{"id":2083,"date":"2010-06-30T02:39:12","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T09:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2083"},"modified":"2010-06-30T03:03:34","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T10:03:34","slug":"more-gop-compassion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/30\/more-gop-compassion\/","title":{"rendered":"More GOP Compassion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every day I become more convinced that conservative claims of compassion are lies.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Those patriotic Republicans are at it again. This morning, Patty Murray spoke on the floor, requesting unanimous consent to pass the Homelss [sic] Women Veterans and Homeless Veterans with Children Act. Mitch McConnell, on behalf of Tom Coburn, objected to the bill<\/strong>. Watch:<\/p>\n

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Murray’s office sent out this statement:<\/p>\n

\u201cI am deeply disappointed that Senate Republicans continued to put politics above people and blocked my bill that would provide support for homeless women veterans and their families,\u201d said Senator Patty Murray. \u201cThis is a bipartisan, common-sense bill that would support veterans in my home state of Washington and across the country. I am going to continue fighting for it to pass. And I urge Senate Republicans to end their obstruction and allow homeless women veterans across the country to get the support they have earned.\u201d<\/p>\n

Senator Murray\u2019s bill, S.1237, would expand assistance for homeless women veterans and homeless veterans with children and would increase funding and extend federal grant programs to address the unique challenges faced by these veterans.<\/p>\n

I guess these means they’ve abandoned the whole idea of compassionate conservatism<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Daily Kos<\/a>><\/p>\n

The GOP loves to mouth off about how they support the troops, but in GOP-speak, \u201csupport\u201d means \u201cUse as cannon fodder and abandon\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Every Republican in office is one Republican too many.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every day I become more convinced that conservative claims of compassion are lies. Those patriotic Republicans are at it again. This morning, Patty Murray spoke on the floor, requesting unanimous consent to pass the Homelss [sic] Women Veterans and Homeless Veterans with Children Act. Mitch McConnell, on behalf of Tom Coburn, objected to the bill. […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}