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Keywords For Dick Armey: Bigotry, Despicable Behavior, Un-American,
Self Serving
BACKGROUND:
Armey,
a Texas congressman, was a primary architect of the "Contract with America"
and flat tax wonk.
AMMO
(Bigotry, Un-American)
05/2002
FACT:
The United States Senate unanimously passed legislation to provide federal
death benefits to survivors of ten fallen heroes from the 9/11 tragedy.
The bill was named for Father Mychal Judge, the gay chaplain who died while
administering last rites to a firefighter in the World Trade Center. While
the Senate did the right thing, bigoted Republicans in the House, led by
Dick Armey, couldn't stand the thought of providing assistance to surviving
family members of gays and lesbians. The bill cleared the House Judiciary
Committee, but Armey pulled it before it could come up for a vote on the
House floor.
COMMENT:
Apparently, according to the GOP, being Gay eliminates you from being a
person, not to mention a patriot and a hero, even if you've made the ultimate
sacrifice in order to protect your fellow Americans. Armey is a pig!
(Despicable Behavior,
Self Serving)
FACT:
In response to the September 11 attacks which resulted in a massive decrease
in air travel, congress signed a $15 billion bail-out program for the airlines
so they could stay in business. Despite this bailout, tens of thousands
of airline employees were laid off. In response to a Democratic proposal
to extend benefits to the laid-off workers, Dick Armey said, "the model
of thought that says we need to go out and extend unemployment benefits
and health insurance benefits and so forth is not I think one that is commensurate
with the American spirit here."
COMMENT:
Ah, yes. Thank goodness the Republican Leadership has the concept of "American
Spirit" deeply and accurately ingrained in their pea-brains. We certainly
wouldn't want any misrepresentation that might result in the average-worker-types
getting screwed, would we. So I think we can all safely say, "Thanks. Dick!"
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