Religions > Bible > Delay's graft Rejected, GOP gets new Face Transplant
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04 Feb 2006 11:43:19 AM |
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Delay's graft Rejected, GOP gets new Face Transplant |
John Boehner: Yet Another Lobbying *****?
http://villagevoice.com/news/0606,kamenetz,72043,2.html
* The new House Majority Leader is not quite the 'reformer' he claims
It's been an absolute hell of a week for middle-class students
and families needing financial aid for college.
On Wednesday, February 1, the House approved, by a 216-214 vote,
$12 billion in cuts to student aid. It's been mentioned in this
space before, but it bears repeating:
These are the largest cuts in the history of the federal student aid
program, and students, of all possible groups in society, were asked
to bear the highest proportion of the $39 billion "deficit reduction"
package. These cuts will mean higher costs in the form of higher
interest rates for parents, and new origination fees.
Meanwhile, there's a $56 billion deficit "expansion" package
currently being debated in the Senate—only they call those tax cuts.
Luke Swarthout, of the Student PIRGs, was among the student advocates
struggling in the past few weeks to get more Republicans to oppose this bill.
In the end, 13 Republicans crossed the aisle, while Democrats stayed solid.
"It's become abundantly clear that Congress still doesn't get it," Swarthout
said last night. "They're taking money from middle-class families and students
to pay for tax breaks for the wealthy."
Today, the second blow of the one-two punch landed home. Rep. John Boehner,
Republican of Ohio, was elected House Majority Leader (to replace the indicted
Tom DeLay) in an upset over current whip Roy Blount.
Somehow, Boehner managed to brand himself the reform candidate.
That might be news to Sallie Mae, the student-loan behemoth,
which in the 2003-2004 election cycle contributed over $100,000
to Boehner through its PACs and individual contributors. That's
40 percent of all contributions made by the entire student
loan industry, reported Stephen Burd in the Chronicle of
Higher Education last week.
"On several occasions, Mr. Boehner was a guest of Albert L. Lord,
who was Sallie Mae's chief executive officer from 1997 to 2005
and is now chairman of its board, on the company's corporate jet,
primarily for golf outings in Florida. The company also helped
sponsor a party that Mr. Boehner threw in New York at the 2004
Republican National Convention. In addition, Mr. Boehner's daughter,
Tricia, works for the General Revenue Corporation, a loan-collection
company owned by Sallie Mae."
These are the kind of cozy, K-Street relationships that lobbying
reform is all about. Why is this friendship between the new House
leader and Sallie Mae bad for students? It's in Sallie Mae's interest
to hold onto its billions of dollars in annual government subsidies.
This is money, from a limited federal higher education budget,
that's not being applied to grants or to making loans more
affordable for students.
It's never been a better time to call or write your Congressperson
about the importance of a federal student aid financing system that's
fair to everyone. Well, maybe last week would have been a better time.
But now's good too.
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GOP's Extremist Makeover as Hannibal Lector is having technical problems;
please stand by. The silence of the lambs is deafening.
Firefighting arsonists, You're fired !
"Burn, baby, burn. That's a beautiful thing," :
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/06/01/eveningnews/main620626.shtml
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/2004-06-02-enron_x.htm
In cyberspace, nobody can hear you scream.
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| User: "Aaron" |
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| Title: Re: Delay's graft Rejected, GOP gets new Face Transplant |
06 Feb 2006 01:14:59 AM |
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The Republican Party is actively supporting FORCED prostitution and
FORCED abortion.
the GOP has attempted to take control of all the bribery in Washington
with the "K street project."
they are just hanging Delay, one criminal out of many, out as a scape
goat for the entire party.
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