GOP Kills Science Jobs Bill By Forcing Dems To Vote For Porn

Or you could just grow a set and vote it down.

Wusses.

Ok, resubmit the bill and have the Rules Committee set it up so this shit can't happen again. While they are at it put something in the new bill to F@#$ this Congressmans district. Like a tax break for strip joints to locate there (Texas loves StripJoints and Whore Houses).

This kind of thing only works because the Democrats let it. Vote the porn thing down and tell the person who added it to feel free to introduce it into the proper committee as a standalone bill. Then pass the issue at hand. It's easy. If every time they attach the "kill and eat puppies" rider onto something we want to pass, they will always attach the rider.

What was their beef with this bill, which appears to have had broad bipartisan support?

Makes sense when you think about it. Republicans have to keep the American people stupid to secure their voting base.

Republicans included a provision that would bar the federal government from paying the salaries of employees who've been disciplined for viewing pornography at work.

does that include Congressfolks and their staffers?

ha ha..

Rep Hall I am more concerned that every industrial country is beating our asses in math and science. The republicans must keep our nation dumb; it’s their voting block and their base. Let them whack it

"Democrats pulled the bill off the floor after the motion passed and promised to introduce it again next week. "

waiting an extra week is hardly killing the bill. Another big headline unsupported by the facts.

This gives a whole new definition for dirty tricks. Out of curiosity I wonder if the debate included any reference to one of the ongoing themes and songs in Avenue Q.

What everyone here is missing is that the Speaker lost control of the floor. There are very few specific powers invested in the Speaker, but controlling the schedule and order of process through committee and to full dispensation is one of them. In effect, the minority party assumed that control.

This happens almost never in the House. Such a procedural vote loss happened once I can think of during the 12 years of GOP control and one other time through a discharge petition (on BICRA).

The time it happened before that, was the summer of 1994. Gingrich has pointed to that procedural win as when he really thought that the GOP had a shot of winning in November and the party doubled down on talking with Dems who might flip, running hard at older members who might still retire, etc.

One wonders what these gentlemen are viewing on their own computers...

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Well, I live in this guy's district. What a proud moment! How much worse could it be? Well, directly to the south is Louie Gohmert. And before I moved to Hall's district, my Congresscritter was Ted Poe. Two former judges that would get even more attention for their batsh*t-crazy ideas but for Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Steve King and a few others. Heck, Ralph is a veritable fount of sensibility compared to what else you find in the Texas GOP.

One of the biggest employers in the district went belly-up a couple years ago, has "downsized" about 15,000 jobs and just had its bankruptcy court-approved sale to a foreign company approved. And the guy that founded and guided the company for decades is a big right-wing Bible-thumping GOP supporter. So to follow up on VictorLH's comment, go ahead and send those strip joints to Ralph's district; they'd probably thrive because we know the fundamentalists here in the Bible Belt are so good at practicing what they preach . . . .

I'm lost. Vote for the fucking amendment. Is there rampant porn-watching going on in the federal government? How many people would actually be affected? If it's bullshit then no one is affected. This is so fucking stupid it hurts each and every neuron in my brain individually.

May I suggest a new article title? "Science funding scuttled by Republicans using porn maneuver."

Nice to see your government wasting everyone's time. Republicans must be especially proud today, at keeping more Americans less educated.

PITIFUL HUMANS! IT WAS I, GALACTUS, WHO ENGINEERED THE DEMISE OF THIS DIRECTIVE IN ORDER TO DENY REED RICHARDS SUFFICIENT FUNDING TO COMPLETE HIS NEURO-TACHYON NET PROJECTOR THAT MIGHT HAVE SAVED YOUR PLANET FROM DESTRUCTION TO SATISFY MY ETERNAL HUNGER, NOT THAT RICHARDS COULD HAVE COMPLETED SUCH AN AMBITIOUS PROJECT, ACTUALLY, HE'S QUITE OVER-RATED, AND NOT THAT I, GALACTUS, COULD NOT HAVE OVERCOME IT, BUT IT IS BETTER TO BE SAFE THAN SORRY, NOT THAT I, GALACTUS, AM CONCERNED ABOUT SAFETY OR SORRY-TY, IT WILL JUST MAKE IT THAT MUCH EASIER FOR ME TO CONSUME YOUR PLANET INCLUDING THE UNWITTING MYRMIDONS YOU CALL "REPUBLICANS" THAT I, GALACTUS, HAVE ONCE AGAIN SO SKILLFULLY MANIPULATED.

This isn't 'republican obstructionism'. This is just obstructionism. Democrats and Republicans alike use these dodgy tactics to their advantage all the time. This is the soul of our political theater and the business of expediency.

On the other hand, Republicans are the party of 'no' these days, the obstructionists. But lets not pretend Dems don't do it either. I can remember multiple times the health care struggle was helped through cheap moves like this one.

How was it that Tom DeLay ran Congress for years and basically did whatever he wanted? And our side can't even vote on a jobs bill?

has anyone else noticed that the republicans have been going after education? one of the provisions in hcr reconciliation package was take the money we saved on student loans and dispense it as pell grants but the GOP pointed out that this didn't affect the budget so it was removed. Newt gingrich said that high school students should drop out and join the workforce. Glenn Beck said kids should be homeschooled. This seems to be a trend by the GOP lately and this is something that will forever keep me from ever voting for the GOP. Not even Mehgan McCain, and she is my favorite republican

Why were they allowed to tack on the poison pill in the first place?

the gop sure are twisted. they have sex on the brain. they mustnot be doin it.

Rep. Bart Gordon (D-TN) said. "It was a cynical effort to undermine an important bill for my 9-year-old daughter

Teach your own daughter, you fucking idiot. You're probably just worried that you might have your pay cut for all the porn surfing on the taxpayer dime

Isn't it much worse that the, clinging on to the last rung, neo-cons introduce this crap in the first place? Call their bluff this time & everytime & proceed in spite of them. Their constituency is too dumb to see any difference & therefore a waste of time & effort. I see that the whole of the right-wing is in the obstruction business & I'm sure the other 75% or so of the nation also gets it.
We can't fix the willingly broken!

"It bespeaks of one's character when one's best ideas are lies."

I suggest a '68 Was Great bill to put all this nonsense to bed forever:

Article I: Sex is ok between consenting adults. Viewing is fine too if that floats your boat.
Article II: The earth is more than 5,000 years old. Get over it.
Article III: If alcohol is ok, then pot is ok too. Drug war? Over.

We live in a strange country indeed for these rather simple points to be matters of such Grave Taboo.

Good, what part of "trilion dollar deficits for at least a decade going forward" and "we can't afford every piece of govt spending crap anybody likes" don't you people understand?

House Republicans Force Porn Vote To Kill Jobs Bill
...Another public screwing by the Pugs!

You are all wrong. This was not an obstructionist plot by Republicans to kill a science bill by using a pornography clause, they genuinely want government workers to have access to pornography at work. It should be headlined as such.

I have seen the GOP hack away at public education for many years now. And I've seen them encourage the promotion of superstition over reason for many years. But I don't recall seeing them take such a direct step against the funding of basic scientific research before. And I can't help noticing that the last year or so has been the time when the ubiquitous and profitable BPA finally gained public recognition as a serious public health issue. Thanks to the work of... federally funded scientists. Who also brought us our awareness of climate change and a whole host of other problems.

I could see independent science as the enemy. If I were one of the wealthy industrialists who comprise the GOP's clientele. Just sayin'.

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People who think Republicans are stupid should heed the breathtaking cunning it took to come up with this one!

But wait as head of ebay Meg WHITMAN... she's GOP right...Here is what Poizner's new ad say.
(from another TPM snippet)
State Insurance Commissioner Poizner's new web video -- "Adults only" -- opens with eBay's history of selling guns, fake paintings and pornography. And then it takes on Whitman, who used to run the online auction site.

"Whitman cleaned up the site," the video's narrator says. "No more guns. No more fake paintings. But pornography? Whitman started a separate division that only sells porn."

Under Whitman's leadership the porn site became one of the largest on the internet. That's Meg Whitman. From Goldman Sachs deals to porn. It's all about the money. Meg Whitman. Bad judgment. Wrong values.

Another aspect of this move on Halls part could be the creationist agenda that is really being pushed in Texas right now. It's pretty common now to see political messages between rivals insinuating that the other might not really be a creationist. The recent changes in education structure there to include these teachings in schools would also seem to reflect this. Not trying to say what he did was right, but there are a lot of politics revolving around science vs theology in Texas right now, and this could merely be a taste of whats to come.