The Slasher!
Votes against Key Domestic Priorities for North Carolinians
Last night North Carolina Senator Elizabeth Dole voted to slash billions for vital domestic priorities in the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Education spending bill. Dole voted for a motion that would have cut $9 billion from the appropriations bill that funds research on cancer, diabetes, and heart disease as well as programs such as Head Start, Pell Grants and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
“Elizabeth Dole is willing to give George Bush a blank check to spend billions of dollars in Iraq, but refuses to meet our commitments to provide quality healthcare and education here at home,” DSCC spokesman Matthew Miller said. “With this vote, Dole proved once again that her misplaced priorities are out of step with North Carolinians.”
Dole Tried to Slash $9 Billion in Funding for Education, Health Care, other Domestic Priorities. Last night, 40 Senate Republicans, including Elizabeth Dole, voted to slash $9 billion in funding for essential priorities in the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Education, such as No Child Left Behind funding, research for medical cures, child care assistance for working families, and Pell Grants. [Vote 390, 10/23/07; CQ Today, 10/23/07; Los Angeles Times, 2/6/07; Education Week, 2/12/07]
Bush Budget Illustrates Dole’s Priorities. The motion would have brought the bill closer to the level proposed by President Bush earlier this year. That budget would have shortchanged disabled children and local taxpayers by cutting special education funding, sticking local governments with an additional $291 million in costs. It would have slashed $1 billion from job training programs. It would have kicked 30,000 children out of Head Start, reduced medical research funding at the National Institutes of Health, and cut numerous other critical programs. [Democratic Policy Committee, 10/17/07, Senate Appropriations Committee analysis, 6/20/07.]
Dole Gives a Blank Check for the War in Iraq but Votes to Slash Funding for Health Care, Education, and Child Care. Dole is not always so intent on pinching pennies. She has consistently voted against changing course in Iraq, instead giving President Bush a blank check to spend nearly half a trillion dollars on a failed strategy in Iraq. [Vote 346, 9/21/07; Vote 252, 7/18/07; Vote 147, 4/26/07; Vote 126, 3/29/07,Vote 116, 3/27/07; Vote 75, 3/15/07; NPR, 7/17/07]
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That pic ...
bravo, sir. Masterful work. :)
Sometimes I wonder if, every morning over coffee, Dole calls into the Master's Office (Dick's undisclosed location) to get the list of bills coming to the floor by number ... and how she's to vote on each one ... and then goes and votes without even reading the short titles.
She's a piece o' work.
And I thought she had her nails done...
my hopes were high for her after this statement of September 12, 2007,
But I should have known better.
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
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It was the "Arlen Specter" reply that we've come to know and
despise. Say just enough to make yourself sound concerned, but then in the end, walk in lockstep with Bush and vote how he tells you.
North Carolina. Turning the South Blue!
Looks like Liddy
needs to get her money back for that face lift.
It's hard to understand the priorities of some of these people. Certainly they're not the same priorities as the majority of North Carolinians, are they? Under Dole's style of leadership our nation will become the dumbest (education), sickest (health care), most destitute developed nation in the world. But at least we'll be No. 1 in arrogance and in the lack of international esteem (Iraq). Go figure.
Hmmm
Why am I not inclined to grab a giant #1 foam finger and wave it around? (maybe because it's the wrong finger?)
Be the change you wish to see in the world. --Gandhi