Larry Craig surfaces in contentious Senate GI Bill debate.
By on May 14th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Larry Craig surfaces in contentious Senate GI Bill debate.
Huffington Post reports that Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) “quietly created presidential campaign ripples on Tuesday” when he “announced that he would offer an amendment to the forthcoming Iraq war supplemental that would strip the legislation of Sen. Jim Webb’s [D-VA] GI Bill.” Earlier today, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) also played politics with veterans’ benefits using the GI Bill as a “parliamentary gimmick” to kill first responder legislation.
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"quietly created presidential campaign ripples on Tuesday”..
How many toe taps does that require?
May 14th, 2008 at 7:53 pmDid he masturbate on Webb's version on the GI Bill? (Off the record, no transcript.)
May 14th, 2008 at 8:03 pmOooh, nice. Larry Craig shows his support for John McCain. Tell us how happy you are for his endorsement, John!
May 14th, 2008 at 8:07 pmNow that the bastard has "shown and told" he has the hots for the Military. The only "stripping" he knows is behind closed doors--preferrably the men's room doors.
May 14th, 2008 at 8:12 pmLarry is like the floater that just won't go down.
May 14th, 2008 at 8:17 pmAn he's not back in Utah digging potatoes for the state why?? Oh, that's right Utah has no potatoes..I guess Larry the Floater has nothing to do in Utah...He could always stalk Orin Hatch! HA!!
And the repugs continue to let this fool speak...LOL!
May 14th, 2008 at 8:21 pmwow, how retarded are these people? they couldnt find some other senator to help mccain out of his "i cant sign on to anything a democrat's involved in or right wing bloviators will eat me alive" predicament.
yes, please please lets put Craig and MCCain's name in the spotlight together as long as possible..
May 14th, 2008 at 8:25 pmWhy aren't the Democrats hammering the GOP which is supposed to support the troops? These Repugs are really repugnant.
May 14th, 2008 at 8:29 pmG00D_G0LLY Says:
Hey!
How was rehab, dude?
May 14th, 2008 at 8:39 pmDidn’t work. I’m still addicted to truth, justice and the American way.
Yeah, but the stuff you sell to feed the monkey isn't worth shit.
May 14th, 2008 at 8:41 pmYou love "the truth" so much, you cut it with shit, and then come here and try to sell it.
You're lucky some wingnut junkie hasn't shanked you by now.
May 14th, 2008 at 8:46 pmLets sing a song for the Crybaby, who's about to lose his leadership position.
How about "It's my party, and I'll cry if I Want To?"
May 14th, 2008 at 8:50 pmYou have a real obsession with scat.
Poor little bottle-fed baby; wouldn't last an hour out on the street.
May 14th, 2008 at 8:52 pmNice, but Pelosi is a “her” — at least she claims to be a “her.”
See what I mean? You couldn't resist cutting the truth about Boehner, with a little truth solvent.
May 14th, 2008 at 8:54 pmAnyway, it's good to know a junkie's "in the house," we'll be sure to check your pockets, from now on.
May 14th, 2008 at 8:58 pmIf one steps back a bit from the first wave of Returds that come flying by one is able to see the big bus under which all the lesser lights have been thrown to cover what chance the other rethugs have of re-election. The only GOPers on the front lines and in public view are the rejects, the retards, and rectals who have been named the sacrificial chickens. The really slimy repugs are sitting back waiting for McSame, McGraham, McLiarman, and the other perverts to draw attention away from them so they stand a slim chance of being re-elected. The Dems are three-for-three in taking away the available repub seats. Let us not be distracted by the scum-of-the-scum. Let us bring all our forces to bear and defeat all the Right-wing-nut Incumbents, put bushco (all of them) in jail, dismantle all bushco contractors and Nationalize ALL their assets (after all it was our money to begin with, and get along with our American life that has been stolen from us for the last 7 1/2 years. Down with rethugs! Long Live plain AMERICANS!
May 14th, 2008 at 9:04 pmHoly Cow! If you haven't seen it, watch the rerun of Olbermann - he had another special comment and he blasted Bush with both barrels.
May 14th, 2008 at 9:06 pmDidn't work. I'm still addicted to Lies, Injustice, and the Repuglican way ie; "Do as I say, not as I do."
May 14th, 2008 at 9:14 pmTheir! Gi_Gi, I fixed it for you.
G00D_G0LLY Says:
You know, the real goon_golly is lame enough, but a namejacked faux goon_golly? That's like imitation Velveeta.
May 14th, 2008 at 9:26 pmV for Velveeta! It ain't easy being cheesy.
The new GOOD GOLLY is more like "FUMUNDA CHEESE".
May 14th, 2008 at 9:31 pmG00D_G0LLY Says:
Didn’t work. I’m still addicted to truth, justice and the American way.
Yeah, sure.
YOU support TRAITORS like Bush and Cheney:
i.e., LIES, unequal "justice" CRONYISM and the Nazi/FASCIST way.
Just another LIE by you.
Which is why you support these TREASONOUS coxucker PUNKS, who deserve TRIAL, CONVICTION and EXECUTION for their TREASON.
May 14th, 2008 at 9:33 pmG00D_G0LLY Says:
Someone actually watches Olbermann?
Yeah, REAL Americans who like TRUTH for their news,
not Nazi/fascist PROPAGANDA like Fox and the other Murdoch LIES...
Obviously not a supporter of Bush/Cheney TREASON like YOU...
May 14th, 2008 at 9:35 pmHell isn't real.
May 14th, 2008 at 10:41 pmLooks like I need to write my Senator again. *sigh* I'll be so happy when he's spending more time
May 14th, 2008 at 10:44 pmat the airportwith the family.Finally, good gooney has given up all pretense of being polite, intelligent, or Christian. Finding a niche at ThinkProgress Watch tends to do that to acerebralists.
May 14th, 2008 at 10:47 pmZooey Says:
Finally, good gooney has given up all pretense of being polite, intelligent, or Christian. Finding a niche at ThinkProgress Watch tends to do that to acerebralists.
Naw, the real goon_golly is now mouseturd20. This is a familiar namejacking troll who doesn't have enough imagination to create a new screen name. You can smell the urine from here.
May 14th, 2008 at 10:55 pmLarry Craig's ammendment contained a provision that each soldier shall fondle his buttocks and perform special acts with their mouth on him in order to obtain their GI benefits.
May 14th, 2008 at 11:06 pmgummitch Says:
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Zooey Says:
Finally, good gooney has given up all pretense of being polite, intelligent, or Christian. Finding a niche at ThinkProgress Watch tends to do that to acerebralists.
Naw, the real goon_golly is now mouseturd20. This is a familiar namejacking troll who doesn’t have enough imagination to create a new screen name. You can smell the urine from here.
May 14th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Ah, I see.
Typical.
May 14th, 2008 at 11:08 pm> I’m still addicted to truth,
> justice and the American way.
You still taking it in suppository form? Or is that just your breath I smell?
May 15th, 2008 at 12:32 amBut of course, all of these actions by Republicans prove that they support the troops. Can't you see that? /snark off
May 15th, 2008 at 12:42 amThe core of filth in Wash. and its adherents remind me of the leaders of the 3rd Reich and theit followers who went to their graves humming the Horst Wessel song. These unforgiven did the same thing:took a good economy, a respected land and turned it ito sewage. An impossible expensive war, more without health insurance, forgotten environment, collapsed housing market, and an unregulazed shadow economy of complex derivatives, credit default swaps, and hedge funds that has more money in it than the stock market. A shadow economy based essentially on bets, and unregulated single handedly by Phil Graham, R, TX senator, who is McCain's econ. advisor. Jail 'm all!!
May 15th, 2008 at 1:02 amLarry Craig steps out of the shithouse to insult our Veterans - did some soldier object to his toe tapping dance in an airport?
Why do Republican hate our Military - except as photo props?
May 15th, 2008 at 1:05 amI'm still waiting for McCain to say that unless he's elected, they will take down the economy they have propped up.
May 15th, 2008 at 3:00 amI too wonder why the republicans refuse to support the troops they ahve put in harms way for their material good.
I hope the troops are getting just a bit of this news. For I fear they only get foxed.
You can bet the troops never got a bit of the Keith Oberman version of the bush treatment.
America supports the troops that Republicans don't.
May 15th, 2008 at 8:56 amGood Golly your attitude is typical of your party, instead working toward the good for men and women serving their country you would rather hurt them to hurt the other party. I thought the object of government was to help a country be strong and support their people who volunteered to protect.
May 15th, 2008 at 12:03 pmswan- Every parent of those serving lets our kids know exactly what is going on here.
May 15th, 2008 at 12:06 pmThe GOP is becoming a deadenders cult....two gay blades, Craig and McConnell stopping benefits for veterans...that'll play real well in the red states..in the old days back in 2003 this wouldn't get noticed....those days are over.
May 15th, 2008 at 5:55 pm