So Many Grinches This Holiday Season
They're everywhere this holiday season Christmas! Republican Grinches, I mean.
Student organizations from UNLV will be holding a rally against Governor Jim Grinch tomorrow, according Vegas Pundit.
WHAT: Rally against Gibbers' cuts to higher ed
WHERE: UNLV Amphitheater
WHEN: Thursday, Dec. 6, noon-1pm
And the other Grinch is Senator John Ensign Grinch, according to Americans United for Change:
Local moms, a pediatrician, a nurse and a veteran gathered outside Senator John Ensignâs office today to deliver a stack of empty presents and a special wish list for this Holiday season: that the Senator stop embracing President Bushâs backwards priorities of spending billions each week refereeing an endless civil war in Iraq while opposing a fraction of that for critical domestic priorities like education and healthcare for 10 million kids in need and for veterans returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan.
âI am a mother of four children without healthcare and it a disgrace that Senator Ensign is funding the War instead of Nevada âs Childrenâs health care. âsaid Las Vegas native Tami Johnson.
And local Vet Elliot Anderson addedâ Senator Ensign has been a Grinch. But this is not a movie and our Vets and Children are not Cindy Lou Who. For the past year Senator Ensign has votes to fund a deadbeat Iraq Government instead of programs we need here in Nevada â
On November 1st, without the support of Senator Ensign, the U.S. Senate passed the latest version bipartisan legislation overwhelmingly supported by 80 percent of the American public that would reauthorize and expand the State Childrenâs Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) for 10 millions kids in need, including 34,300 more kids in Nevada. The revised legislation came in response to the President's first veto of SCHIP and included strengthened language to address any and all of the Congressman/woman's concerns about illegal immigrants, adults and children from high-income families benefiting from the program. But even with these concerns effectively taken off the table, Senator Ensign still chose to once again stand with President Bush over the thousands of parents in his/her districts who go to bed every night praying their children don't get sick or hurt.
On November 7th, Ensign opposed legislation to fund critical national priorities included in the spending bill for the Department's of Labor, Health and Human Services and Education (click here for fact sheet), including investments for primary and secondary education, cancer and other critical disease research, Medicare and Medicaid, community hospitals, Pell Grants, worker safety and healthcare for veterans. Yet, just days later, on November 16th, Senator Ensign voted to once again give President Bush a blank check in Iraq by voting to obstruct the Orderly and Responsible Iraq Redeployment Appropriations Act, meaningful legislation that would begin the safe and responsible redeployment of U.S. forces out of harmâs way in Iraq.
"President Bush and Senator Ensign both need a visit from Dickens' Ghost of Christmas Future the way they've been treating millions of Tiny Tim's in need this holiday season," said Erin Bilbray-Kohn, of Americans United for Change, a leading partner in the Campaign to Save Children's Healthcare. "The same time President Bush was vetoing healthcare for 10 million kids, he was demanding that Congress provide nearly $200 billion more for his war policy in Iraq which has been an abysmal failure. How can continue to embrace Bush's backwards priorities of spending trillions of dollars policing an endless civil war in Iraq while opposing a fraction of that amount on healthcare for our most vulnerable citizens? The fact is, for the amount spent in just one week in Iraq , 800,000 children could get health insurance for an entire year. The needs of our children and other priorities here at home, like education and prescription drugs for seniors, have been shortchanged for far too long while Senator Ensign enables this President to spend billions and billions each week in Iraq . All we want for Christmas is Sen. Ensign to put Nevada families, not loyalty to Bush, first."
Such a relatively unpopulated state...so many grinchs!
Posted by: Desert Beacon | December 05, 2007 at 07:18 PM
The money class looks out for itself, and once they buy for a politician, they like him to stay bought.
Posted by: What?! | December 06, 2007 at 01:36 PM