Jon Stewart had a different type of show last nite. He had 4 men, NYPD & FDNY, all very ill w/cancer. One of the men had stage 4 throat cancer, one had lung cancer. The discussion was re the bill that the Republicans turned down to help the 9/11 1st Responders w/insurance. Stewart showed tapes of the Republicans yesterday, Kyl (AZ) whining re "this is the 2nd most Christian holiday, blah, blah, blah" - because they have to work. They don't work all year, might as well now, at least they will have something to show for 2010! Then he showed a tape of Senate Minority Leader McConnell, shedding a tear
(Oh, no! We have another weeper!) because his friend Judd Gregg was retiring and he lunched w/him every day, or whatever! Then they turned down the bill that would help these 9/11 lst Responders w/insurance that I believe has expired! Then on Letterman he had Huckabee who agreed that they should have voted to help these people and then said he believed that it was only 2 Republicans that voted No. I thought about that and altho I am not that savvy when it comes to politics, I can add. There are 42 Republican Senators, and I believe there are 2 Independent (1 of whom always votes w/Dems and the other, Lieberman, who knows what he does!) which leaves 46 Democrat Senators. Well, if 40 Republicans voted yes, that would mean they would only need 20 Democrats to vote yes and that would give them the needed 60 votes. No, doesn't make sense. Whatever it is, they voted no to helping the 9/11 1st Reponders who are dying.
I leave you with that.
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