On Tom Coburn and GOP Senators Blocking Veterans Jobs Bill

Sen. Ron Johnson: Out-of-work veterans can go to hell

58 Yeas to 40 Nays means the Nays win in the U.S. Senate as Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson again votes with 39 other GOP senators to stop legislation easing the high unemployment veterans face. Johnson and GOP make a habit of obstruction of bills helping veterans.

Heather at Crooks and Liars has excellent commentary, reserving Sen. Tom Coburn (OK) for special opprobrium as the GOP again tells veterans to get lost.

"The unemployment rate for Iraq and Afghanistan-era Veterans (or Gulf War II-era Veterans) in August ticked up to 10.9 percent," notes a VA blog.

Jon Stewart nails it: "So once again, 800 billion dollars, unfunded, for war. A billion dollars, but paid for in a way you aren't crazy about to help the guys who fought the war get jobs afterwards, 'We're not made out of money people.'"

GOP Nuttiness Is Fun

Sign at April 2009 Tea Bagger rally in Madison, Wisconsin
became an iconic image of the corporate-backed and racist
Tea Party opposing black and brown Americans.
Photo is by Jesse Russell, first published on April 15, 2009
in The Lost Albatross.

Last April Jon Stewart, in one of the funniest moments of the campaign, asked Barack Obama: "Will you pull a bait-and-switch, sir, and enslave the white race? Is that your plan?" This April the Tea Party (uniformly white) whacks held signs reading: "Obama's Plan: White Slavery."

Even Jon Stewart can't make this stuff up. The GOP becomes wackier every single week. [Photo above by Jesse Russell.]

Jon on Sarah

Republicans are hypocrites and liars, but never say that out loud or even ask questions if you want to cover the presidential election on MSNBC.

Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert Blast Hillary

Great stuff from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, via everywhere now: