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He likes to complain

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Poor John Boehner just can’t catch a break.

When President Obama proposed the Affordable Care act that incorporated what had been proposed by the Heritage Foundation in 1989 and the Republicans in 1993, he was told the GOP would not support it if it contained the Individual Mandate that the earlier conservative plan contained, so he took it out.

The Act passed, and John Boehner was in charge of the House that would vote at least 50 times to repeal what the GOP had wanted until they got it.

If they couldn’t get the whole thing repealed, maybe the GOP could delay part of it. So after demanding the section about the employer mandate, and because the president wouldn’t just do away with the ACA, the GOP shut down the government until it became an embarrassment to have done so.

President Obama eventually delayed the employer mandate, and John Boehner instituted a law suit against the president for having done what the GOP had demanded, except he did it without them.
Soon after this the children coming over the border from Central America had gotten out of control, and, in spite of the need for the House to do something nothing was done, and John Boehner said the president could handle it on his own without the involvement of congress.

Congress went on vacation, the president said he would have to do something about this immigration problem on his own by executive order, and Mr. Boehner is now all upset that the president will be doing it on his own.

With all the events going on in Iraq with ISIS and the need to do something to help those people isolated on a mountain and being massacred by them, politicians have demanded something needed to be done, and so the president ordered airstrikes and humanitarian air drops.

“The president’s authorization of airstrikes is appropriate,” Boehner said, “but like many Americans, I am dismayed by the ongoing absence of a strategy for countering the grave threat ISIS poses to the region. Vital national interests are at stake, yet the White House has remained disengaged despite warnings from Iraqi leaders, Congress, and even members of its own administration. Such parochial thinking only emboldens the enemy and squanders the sacrifices Americans have made. The president needs a long-term strategy – one that defines success as completing our mission, not keeping political promises – and he needs to build the public and congressional support to sustain it. If the president is willing to put forward such a strategy, I am ready to listen and work with him.”

The United States is war wary, and many people know that if Maliki had allowed residual troops to have remained with certain protections so they could do their job, and had had a coalition government instead of locking people out of participation, ISIS would not first have had a complaint, and second the freedom to act on that complaint.

And, as the objective of being there was to help establish and support a sovereign nation, it would have been a violation of that to ignore the sovereignty of Iraq and force them to allow us to stay.

Obviously Maliki had an unrealistic image of his own reality.

So withdrawing in 2011 according to the timetable established by President Bush, and the missteps of Maliki were not the mistakes of Obama, but his honoring the strategy of a Republican president who must have had an exit strategy as we followed it as designed, and respecting a country’s sovereignty according to that plan.

Boehner meanwhile, while not offering a plan, demands that there be one.

But judging from past actions, no matter what plan is offered, the president would most likely get nothing more than opposition, obstruction, and blame for the result of that obstruction.

Even now, as the president has authorized airstrikes with no boots on the ground, and humanitarian air drops, the Speaker cannot say it is a beginning that needs to be assessed, he merely calls it a non-plan.

The only alternative plan that could be put into action is sending troops back.

I for one, and I did not agree with our being there in the first place, feel that we did what we set out to do, and just because Iraq enjoyed our troops doing their work with Maliki not doing what he should have done, we should not send troops back to die because of someone else’s foolish actions after our hard work.

Obviously Boehner seems to want boots on the ground so h can complain about that.

His insincerity is clear when it is remembered that the night before the airstrikes began there was a White House meeting for the leaders of the House and Senate, and, although invited, Boehner was a no-show.

 

Ann Colter confronts Father Damien

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Two doctors went to Africa to improve medical care for people there, and, being Christian missionaries to boot, spread the Good News while they were at it.

After having been exposed to it, Dr. Kent Brantly of Samaritan’s Purse and Nancy Writebol of Service in Mission contracted Ebola, and, being citizens of the United States, were brought home for treatment.

The born-again Christian queen Ann Colter was not too happy that American citizens came home from the “disease-ridden cesspool” that is Africa for medical treatment.

She wasn’t even all that happy that the two of them had chosen to do medical-missionary work there in the first place.

“If Dr. Brantly had practiced at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles and turned one single Hollywood power-broker to Christ, he would have done more good for the entire world than anything he could accomplish in a century spent in Liberia”.

Apparently the one soul of a Hollywood power-broker has more value than any number of Liberians.

Christians, whom she has preyed upon for years because they willingly bought the invective she threw out about people they didn’t like have objected to her now that she spoke against their own.

Remember how it was in the early days of the AIDS pandemic when they thought it only affected Gay men so it was pretty much okay to ignore it and those who got it.

Then it was discovered that the virus actually respected no sexual orientation.

Christians got it. Christians found compassion.

Remember when the Westboro Baptist Church picketed the funerals of people who died of AIDS, and it was okay?

But then they spread their hate to picketing funerals of military men, and then it suddenly became a bad thing.

Well, this is sort of like that.

Whatever Ann Colter said about certain people, no matter how untrue, was perfectly fine. But, now she went after two of their own, and she is bad now.

Susan M. Grant, the head nurse where the missionaries were taken to in Atlanta, asserted that Americans will benefit from what is learned by treating the patients.

“These Americans generously went to Africa on a humanitarian mission to help eradicate a disease that is especially deadly in countries without our health-care infrastructure. They deserve the same selflessness from us. To refuse to care for these professionals would raise enormous questions about the ethical foundation of our profession.”

I am sure the religious community will now go after Colter, as they will Donald Trump who tweeted:
“Ebola patient will be brought to the U.S. in a few days – now I know for sure that our leaders are incompetent. KEEP THEM OUT OF HERE!”
“Stop the EBOLA patients from entering the U.S. Treat them, at the highest level, over there. THE UNITED STATES HAS ENOUGH PROBLEMS!”
“The U.S. cannot allow EBOLA infected people back. People that go to far away places to help out are great-but must suffer the consequences!”,
and Dr. Ben Carson, another favorite of the conservatives and the religious right, and who went after President Obama at the 2013 National Prayer Breakfast, who said it was a mistake to bring the missionaries home when doctors could have flown to Liberia to treat them.

Once again situational ethics will trump religious conviction, and what was okay when applied to others will be condemned when applied to themselves.

Perhaps, as crude as she actually was with her heartless remarks, Ann Colter may be instrumental in exposing the hypocrisy of the religious people who need a good examination of conscience to see how their heartless remarks about others have been as hurtful.

This should sound familiar to many

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This sort of thinking might sound awfully familiar to people.

Ever vigilant to find something they can claim is God’s punishment against (name of a group), or God’s punishment for (name something you don’t like), religious radicals love a good disease.

Rick Wiles is the host of Trunews, which claims on its website to be “the world’s leading news source that reports, analyzes, and comments on global events and trends with a conservative, orthodox Christian worldview. Our vision is to build a global news network that provides a credible source for worldnews, events, and trends while giving respect and honor to Christians of all major denominations – Evangelical, Orthodox, Anglican, Catholic, and Protestant. We believe Christians need and deserve their own global news network to keep the worldwide Church informed, and to offer Christians a positive alternative to the anti-Christian bigotry of the mainstream news media”.

He is also a big fan of the “End Times”.

As part of his being a “global news network that provides a credible source for world news”, and his desire to “offer Christians a positive alternative to the anti-Christian bigotry of the mainstream news media”, he recently reported that a possible outbreak of Ebola in the United States “could solve America’s problems with atheism, homosexuality, sexual promiscuity, pornography and abortion.”

He also stated that, “If Ebola becomes a global plague, you better make sure the blood of Jesus is upon you, you better make sure you have been marked by the angels so that you are protected by God. If not, you may be a candidate to meet the Grim Reaper.”

So once again we have a religious guy claiming a plague is yet another punishment from God directed at certain people of which, of course, he is not one.

Sound familiar?

Now we will just have to wait and see who else jumps onto this and promotes this idea.

One person we will not have to hear from is Jerry Falwell.

He’s dead, a victim of the Grim Reaper, which I guess means the blood of Jesus wasn’t upon him, he wasn’t marked by the angels, or he wasn’t protected by God.

Or did Mr. Wiles simply choose to ignore the reality that everyone faces the Grim Reaper eventually?

But, unlike the last time, though, when the AIDS pandemic was solely on the shoulders of Gay men, we get to share the blame for this outbreak with President Obama.

According to Wiles, Obama may intentionally require that all Americans get an ineffective vaccine to spread the disease so he will have the excuse to force citizens into those FEMA camps the far-right has been saying he has wanted to do for the last 6 years.

“Obama would claim executive powers to mandate that every human being in the United States be vaccinated. They could use the panic to stampede hundreds of millions of people in this country to be vaccinated, in fact billions worldwide, they could stampede the world to receive a vaccine against a deadly virus and nobody knows what is in the vaccine.”

So get the note pads out and take note of where this idea goes from here.

They are going crazy to justify themselves

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It should not have been all that much of a surprise that when facilities were needed to potentially house the thousands of kids coming across the border from Central America, military bases, especially those that were semi-closed, were a logical location.

They had housing for many and were in  confined, fenced in areas, and this was a national situation.

Here on Cape Cod there is the old Otis Air Force base now referred to as Joint Base Cape Cod owned by the feds with a residential area named Camp Edwards.

Obviously as the federal government was putting together a plan, the governors of those states with useful bases would be informed, even if, as time went on, those bases would not be needed.

But, as seems to be the way things go these days, before any facts were known and any assessment done, people and the politicians who use them, came up with their own “facts”,  and spoke and acted against them.

Even when the real facts were presented, they were ignored, and people clung to what they wanted the facts to be.

The base on Cape Cod will not be used, and the sky did not fall. All the objections to housing the kids are now moot, and not using the base would have happened because of shifting conditions with or without objections and derogatory references.

People said and wrote some pretty nasty things about the kids, about the governor, about the president which in the end were a waste of time.

And, they were wrong.

Now begins the search for the justification for what they said, and the search for new and old things to go on about to distract from their most recent words and behavior.

Articles and blogs in the Cape Cod publication for which I do work, that dealt with how wrong people had been about what they assumed was going to happen and the things they just knew were the way things were, are now followed by those same people writing comments slightly acknowledging their mistakes, but vociferously declaring the “Yeah, Buts”.

The verbal gymnastics are very entertaining

The perfect test?

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Evangelicals are thrilled with the actions between Israel and Gaza, as any Middle East war could be the beginning of the end times, and they are convinced that when Jesus comes back, they will be in a good position.

That could help explain the most conservative wing of the GOP’s support of Israel and its interest in wars in the Middle East.

But, although their wars presage the “End Times” belief may not be the universal Christian belief, the belief that Jesus is coming back, is.

In Matthew 24: 36-44 it says, “But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only. For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. Then two men will be in the field; one will be taken and one left. Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken and one left. Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect”.

Now, while Jesus said his arrival would be quiet,  there are those who claim there will be trumpets, white horses, and fantastic cloud formations.

But if you have the words from the source, all other embellishments are just that, personal embellishments.

After all, what thief announces his arrival with a lot of “shock and awe”?

Then there was this exchange in Matthew 25:40,

“When did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?’. “The King will answer and say to them, ‘Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me. Then He will also say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels;…”

So here we have Jesus saying that when he comes back it will be at an unknown time under quiet circumstances, and that we should be kind to even the most unfortunate person because it could be Him.

So I wonder.

What if among the children coming from Central America facing some very unchristian reactions from the faithful, there is one very quiet and unassuming kid who is actually a little more than what He appears to be?

Wouldn’t that be something.

The perfect test.

Who does the Senate represent?

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So for the last several years the Senate has been able to get very little work done because by using the filibuster, even if the majority voted in favor of something, it would not pass without super majority of 60 votes.

Beginning in 2009 the Republican minority did everything to ensure that President Obama was a one term president by obstructing any program he promoted, even if it had been something the Republicans wanted until he had proposed it or expressed any support for it.

When he got reelected the original plan had to be abandoned, and guilt by association became the best way to retake the executive and legislative branches.

So obstruction continues as does the inactivity, and nothing is getting done for the people of the United States.

Although many sided with an inactive congress supporting their lack of doing what needed to be done for the American people and veterans by cutting unemployment insurance, food assistance and training programs for veterans and their families, cutting food programs in schools for poor kids, and such, they then yelled that these are the things we should be doing first for our own before we help the kids fleeing from Central America.

So it will be interesting now to see how these same people feel toward the Senate now that the last piece of business that the Senate got done Friday before going on recess had nothing to do with taking care of our own, but, instead, passing $225 million in funding for Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system.

They couldn’t get things done, and they certainly could not get a unanimous vote on anything for us, but, the senate had no problem doing that when it came to Israel.

The Highway Trust Fund they voted for is temporary.

The GOP filibustered the alternative border crisis bill that would have provided $2.7 billion to provide additional border security and humanitarian relief to refugee children.

They opposed fighting wildfires in the West because it would cost money.

Complaining that the Democrats in the senate opposed their use of the filibuster, they used a filibuster to prevent the appointment of the ambassador to Guatemala, one of the countries from which those unwanted children are fleeing

Everything else is on hold until after the recess.

Everything, that is, except Israel.

“This is a good example of us being able to put aside partisan considerations and work together to help our good friend, Israel,” said Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

“I will stand by Israel for a lot of personal reasons but certainly for political reasons. And I have no hesitation in declaring to the world that’s how I feel,” said Senate Majority Leader Harry.

“As dysfunctional as the Congress has been, this is one of our finer moments. We’re about to leave here soon with a lot of work undone. But let it be said what we did have the foresight and the ability — and quite frankly the moral decency — to end on a positive note”, was how Lindsey Graham put it.

Overjoyed with themselves for their act of unity in helping another country without any reservations, Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, and John McCain all shook hands after the vote.

Imagine, helping a foreign country is the senate’s “finest moment” when such a moment should have been a vote for kids, the unemployed, and veterans.

So, Congress now goes on vacation without extending emergency unemployment benefits for millions of Americans, including 300,000 veterans, but they did pass $225 million in emergency funding for Israel’s military.

 

Something for the DREAMers

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Years ago I did cartoons for the Dorchester Community News. I did some cartoons dealing with the U.S. involvement in Central America back in 1982-83

This is one I did related to Alexander Haig claiming there were Nicaraguans involved in things although he had no concrete proof at that time.

A few years later when I taught in Los Angeles, there were students at Carnegie Junior High that had come from Central America through Mexico before getting to the United States.

Their journey wasn’t an easy one as some were victims of rape, and some were victimized by the unscrupulous the coyotes who had escorted them to this country after having led their parents to believe that for a price they could get their children here safely.

Knowing there was really no one they could turn to, or with whom they could communicate along the way, the coyotes made more money by pimping some of the girls along the way.

Although we were never told specifically who they were, we were informed to be sensitive to all students as some would be these.

The Republicans in the State House came up with the idea that all teachers must ascertain who in their classes were here illegally and report them under threat of loss of certification with a further threat being that if it was discovered that we had such kids in our classes and failed to turn them in, regardless whether we willfully withheld the information or could not prove we were ignorant of it if someone else discovered it, a teacher could be decertified. There was no room for innocence.

The state teachers’ union fought this as it was obviously very wrong, would create an adversarial atmosphere in the classroom, and could scare kids into avoiding school as they might be legal, but some relative might not be, and would be discovered through them.

Later in Oklahoma City I was certain that some of my students may not have been born in the U.S.A., but had been brought over the border so young, that as far as they knew, they were always citizens.

Some found out when applying for college as the end of their senior year approached that they actually weren’t.

But they had played with their classmates, worked hard their whole school careers so they could be the first to graduate from college, and had jobs to help support their families.

They were for all intents and purposes real Americans.

When the dream act was discussed, I knew it would affect kids I had had in class, and I was glad that conditions they were not responsible for would not turn around and bite them in the butts just when they became adults and thought they would have good lives in the only country thy ever knew and thought was theirs.

I was glad when President Obama made it possible that children who were brought here by their parents prior to 2007 could stay here. It made the lives of former students so much better.

And I was glad that it was clarified that kids fleeing horrendous conditions and possible death in their home countries could find asylum her.

I knew kids who fell into this category.

Now we have our infighting, do nothing GOP congress finally getting together to, on one hand, vote to provide emergency funding to deal with the border crisis, but, on the other, to rescind President Obama’s authority to decide whether to deport certain undocumented immigrants.

Basically, even as it is obvious that the White House will not agree to this, The GOP can say, ”Hey, see? We took action on the crisis, so now it is okay for us to go on vacation”.

Just the other day when they failed to overcome themselves and come up with a way to address the problem at the border, John Boehner and other Republicans said Obama should handle things on his own.

So, “I’m going to have to act alone,” was Obama’s response.

Members voted 223 to 189 to approve $694 million in additional funding for federal agencies dealing with the influx of immigrants.
They also voted to adjust the 2008 anti-trafficking law and make it easier for the government to deport Central American minors who have entered the United States illegally, and to give money to the border states to pay for using the National Guard.

They also voted to remove the Obama administration program that provides protections to about 500,000 immigrants who were brought to the country as children.

So the DREAMers need to stop dreaming, and the children need to realize that they are just going to be sent right back into the jaws of what they were fleeing.

In a bit of irony senators failed to confirm the U.S. ambassador to Guatemala where much of the immigration crisis originates.

Maybe when they are on vacation the members of the House will think of ways to deal in a substantive way with what is going on in Central America, and, perhaps undo some of the mess this country is responsible for and which makes it necessary for the kids to flee.

 

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My border solution

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In 2012 more than 125,000 people In Texas signed a secession petition which said,

“The US continues to suffer economic difficulties stemming from the federal government’s neglect to reform domestic and foreign spending. The citizens of the US suffer from blatant abuses of their rights such as the NDAA, the TSA, etc. Given that the state of Texas maintains a balanced budget and is the 15th largest economy in the world, it is practically feasible for Texas to withdraw from the union, and to do so would protect its citizens’ standard of living and re-secure their rights and liberties in accordance with the original ideas and beliefs of our founding fathers which are no longer being reflected by the federal government”.

They wanted the White House to “Peacefully grant the State of Texas to withdraw from the United States of America and create its own NEW government.”

Texas Railroad Commissioner, Republican Barry Smitherman, when running for Texas Attorney General said,

“Generally speaking, we have made great progress in becoming an independent nation, an ‘island nation’ if you will, and I think we want to continue down that path so that if the rest of the country falls apart … Texas can operate as a stand-alone entity with energy, food, water and roads as if we were a closed-loop system”.

In 2009, coincidenaltly after President Obama took office, Rick Perry pushed the idea of secession.

“There’s a lot of different scenarios,” he said at a Tea Party rally, “We’ve got a great union. There’s absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what might come out of that. But Texas is a very unique place, and we’re a pretty independent lot to boot.”

Although he was incorrect he also said, “When we came into the nation in 1845, we were a republic, we were a stand-alone nation. And one of the deals was, we can leave anytime we want. So we’re kind of thinking about that again.”

Individual politicians in Texas have also brought up secession on more than one occasion.

So, here’s my idea.

Since the United States is dealing with border crossings between Mexico and Texas, and to defend that border using United States taxpayer money, and considering that people see this as an “invasion” of our country by 10 year old terrorists who will take our jobs and vote for Obama, we let Texas go.

They have been talking about leaving, so, let them (except Austin that doesn’t want to).

Then when these refugee children cross the Mexico/Texas border, they will not be coming into the United States, but into a foreign buffer country.

Texas, which has been very vocal about the sanctity of borders will, of course, take every step to prevent any violation of the borders between them and New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Louisiana, basically, the United States.

They get what they want, sovereignty, and we get what we want, a buffer nation that will not let the undocumented immigrants get any further than their country.

The only disadvantage they may face is when they will have to give back or pay for any federal lands, like military installations and the equipment that was placed there at the expense of the taxpayers of the United States, or buy all that from us, since they didn’t pay for it originally.

If they were involved in payments, Texans certainly realize they only paid, at best, only a 1/50 part.

It’s a win/win solution.

 

Contradiction? What contradiction?

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Yep.

The president did what the GOP wanted when he delayed that part of the Affordable Care Act that they demanded he delay, and now they have voted to sue him for doing that.

He acted on his own without the approval of congress, although in  response to the demand of congress.

That’s serious enough to sue him over.

John Boehner was hoping to pass a Republican spending bill that would provide $659 million to deal with the child migrant crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Well, he couldn’t get the votes he needed to do that, so in response to congress’s failure to act, Mr. Boehner and his fellow travelers demanded the president act on his own because he has the power to act unilaterally “without the need for congressional action”.

“There are numerous steps the president can and should be taking right now, without the need for congressional action, to secure our borders and ensure these children are returned swiftly and safely to their countries.”

This would seem to go against the law suit that was based on the GOP claim that the president had bypassed “the legislative process to create his own laws by executive fiat”.

Now they want him to do just that because,  just like in the other cases when he acted on his own, they cannot get the job done.

A spokesperson for Harry Reid announced, “Senator Reid agrees with House Republican leaders’ statement that President Obama has the authority to take steps on immigration reform on his own. He’s glad Republicans have come around and hopes this means they’ll drop their frivolous lawsuit against the President instead of continuing to waste the American people’s time and money.”

Remember, congress is willing to spend taxpayer money to sue the president for doing what they now demand he do.

When he did what they demanded with the ACA, the GOP sued him.

If President Obama does what the GOP is demanding now, will they turn around and sue him?

 

At least they’re consistent

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Days ago when I read about the upcoming vote on the Bring The Jobs Back bill, I drew this cartoon.

I just knew that if it came to a choice between doing something that would benefit citizens over corporations, the corporations would win out.

On Wednesday when the act come up for a consideration, Senate Republicans filibustered the bill that was intended to cut corporate tax breaks for moving jobs overseas.

Harry Reid explained, “Today in the United States, any time an American company closes a factory or plant in America and moves operations to another country, the American taxpayers pick up part of that moving bill. Frankly, a vote against this bill is a vote against American jobs.”

The Republican excuse was that this was just a pre-midterm election stunt, and their proof was that Democrats had tried to pass a similar bill two years ago just before congressional elections.

In order to justify the filibuster, the Republicans had to remind us that this is the second time they have made it possible and easy for companies to move overseas leaving our citizens jobless.

So they showed us.

They were not going to play along with what they call a stunt, and, so, U.S. companies who move out of the country will continue to get the tax breaks that help pay for the move and laying off  U.S. citizens, and will be allowed to continue deducting expenses related to moving their operations to a foreign country.

Conversely, this bill would have given tax credits to companies who moved back, or foreign companies who moved here for the first time.

The vote was 54-42 to end debate on the bill which made it 6 votes shy of ending the filibuster

Somehow Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky attempted to justify the vote by saying that the bill is “designed for campaign rhetoric and failure, not to create jobs here in the U.S.”

Yeah, because opening factories in this country would not call for people to work in them.

Had the bill passed, U.S. companies that move overseas would lose $143 million in additional taxes over the next decade, while , Companies moving into the U.S. would have seen their tax bills drop by $357 million over the same period.

$214 million, the difference between the two, would have been applied to the budget deficit.

The White House and some Democrats in Congress have been making the case that a growing number of U.S. corporations are using international tax loopholes to avoid paying U.S. taxes.

Companies like Walgreens are involved in “Inversion” which means that they reincorporate overseas and lower their U.S. tax bills even if they keep their headquarters in this country.

Obama put it this way, “You know, they are renouncing their citizenship even though they’re keeping most of their business here. They shouldn’t turn their back on the country that made their success possible”.

Presently, although companies complain that at 35% they are taxed more than in any other industrialized countries, and people here accept that bit of whining and get all sympathetic, they conveniently gloss over the many credits, deductions and exemptions they get.

Walgreens gets 25% of its profits from the American government coffers, but will not contribute to it.

John Boehner said that it is as important to repeal bills as it is to pass them, and repealing equals passing.

He also said that all bills are job bills.

Would that mean that preventing a bill that would have created jobs was actually passing a jobs bill?