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March 19, 2011
The Tea Party Congress's 20 Best Job Creation Bills
By John Blumenthal
The Tea Party Congress and Job Creation
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House Republicans have come up with a new gimmick -- putting the words "Jobs Creation Act" at the end of every bill in order to camouflage the real intent of the legislation. Here's a comprehensive list of all the "jobs legislation" the Tea Party Congress has introduced so far:
HR 211: The Let's Make Social Security Really Hard to Get by Creating Tons of Incomprehensible Paperwork Jobs Creation Act.
HR 675: The Harrassing Abortion Doctors is Totally Okay with Us Jobs Creation Act.
HR2240: The Let's Deport All Illegal Aliens Except the Ones Who Work for Us Jobs Creation Act.
HR 124: The Abolish the EPA Because We Don't Believe in Science Anyway and Al Gore is an Idiot Jobs Creation Act.
HR 555: The Protect Clarence Thomas from Impeachment Even Though He Deserves it because it Makes People Think We Like Black People Jobs Creation Act.
HR 776: The Let's Make it Really Hard for Women to Get Abortions Unless it's One of Our Daughters and We Don't Like Her Boyfriend Jobs Creation Act.
HR 766: The Let Lobbyists Hand Out Cash on the Floor of Congress Jobs Creation Act.
HR 43: The Let's Change the Country's Name to "The United States of Ronald Reagan" Jobs Creation Act.
HR 786: The Let Prisoners Have Guns Jobs Creation Act.
HR 111: The Smart People Vote for Democrats so Let's Fire All the Teachers and Close the Libraries Jobs Creation Act.
HR 44: The We Really Need a Statue of Jesus on the White House Lawn Like Right Away Jobs Creation Act.
HR 4456: The Let's Give All the Money in the Country Except Ours to the Koch Brothers Jobs Creation Act.
HR55654: The Lets Make the President Produce His Birth Certificate and Ten of His Favorite Bath Tub Ducks or We Won't Believe He's Really President Jobs Creation Act.
HR55A: The Let's Not Let People in Blue States Vote Anymore Jobs Creation Act.
HR5T: The Let's Gag Rachel Maddow and Lock Her in a Shoe Closet Jobs Creation Act.
HRT65: The Let's Redesign the Capitol Dome Because it Looks Too Much Like a Breast Jobs Creation Act.
HR6YT5: The Let's Replace all American History Textbooks in US Schools with the One Michelle Bachmann is Writing Jobs Creation Act.
HR4445: The Let's Make Handicapped Veterans Buy Their Own Wheelchairs because That Way We'll Cut the Deficit a Lot and Nobody Will Notice Jobs Creation Act.
HR000: The Let's Force Gay People to Move to France because French Guys Wear Berets so They Must All be Gay Jobs Creation Act.
HR569d: The Let's Keep Putting the Words "Jobs Creation Act" at the End of all of our Legislation because it's a Really Effective Way to Make Our Really Gullible Voters Think We Really Give a Damn about Creating Jobs Jobs Creation Act.