Firfst, our senior Senator, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee and has served Vermont in the Senate since 1975:
Senator Leahy chaired the first-ever congressional hearing on legislation to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act on July 20. The hearing, held by the Senate Judiciary Committee, focused on the significant economic harm to families that is continually caused by DOMA, from how they are able to care for one another during poor health to how they plan for retirement, and other issues.
Then, from The Nation:
'Gang of Six' Plan? 'Not So Fast,' Says Bernie Sanders
But the one senator who has stood most steadily in defense of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid—and for fiscally sound budgeting—is not joining the mob.
He is objecting. And he says the American people should join him in challenging a a plan that he says would result in devastating cuts to needed programs.
“While all of the details from the so-called Gang of Six proposals are not yet clear, what is apparent is that the plan would result in devastating cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and many other programs that are of vital importance to working families in this country. Meanwhile, tax rates would be lowered for the wealthiest people and the largest, most profitable corporations,” says Sanders.
And Representative Peter Welch:
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We may have our issues with them as individuals, from time to time; but by and large, they do us proud!
Then again Peter Welch just wrote to tell me when I protested cuts to Social Security and Medicaid that everything must be on the table. And PAtrick Leahy can’t wait to get that boondoggle the F-35 going despite the fact that even Air Force pilots think its a dog.
And here for the self-congratulatory about our exceptional state is a warning about what is coming:
Vermont Legislators with ALEC Ties
House of Representatives
Rep. Gregory Clark (R-3)[71]
Rep. Patricia O’Donnell (former R-1, did not run for reelection in 2010), former State Chairman[71]
Senate
Assistant Minority Leader Kevin Mullin (R-Rutland), State Chairman[139]
Maybe they’ll change the name but the fascists are coming to Vermont too and we might better wake up a bit about where things are going.
I’m still kind of mad at Peter Welch for making Andrew Breitbart happy twice; once when he went along with the travesty of defunding Acorn, and again when he expressed in strong terms his disappointment with Anthony Weiner.