and just a couple of quick thoughts here about what could have ended
and while water scandal as he ran and what
lessons we should take from this
uh... senator sanders was just on and he was talking about how the republican
party is basically a wholly owned by
very rich conservatives and corporate interests and then gather some very very
wealthy dresses to god bless them but
uh... in the admin babe i am a larger working for the benefit of all of us
have society where is the very rich conservatives seem to be working
exclusively for the interests of very wealthy conservatives
and
sitting i mean just consider some of these things
uh... the good the first
arcade the but together a list
apparel later it originated there parts of it originator repugnant post
uh... but uh... this this is a list those published in democratic
underground last friday and or exiting the thursday yesterday
and
john bainer
headset is recall two years ago when the in two thousand ten
when the republicans took control of the house server side is that they were
really focus like a laser on jobs
so what they do
what did the republicans who control the house representatives you can't you
can't bring up a piece of legislation without them
i mean that you know they'd
they control the agenda
something can't get to the floor of john bainer says no
delegates to the floor pieces yes
you know it passes if you know the democrats they were if fixing the
republicans who sees a s
so uh... thought the house representatives passed
forty six bills on abortion
a hundred and thirteen bills on religion
said heavier jobs mentioned yet member of the he said he's going to be laser
focused on jobs
hired thirteen bills are religion seventy three bills on family
relationships
thirty six bills on marriage
seventy two pieces of legislation seven issue bills on firearms
six hundred and for bills on taxation
four hundred and thirty seven pieces of legislation on government investigations
mostly republicans investigating the white house
there were thirty three at bills passed that would have d funded obama care now
they didn't
succeeded in getting the senate said
they didn't succeed but they thirty three times the truck
fifteen times it ready cut funding for pam planned parenthood
three times they try to cut funding for veterans administration hospitals
which is the only genuinely socialist medicine in the united states
medicare is not socialized medicine that single payer
veterans administrating the because you know medicare actually pays third
parties
but in the veterans administration but the a actually owns the hospitals and
doctors are employees of the government
it's socialized medicine is also
the most popular formats in the united states three times republicans had to
cut funding for the v_a_ hospitals
they failed
they did succeed in blocking a lot of things
that given my nephew india hurting mentioning about jobs at now okay
they there was a bill into a small businesses they blocked that
senators but democrats there was a a bill to extend unemployment benefits for
ninety nine weeks that blocked that
they blocked bank reform bills
allotment of some of these were in the senate actually some of these blocks for
most in the house
they blocked campaign finance reform and open contributions law
there were multiple job bills numerous job bills
the were blocked
by republicans allows representatives and republicans he's in the filibuster
the senate
there was a major infrastructure built was blocked
they blocked ending tax breaks for companies that outsource jobs
they blocked reform of wall street
they blocked legislation i might have cleaned up our energy situation if you
saw the article in today's new york times about how ireland has put a carbon
tax on everything that involves the use of carbon
and the consequence of that is that there were their homegrown when industry
has just exploded
their carbon footprint has shrunk
that that basically nobody has been hurt by this
and the country is far less dependent on foreign oil than they used to be
so what about you know you know really poor people at the drive to work they
give them actually credits for that you'd be give tax credits to them for
that to make up the difference
so current x is working great ireland now we can't have something like that
here
in fact the oil spill liability
we're going to increase their doors make oiled companies right now if they if
they
create you know no oil spill the does a lot of damage
after a certain point you and i pick up the bill
and we were gonna raise that that cap that limit
not not so much to public ans wouldn't do that
there was a bit of mine safety bill
after all those miners died now republicans blocked that
there was a bill that would have lowered the tax breaks that the oil companies
get knocked out a way with them just lowered them
base that block that
and there was a bill
to impose
charging them
they've been which they blocked
to charge market well cos unoiled taking out the gulf of mexico in other words
put at risk the sand bar mentally sensitive area we're gonna set aside
some money to protect it irradiated yeah
the number of true job bills that were allowed to come to the to the floor of
the house represents revolt last two years as republicans around the house
representatives
zero
now one
now during the two years that the democrats ran the house representatives
before the republicans to contrary
they passed and they got past the senate
the largest middle class tax cut in history
tbilisi of chrysler a bill to save g_m_
iterator doesn't monthly job losses in the gains increased education spending
they cut student loans by billions of dollars all of the story too high too
much
they strengthen hate crime laws they expanded the affordable care act
right past it actually
expanded the chips program children to have health insurance program
then they expanded enforcement of child labor laws
they did report reform wall street is called dodd frank they did reform credit
card practices his piece of it
they stopped predatory lending the soldiers made it illegal
is on the democrats were in control the two years before that with four years
ago
troops got paid for stop lost time
which was set him off to war in up in them people in that
they stop torture
they actually increased spending on the veterans administration which
presume lawyers why
in the previous in the following two years the last two years republicans try
to cut back
they changed the laws of the wedding conserve on submarines and also so that
women get equal pay with men
they passed a nuclear arms reduction
plan
and a nuclear waste disposal plan for those arms are due to dispose of the
nuclear
that the waste at the new the as they take these weapons apart
disposing of the pieces so that they can be used to rebuild nukes
they strengthen the e_p_a_ the environmental protection agency
they broaden the powers of the food and drug administration
they funded finally
ten years after nine eleven they fund of the democrats funded
the nine eleven responders health care program
and a repeal don't ask don't tell
democrats in charge alpaca dot
republicans duration and so much
for example
sever murder progresses reporting uh... uh...
that the most important bills blocked by republicans in twenty twelve minimum
wage increase
house democrats propose legislation in june that would raise the national
minimum wage to ten dollars an hour this is where i was in nineteen sixty
inflation us dollars
republicans blocked it
campaign finance transparency
called the disclose that
republicans blocked it
the buffet role
there is no notes active will ever pay less taxes than a secretary
and now they're voting twice
the employment non-discrimination act which would have
made it illegal to discriminate based on gender identity or sexual orientation
now the problem blocked it
and a trio u_n_ treaty to protect the equal rights of the disabled now the
republicans want
passes the car mart and
and now the republicans and democrats are getting there at the white house and
then try and figure out what to do at the end of the year here they've only
had fourteen months down the system in on