Kudos Republicans! (Seriously....no, seriously!)

[mr.Curmudgeon]

For Thursday's Washington Post:

"House Republican leaders neared an expected decision to strip oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Reserve from their massive $54 billion budget-cutting measure Wednesday night as they scrounged for support ahead of a scheduled vote Thursday.

At least 22 Republicans have told the House leadership they will not vote for the sweeping bill unless the drilling provision is removed and they are given assurances that it will not return after House and Senate negotiators hash out a final measure. Even then, several moderate Republicans have said they still would oppose the bill, which would allow states to impose new costs on Medicaid recipients, cut funds for student loans and child support enforcement, trim farm supports, lift a moratorium on "Outer Continental Shelf" offshore energy drilling, and restrict access to food stamps. "

It's been a loooooooong time since I've felt compelled to say this, and I don't want it to ever be said that I haven't given credit where credit is due, but "Kudos Republicans!...at least you 22!"


Clay Shaw, FL-22

Vernon Ehlers, MI-3

Sue Kelly, NY-19

James Walsh, NY-25

Michael Fitzpatrick, PA-8

Jim Gerlach, PA-6

Thomas Petri, WI-6

Mark Kirk, IL-10

Jim Leach, IA-2

Mark Kennedy, MN-6

Jim Ramstad, MN-3

Jeb Bradley, NH-1

Frank LoBiondo, NJ-2

Dave Reichert, WA-8

Nancy L. Johnson, CT-5

Christopher Shays, CT-4

Rob Simmons, CT-2

Mike Castle, DE

Tim Johnson, IL-15

Roscoe Bartlett, MD-6

Wayne Gilchrest, MD-1

Joe Schwarz, MI-7

Charles Bass, NH-2

Rodney Frelinghuysen, NJ-11

Jim Saxton, NJ-3

Chris Smith, NJ-4

Sherwood Boehlert, NY-24




mrC

[AllisterFiend]

Funny, if you look at that list most of them are from the North East, they are no more Republican than Bloomberg is. hmmm, there is one from FL., I wonder if I can vote him out! 


This issue is far from being dead, hang in there though.


Allister Fiend

[ChadTower]

One thing I've always been for, and will always be for, is strict and severe enforcement of child support orders.

The amount of men who leave their family and then never pay a damn dime to support their children angers me like very few issues.  It is a disgrace to humanity.

[MameJunkie]

One thing I've always been for, and will always be for, is strict and severe enforcement of child support orders.

The amount of men who leave their family and then never pay a damn dime to support their children angers me like very few issues.

[ChadTower]

The MIA cases are difficult, yes, but there are thousands of men out there who live in the same town as their children and still pay none of the ordered support.  Often the children live in total poverty, too.

Arresting thousands upon thousands of people for pot possession is a priority but enforcing child support orders is not.  The very thought of that reflects very poorly on our entire society.

[grueinthebox]

One thing I've always been for, and will always be for, is strict and severe enforcement of child support orders.

The amount of men who leave their family and then never pay a damn dime to support their children angers me like very few issues.  It is a disgrace to humanity.

Problem I have is that the system (at least here in Texas) is exceptionally biased in the woman's favor when it comes to custody, alimony and child support.  Here, a woman can be entirely responsible for a split (infidelity, etc), still get custody of the children and be awarded child support 99% of the time.  If they're going to start with the militant enforcement of these rulings, the rulings need to be evaluated more equitably to begin with.

It's not always as simple as some sleaze abandoning his family.

[ChadTower]

Doesn't matter, absolutely irrelevant, the cause of the split.

Parents should share the financial cost of properly raising children. 

If the mother has the children, the mother should receive child support.  There is no grey area, no room for bias, nothing.

Same case if the father has the children.

Child support is NOT A PUNISHMENT doled out by a judge.

Child support is NOT ALIMONY.

Your logic supports the situation where a cheating woman causes a divorce yet retains the children, and since she caused the divorce, the father has no responsibility to help support his children.  That is simply not valid from any viewpoint of responsible parenting.

[Dartful Dodger]

Don't fall for it Mr C. this is all a republican trick to get the simple minds to believe that the republican party is for the people, since BUSH WON and Cheney isn't running they are just pretending to do things for the country, infact BUSH is in on it, so he is going to act like he feels the republican party is against him.

[mr.Curmudgeon]

The Dems need you to keep fueling the hate...

Then...

Hopefully Obama ties his political career the that hag of an anchor, so we'll sink two birds with the same stone.

Yeah, I'm the hater.

mrC

[Dartful Dodger]

Yeah, I'm the hater.

mrC

Now that's something we can agree on.