Comments on: GOP Blocks Heating Aid Increase For Poor

Angry Over Rejection Of Offshore Drilling, Senate Republicans Block Utility Assistance Bill

[siobama]

People Wake Up!

Republicans are trying to trick US again! They want to take away our land and water to give them to oil companies.

Republicans have lied about Iraq where they went for oil and because it did not work out, now they want to steal our land and give it to again oil companies.

This is an outrage...they are using our good and honest nature to steal from US our resources.

Of course they are lead by a man whose name is terrifying: CAIN. Remember the Bible? Well, we should be very clear of who and what we are getting into when we vote for a person called CAIN.

[tbweb]

The dreaded Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sells oil to the U.S. poor dirt cheap and our own GOP Republicans support turning their backs on U.S. poor for political posturing! What`s wrong with this picture?

[maverickgrn]

Has everyone forgotten that our continued reliance on fossil fuels is not just an energy/environmental issue, but a public health issue as well? What happened to clean (I mean breathable) air. The GOP are a bunch of killers. Pro-life my a**.

[steeepe]

Another reason to vote out the GOP. Those b*st*rds are only interested in their own wealth and business. They shouldn''t be representing middle class citizens. There should be more drilling all right, starting with the skulls of these idiots to find out if they have brains.

[siobama]

The Republican government is trying to give away our lands to Big Oil Corporations instead of protecting us and our land.

Oil coorporations already have enough land to exploit and explore. They have not used it in 30 years...and now they want more and more land for them.

This is robbery and the Republicans are allowing American to be robbed. Republicans are not patriotic, all they care about is their own pockets.

[oneworldusa]

Posted by WDrussell1 at 01:17 PM : Jul 26, 2008

-Much of the ''middle class'' ''working class'' is becoming America''s poorest, I''m afraid.

[lemonskink]

The amount of the subsidy is close to what is being spent on killing in Iraq in Bush''s war in just one week. I hope people pay attention to the Republicans who voted, and then take the necessary steps to remove them from office in the future.

[oneworldusa]

If Congress gets 6 weeks for vacation and other paid time off during the year, we all should.

[Marie Zarankevich]

Very nice! -- The poor, which includes most of the disabled, do not need to stay warm in winter? -- That is only for the wealthy? -- Encourage sustainable solutions, but do not do it with money saved with the lives of the unfortunate. -- For goodness sake, little kids can not go out and earn money for heating oil so they can continue living. -- Mistakes have been made, but there is no excuse for getting rid of those mistakes by killing them off in very small increments, freezing them out, starving them, denying them medical treatment. -- That is plain evil. -- Beware the GOP, folks. -- These issues are becoming dangerous to ALL of our health.

[erichsh]

Hmm... "wealth distribution", eh? C''mon, ddaryl1, why don''t you try to define that. Like confiscate any earnings over $200k/year? Flat-out: do you believe in the communist/socialist mantra of "take from the rich, give to the poor?" Seriously, how do you define "wealthy", and how much would you confiscate?

[erichsh]

Great headline - designed to get the libs in a tither. Buried in the article, though, are that it''s a procedural shell game by the democrats - switching a bill''s purpose - , and pelosi will hold the rest of the country''s business hostage by not passing any spending bills in congress during the summer. that part will get roundly ignored by the msm/libs.

[macusweil]

"To those posters who will attack my view point as "liberal"....I was a Republican.."

As if liberal is something bad and Republican is good?

Give me a break, the GOP focus on self-interest is about as un-American as it gets. Anyone promoting the common good is a positive, anyone promoting their own special interest is evil, period.

[macusweil]

"Republicans = We the Corporations" -ddaryl1

Government by the corporation for the corporation, preferably GOP owned and operated of course!

[deacon20081]

To those posters who will attack my view point as "liberal"....I was a Republican..

[ddaryl1]

its becoming more and more obvoius

Democrats = "We the People"

Republicans = "We the Corporations"

The poor in this country are about to become much poorer, and I''ve yet to hear one repub;lican actually try to address the problem of wealth distribution. With less and less money trickling down to the working classes and lower classes in the form of infrastrucutre and jobs with good pay and benefits the middle class will start to become poor, and those that already are poor will see what little they had get stretched even thinner with a whoile new generation joining the ranks.

C''mon republicans actually come up with one good idea that brings the strength back tothe working class instead of kissing the a sses of the wealthy and the corporations.

[deacon20081]

The Republicans and their financiers will be toasty warm and well fed.....even after they loose every seat in the House and Senate up for grabs in November.
"We will deprive those who need help this winter unless we get what we want"....typical.
The Strong Arm Tactics won''t work anylonger.

Just a note; Bush can not be prosecuted for cimes while still in office, impeachment of him and his appointees is the ONLY recourse available under law.
However after he leaves they are all fair game.
A Vote for a Republican will be a vote for Pardons
keep that in mind.

[wdrussell1]

Somebody has to pay for Bush''s warmongering.
GOP decides it should be America''s poorest.