House GOP refuses jobs vote, but triples taxpayer funding to anti-gay lawyer

[Gerry]

Here's a headline (and story) that caught my attention this morning.

Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and House Speaker John Boehner began the week by deciding your priorities.

On Monday, Cantor told the press that he wouldn't allow a vote on Obama's American Jobs Act in the House of Representatives.

Meanwhile, as some 14 million Americans searched for work and wondered when Congress will get to work to pass a jobs bill, House Republican leaders sanctioned a $1.5 million tax cap increase (up from $500,00 in May) to Paul Clement, the lawyer hired by Speaker Boener to defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).

“It is absolutely unconscionable that Speaker Boehner is tripling the cost for his legal boondoggle to defend the indefensible Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA),” Drew Hammill, spokesman for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, said Tuesday in a news release.

The highly-controversial 1996 DOMA defines marriage as a legal union between one man and one woman. In February, Attorney General Eric Holder and President Obama determined that such definitions for federal purposes raises extensive constitutional issues, and refused any further defense of the act by the Justice Department.

In April, Bancroft PLLC lawyer Paul Clement was hired by House Speaker Boehner to represent Congress in defense of DOMA at $520 an hour.

“At a time when Americans are hurting and job creation should be the top priority, it just shows how out of touch House Republicans have become that they would spend up to $1.5 million dollars to defend discrimination in our country," Hammill added.

With the majority of Americans now in favor of same-sex marriage, with a growing number of states legalizing same-sex marriage, and with the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell now formally implemented, taxpayers wonder if job creation is really a priority in the Republican-led House.

Speaker Boehner has yet to comment publicly

[500,000]

I would not give one more penny to a Government that has from the start, that wants to (Fundamentally Change America) Obama and the Democrat Party have done nothing good for America, not one thing but spend money to fund his destruction of America.

Obama spends money to divide the country by race, gender and class. Obama and the Democrats are Supporting Non- American war parties.

DO NOT give the Obama administration one more US Dollar.

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I hope Obama gets impeached for Treason, every thing he has done needs to be taken back, everything.

[Gerry]

Not one thing.

Would you say that saving the big three automakers from total failure and collapse while preserving hundreds of thousands of jobs in the process that one thing?

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Besides, the article is not about Obama. It is about giving $1.5 million an attorney hired by the GOP to defend the anti-gay stanch in a time when gay marriage is accepted and approved by more and more states. As the article pointed out, what on earth are the GOP defending it from with the exception of invading the GOP? God forbid that someone in the congress or the GOP would turn out to be gay.

This looks silly...its like the hiring someone to protect the GOP from itself.

[500,000]

Did Obama fund the people that lost all the Stocks in GM and Chrysler?

O, I bet the investors were Middle Class.

GM sent, to my address about $1000.00 of Media supporting the Destruction Of America. The Fundamental Change Of America.

[Gerry]

No. But the Bush administration and the Paulson plan bailed out their brokerage firms (that managed those funds in peoples' retirement plans, 403b, 401k, Roth IRA's and private investors) 100% on the dollar as well as handed the banks billions of dollars in reserves. Those people you are referring to got nothing. If it was like my 401k/403b managed (formerly) by AIG, that same Bush/Paulson bailout plan pumped billions (that we know of) into AIG (remember the too big to fail mantra?) while my and my wife's fund dipped by as much as 75% at one point. I guess its because we (my wife and I and all the other working Americans were not too big to fail.

My, how quickly we forget some facts, eh?

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Again, this is the kind of message the GOP wants to send out? Especially going into an election year?

Vote NO on jobs but YES on discrimination against gays.

Wow, hell of a platform to run on.

[500,000]

1776

America, HOME OF THE BRAVE

After Obama: 2009

America, HOME OF THE SLAVES

[Gerry]

Well, now...that's a really cute slogan. Did you come up with that all by yourself? Or did you have some help.

[500,000]

No. But the Bush administration and the Paulson plan bailed out their brokerage firms (that managed those funds in peoples' retirement plans, 403b, 401k, Roth IRA's and private investors) 100% on the dollar as well as handed the banks billions of dollars in reserves. Those people you are referring to got nothing. If it was like my 401k/403b managed (formerly) by AIG, that same Bush/Paulson bailout plan pumped billions (that we know of) into AIG (remember the too big to fail mantra?) while my and my wife's fund dipped by as much as 75% at one point. I guess its because we (my wife and I and all the other working Americans were not too big to fail.

My, how quickly we forget some facts, eh?

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Again, this is the kind of message the GOP wants to send out? Especially going into an election year?

Vote NO on jobs but YES on discrimination against gays.

Wow, hell of a platform to run on.

Have you ever beem molested or tricked in to having sex by a same sex human?

The new (Gay Thing) Demoralizes the young and makes it easier to molest the young, for the young now think having same sex relations ships is the Normal Thing.

Same Sex relationships is like handing a Religious Group, guns to kill, or just one big focus point to kill Americans.

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Watch TV, and you think everyone has a Bone or a Juicy Puss Cat to ****.

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Well, now...that's a really cute slogan. Did you come up with that all by yourself? Or did you have some help.

It's the way I see it. I invented that slogan all by myself. Too many Taxes. America is in too much Debit and no Jobs, Thanks to Obama.

The Democrats have had control of more money then All US Presidents Combined.

Obama the Great, Destroyer of America.

[Gerry]

Nope. Don't plan to.

The point of all of this is...what the hell are the GOP defending? That marriage is between a man and a woman? Yea, we get that.

But what are the paying an attorney 1.5 million for? For defending marriage between a man and a woman?

Paying an attorney to defend marriage?

Hells bells...what's next. Pay someone to out all the homosexual congress people. Honestly, all this bullshit sounds like McCarthyism.

[500,000]

Nope. Don't plan to.

The point of all of this is...what the hell are the GOP defending? That marriage is between a man and a woman? Yea, we get that.

But what are the paying an attorney 1.5 million for? For defending marriage between a man and a woman?

Paying an attorney to defend marriage?

Hells bells...what's next. Pay someone to out all the homosexual congress people. Honestly, all this bullshit sounds like McCarthyism.

Only God and the Good Lord can Marry two (2) Humans, Marriage by God is the only way. Marriage by God, you get a Beautiful baby to raise like God intended or the Good Lord.

[Rocket2Uranus]

wow.

[Raider]

WOW is right, were all of sudden "concerned" about the 14 Million Americans who are out work, but we weren't the least bit concerned after Obama took office, were we?


Like Job Stimulus 1, that cost the tax payers nearly $800 BILLION Dollars and produced ZERO Private sector jobs and drove up the National unemployment rate over 2%, Job Stimulus II that Obama is pushing will be yet another FAILURE, another PAYOFF that wont produce a single job in the Private sector. Make no mistake about it, it's the Unions that are pushing for another stimulus.

Instead of $800 BILLION Dollars, Obama want's $447 BILLION.... But this time around the Republican House is going to have the final say in how the Bil is drafted, where the money goes and where the money is going to come from to pay for it... Democrats of course know this, they know their outnumbered, so their going to use any propaganda they can to push what they want in the Bill, like the bullshit argument of a Lawyer being paid to defend the Marriage Act.

If this is the best they can do, look for a good Bill to come out of the House and look for the Senate to block it.


You want to create jobs? start with repealing ObamaCare and pulling back on all the regulations Government has imposed on Businesses, And to restore confidence, I ask that the President resign, THEN we will have jobs.

[Gerry]

As a member of the Republican party, do I really have to have a law degree to qualify for a 1.5 million dollar payday to say that marriage is between a man and a woman?

Tell ya what...for half of that amount I'll be glad to make that same claim.

Congratulate me...I just saved 3/4 of a million dollars for Boehner to work on his tan.

[Bill F.]

Not one thing.

Would you say that saving the big three automakers from total failure and collapse while preserving hundreds of thousands of jobs in the process that one thing?

I would say he should face criminal charges for that. He took funds from preferred creditors and investors and gave ownerships to the unions (i.e. his political supporters). He also apparently took great pains to see that dealerships owned by registered Republicans were shut down, while (again) dealers who supported him were spared the axe. Is this acceptable behavior outside of Russia and other dictatorships?

On top of all this criminal activity, it's highly questionable whether he saved any jobs at all. That remains to be seen. Also, when people say he saved jobs, that presumed GM and Chrysler would simply board up shop and fire everybody. That wouldn't have happened. They would have been forced to sell off their less profitable ventures, which would have been bought by other (probably better managed) companies.

It's called creative destruction, and it's essential for a functioning free market. The government has taken away this essential thing at a massive cost to the public, and in a few years time it will be shown to be all for naught.

So far as Boehner's attorney and Obama's "jobs" plan (I think you are already aware that the gov't cannot create jobs), we're comparing billions to 1.5 million. Apples and oranges. By the way, I think the defense of marriage is none of Washington's business. It's just another area where the government is doing things it shouldn't while not doing what it should.

[Gerry]

So far as Boehner's attorney and Obama's "jobs" plan (I think you are already aware that the gov't cannot create jobs), we're comparing billions to 1.5 million. Apples and oranges. By the way, I think the defense of marriage is none of Washington's business. It's just another area where the government is doing things it shouldn't while not doing what it should.

Profoundly true.

The government can not create any jobs other than government jobs. Job creations come from corporations and businesses. Rather than create jobs, those jobs lost are never coming back (at least not en masse) and are now in Asia, Mexico, South America. And those same corporations are sitting on trillions in cash.

And, it is not the federal government's business to regulate sexual orientation or define marriage - with the only exception being estate issues and benefits. Still, that is up to the individual state and the individual business to recognize these unions and allow benefits for same sex couples.

[Raider]

Notice how the part about Obama taking funds from preferred creditors and investors and gave ownerships to the unions was completely ignored by Father Gerry,

And the part about dealerships owned by registered Republicans were shut down, while (again) dealers who supported him were spared the axe.

He asked if it was acceptable behavior, again NO Answer.