The Senate Stands for Injustice..Editorial NYTimes..

[Stuart G]

Editorial
The Senate Stands for Injustice
Published: December 9, 2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/10/opinion/10fri1.html?hp

. On one of the most shameful days in the modern history of the Senate, the Republican minority on Thursday prevented a vote to allow gay and lesbian soldiers to serve openly in the military of the United States. They chose to filibuster a vital defense bill because it also banned discrimination in the military ranks. And in an unrelated but no less callous move, they blocked consideration of help for tens of thousands of emergency workers and volunteers who became ill from the ground zero cleanup after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

The senators who stood in the way of these measures must answer to the thousands of gay and lesbian soldiers who must live a lie in order to serve, or drop out. They must answer to the civilians who will not serve their country when some Americans are banned from doing so for an absurd reason, and to the military leaders who all but pleaded with them to end this unjust policy. They must answer to the workers who thought they were aiding their country by cleaning up ground zero.

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Basically the Republicans held two bills hostage in order to get their tax bill passed..
Compensation for 9/11 workers..(something that has been worked on for years), and discrimination against gay and lesbian soldiers..
Every person in this country should know about this story.
.The Republicans stand for only one thing...greed..
That's it..

[bemildred]

1. Shameful seems to be the one thing our Congress really does well.

Who can forget the clever way the "Patriot Act" was slipped through.

[avaistheone1]

2. Yup.

The Patriot Act stinks to high heavens, along with Obama's porno scanners and genital gropings.