrongdoing while McConnell's trespasses are simply never mentioned.
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