The Pukes won't pass anything to aid the poor unless there's provisions to start off-shore, and ANWR oil drilling. The fuckers cannot be happy unless they're fucking up something precious for the profits of their mothercheneying oil-company paymasters. Domenici's already losing his mind, but I hope he stays 'compos mentos' long enough to know he can't even wipe his own ass...Via RawStory
Five point one BILLION dollars??? To help those least able to help themselves get through the worst of the year's weather. Why, that's outrageous. For that money, the US Occupation of Iraq could be extended by over a WEEK.Senate Republicans block heating aid bill
Associated Press
Published: Sunday July 27, 2008
WASHINGTON - Republicans on Saturday blocked the Senate from considering a bill next week that would nearly double federal aid to help the poor pay heating and air-conditioning bills.
Although a dozen Senate Republicans support the measure, most voted with GOP leaders who would rather spend the time trumpeting their call to expand offshore oil drilling before Congress takes six weeks off for vacation and the presidential nominating conventions.
"The American resources on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts contain 14 billion barrels at a minimum ... more than we have imported from the Persian Gulf in the last 15 years," said Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M.
Democrats needed 60 votes to substitute the measure on heating and air-conditioning aid in place of the debate on an expansion of offshore drilling championed by President Bush and GOP presidential candidate John McCain. They got 50 votes Saturday, with 35 Republicans voting against changing the topic.
"Do we vote to keep the old, the sick and kids alive when the weather gets cold or very, very hot, or do we spend money on people who make huge campaign contributions? That is part of what this debate is about," said Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont.
The government is devoting $2.6 billion in subsidies for helping people with low incomes pay heating and air-conditioning bills this year. Sanders' bill would nearly double that to $5.1 billion.
While Senate Democrats said they hoped to pass it next week, Democrats in the House were looking at the popular subsidies for anchoring a second economic aid bill they want to push in September, closer to the November election.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is vehemently against letting the House vote on offshore drilling. She and Democratic leaders in the Senate also have shut down normal summer work on spending bills to prevent offshore drilling from getting a legislative footing in the appropriations committees.
As for Domenici, well, I guess you gotta understand he's only got a couple of months left in which to fatten the wallets and finance the yachts of his numerous benefactors in the energy and defense industries for which he's so studiously and assiduously carried buckets of runny legislative shit since Reagan, anyway.
Oh, and did I mention, I hope Pete Domenici forgets how to wipe his own ass?
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