Insulin as a luxury

31 Thursday Mar 2022

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Ann Wagner, Billy Long, Blaine Luetkemeyer, Congress, healthcare, HR 6833, Insulin, Jason Smith, right wingnuts, Sam Graves, Vicky Hartzler

Today:

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 102
H R 6833 YEA-AND-NAY 31-Mar-2022 5:47 PM
QUESTION: On Passage
BILL TITLE: Affordable Insulin Now Act
[….]
—- YEAS 232 —

Bush
Cleaver

—- NAYS 193 —

Graves (MO)
Long
Luetkemeyer
Smith (MO)
Wagner

—- NOT VOTING 6 —

Hartzler

[emphasis added]

Profiteering is apparently a republican family value.

Billy Long (r) [2021 file photo]

Blaine Luetkemeyer (r)[2021 file photo]

Jason Smith (r) [2021 file photo]

And some don’t care enough to show up to vote for their constituents’ healthcare.

Vicky Hartzler (r) [2021 file photo].

Why are we not surprised?

The company one keeps

30 Wednesday Mar 2022

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anti-LGBTQ, Family Research Council, missouri, social media, Tony Perkins, Twitter, U.S. Senate, Vicky Hartzler

Today:

Rep. Vicky Hartzler @RepHartzler
Honored to stand with @tperkins and receive the @FRCAction’s “True Blue” award for my unwavering commitment and support of faith, family, and freedom!
[….]
4:53 PM · Mar 30, 2022

From the Southern Poverty Law Center:

[….] The Family Research Council (FRC) bills itself as “the leading voice for the family in our nation’s halls of power,” but its real specialty is defaming LGBTQ people.

[….]

The FRC often makes false claims about the LGBTQ community based on discredited research and junk science. The intention is to denigrate LGBTQ people as the organization battles against same-sex marriage, hate crime laws, anti-bullying programs and the repeal of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.

To make the case that the LGBTQ community is a threat to American society, the FRC employs a number of “policy experts” whose “research” has allowed the FRC to be extremely active politically in shaping public debate. Its research fellows and leaders often testify before Congress and appear in the mainstream media. It also works at the grassroots level, conducting outreach to pastors in an effort to “transform the culture.” [….]

[….]Tony Perkins heads the Family Research Council, an anti-LGBT hate group located in Washington, D.C. Perkins has a sordid political history, having once purchased Klansman David Duke’s mailing list for use in a Louisiana political campaign he was managing. In 2001, Perkins gave a speech to a Louisiana chapter of the Council of Conservative Citizens, a white supremacist group.

[….]

Since joining the FRC, Perkins has taken the group in a harder anti-LGBT direction, using it to publish false propaganda about that community and contending that gay rights advocates intend to round up Christians in “boxcars.” [….]

Yes, the company one keeps.

Representative Vicky Hartzler (r) [2016 file photo].

Asked and answered

24 Thursday Mar 2022

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Ketanji Brown Jackson, missouri, right wingnut, social media, Supreme Court, Twitter, Vicky Hartzler

Representative Vicky Hartzler (r) [2016 file photo].

You were expecting anything else?:

Rep. Vicky Hartzler @RepHartzler
If the #SCOTUS hearings were an episode of Wheel of Fortune [….]
[….]
5:26 PM · Mar 24, 2022

Answered:

Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid @JoyAnnReid
Clearly the answer to the right wing question #WhatIsAWoman is: a person you collect a bounty on if she tries to get an abortion and who you shrug at and say “have the baby or we’ll sue you” if she gets raped. Also: someone whose job is to have big boobs and get men a sandwich.
4:33 PM · Mar 24, 2022

Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid @JoyAnnReid
Also #WhatIsAWoman — a person you pay 80 percent of what you pay a man to do the same job; or 60-67 percent if she’s Black, Hispanic, AAPI or indigenous.
[….]
4:33 PM · Mar 24, 2022

Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid @JoyAnnReid
Also #WhatIsAWoman — A person, whether cis or trans, old or young, whom the right does not feel they need bother to respect if she is not white or MAGA or Christian or conservative. Even if she is a sitting federal judge. I think that about sums it up.
[….]
4:33 PM · Mar 24, 2022

Vicky Hartzler (r) won’t get it.

Vicky Hartzler (r): “Your awl reely stoopit.”

17 Thursday Mar 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in US Senate

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chutzpah, HR 3967, Hypocrisy, missouri, right wingnut, U.S. Senate, veterans, Vicky Hartzler

Vicky Hartzler (r) [2021 file photo].

An event scheduled for March 21st in Jefferson City:

[….] Congresswoman Hartzler is hosting a recognition ceremony honoring Vietnam Veterans on Monday, March 21, 2022 in Jefferson City, MO. [….]

Two weeks ago:

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 57

H R 3967 YEA-AND-NAY 3-Mar-2022 10:59 AM
QUESTION: On Passage
BILL TITLE: Honoring our PACT Act

[….]

—- YEAS 256 —

Bush
Cleaver

—- NAYS 174 —

Graves (MO)
Hartzler
Long
Luetkemeyer
Smith (MO)
Wagner

[….]

[emphasis added]

The bill summary:

Summary: H.R.3967 — 117th Congress (2021-2022)
[….]
Passed House (03/03/2022)
Honoring our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act of 2021 or the Honoring our PACT Act of 2021

This bill addresses health care, presumption of service-connection, research, resources, and other matters related to veterans who were exposed to toxic substances during military service.

The bill provides eligibility for Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical care, including mental health services and counseling, to veterans who (1) participated in a toxic exposure risk activity (a qualifying activity that requires a corresponding entry in an exposure tracking record system), (2) served in specified locations on specified dates, or (3) deployed in support of a specified contingency operation.

The bill establishes the Formal Advisory Committee on Toxic Exposure to assist with the various procedures in establishing or removing presumptions of service-connection.

The bill modifies or establishes the presumption of service-connection for certain conditions or purposes for various groups of veterans.

Among other requirements, the VA must

– provide a veteran with a medical examination regarding the nexus between a disability and toxic exposure risk activity if a veteran submits a disability compensation claim for a service-connected disability with insufficient evidence,
– incorporate a clinical questionnaire to help determine potential toxic exposures as part of the initial screening conducted for veterans with a VA primary care provider, and
– establish a registry for current or past members of the Armed Forces who may have been exposed to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances due to the environmental release of aqueous film-forming foam at a Department of Defense location.

Vicky Hartzler (r) voted “No.” As if anyone would expect anything else.

поле́зный идио́т

05 Saturday Mar 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in social media, US Senate

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invasion, missouri, oil, right wingnut, Russia, social media, Twitter, U.S. Senate, Ukraine, useful idiot, Vicky Hartzler

Vicky Hartzler (r) [2016 file photo].

Yesterday:

Rep. Vicky Hartzler @RepHartzler
Russia has America over a barrel — literally.

President Biden’s failed energy policies caused the United States to purchase 595,000 barrels of Russian oil per day.

This vulnerability needs to be addressed by producing energy here at home and becoming energy independent again.
[….]
10:18 AM · Mar 4, 2022

Let’s go to some of the responses:

Time to follow Germany’s lead and focus on renewables instead of fossil fuels… which is what Biden’s infrastructure plan is about. So, which policies that you will vote for are to succeed?

Ms. Hartzler- what is your opinion on what the USA should be doing now in Ukraine? Do a no fly zone? Send troops? Stay completely out of it? Something else?

You’re another loyal servant of Big Oil.

Russian oil is not being imported by the US government but by private companies. Why aren’t you telling them to stop, telling them to stop exporting US energy resources and supporting expanded renewable energy development in the US?

Weird! and here I thought it was when the Covid economic crisis drove oil prices down to $25 dollars a barrel American producers closed up shop because they lost money at those prices. You are SO SMART Vicky! [….]

Your wishful thinking comrade

You have no idea what you are talking about Miss Home Economics teacher, so quit spreading misinformation. Be a real leader.

Fake outrage, Vicky. TFG sword-danced with the Saudi’s while they bombed Yemen to dust. Where was your outrage then? Where was your outrage when the U.S. invaded Iraq based on fake claims of WMD?
Russian oil is part of the same game you all have been playing for decades.

9,000 oil leases that are not being used right now. Why are you not questioning them???

Give it a rest “hateful Hartzler” you just want us to nix the paltry 10% of imports so it will raise gas prices and you can then vilify and turn it against
@POTUS later. If you really cared you’d be asking why the oil companies in the US limit their production instead!

Maybe Donald Trump should stop licking this dictator’s boots. He weakened our democracy & our standing in the world; opening the door for the vampires.

Thank you, @POTUS, for standing up to authoritarians.

678,000 jobs were added, and the unemployment rate fell to 3.8% in February.
Under President Biden, the economy has averaged a monthly gain of 582,000 jobs over the past 3 months. – U.S. Department of Labor, 3/4/2022
Why won’t you admit this is good news for America?
Politics?

“Россия” (Russia) – a variant of the Russian presidential flag.

Doing someone’s work for them, eh?

Useful.

Image

Vicky’s Twitter Gag

05 Saturday Mar 2022

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Cartoons of Vicky Hartzler, Eric Greitens., Hartzler Twitter Suspension, Missouri Republican U.S. Senate Race, Vicky Hartzler, Vicky Hartzler Twitter

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The internal republican debate about the proper use of duct tape

22 Tuesday Feb 2022

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duct tape, Eric Greitens, Hypocrisy, missouri, right wingnuts, social media, Twitter, U.S. Senate, Vicky Hartzler, whiplash

Vicky Hartzler (r) [2021 file photo].

Today is the first day of candidate filing at the office of the Missouri Secretary of State. The republican U.S. Senate candidates who have filed so far:

U.S. Senator
Republican
Name Mailing Address Date Filed

Mark McCloskey 4472 LINDELL BLVD ST. LOUIS MO 63108 2/22/2022 8:09 a.m.

Eric Greitens PO BOX 989 CHESTERFIELD MO 63006 2/22/2022 8:19 a.m.

Hartford Tunnell 19362 HARTSFORD LANE CARTHAGE MO 64836 2/22/2022 8:43 a.m.

Deshon Porter 1610 N KINGSHIGHWAY #8012 ST LOUIS MO 63113 2/22/2022 9:07 a.m.

Dave Sims PO BOX 28602 KANSAS CITY MO 64188 2/22/2022 9:47 a.m.

Patrick A Lewis 408 W LOCUST WELLSVILLE MO 63384 2/22/2022 10:09 a.m.

Billy Long PO BOX 4527 SPRINGFIELD MO 65808 2/22/2022 10:22 a.m.

Eric Schmitt 101 W ARGONNE DR, BOX 24 KIRKWOOD MO 63122 2/22/2022 10:31 a.m.

Vicky Hartzler PO BOX 531 HARRISONVILLE MO 64701 2/22/2022 10:48 a.m.

C.W. Gardner 4398 W PINE BLVD #102 ST LOUIS MO 63108 2/22/2022 11:09 a.m.

Robert (Bullet) Allen 3940 BENNE RD DEFIANCE MO 63341 2/22/2022 12:07 p.m.

Dave Schatz PO BOX 92 SULLIVAN MO 63080 2/22/2022 12:27 p.m.

Bernie Mowinski 16 KATE CIRCLE SUNRISE BEACH MO 65079 2/22/2022 12:35 p.m.

[emphasis added]

That’s quite a list.

Yesterday, from Vicky Hartzler (r):

Vicky Hartzler @VickyHartzlerMO
Happy #PresidentsDay!
[….]
10:31 AM · Feb 21, 2022

Speaking of people who abuse women…

Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check…

Campaign supplies.

Today in Jefferson City:

Rudi Keller @RudiKellerMI
.@VickyHartzler says of @EricGreitens: “It is not conservative to tie a woman up in your basement and assault her.” #MoSen #Election2022
11:02 AM · Feb 22, 2022

Rudi Keller @RudiKellerMI
@VickyHartzler says if she doesn’t win primary she will support Republican #MoSen nominee ‘except for @EricGreitens’
11:10 AM · Feb 22, 2022

180° in twenty-four hours. That’ll cause whiplash.

Uh, did we say that out loud?

Eric Greitens (r) [2016 file photo].

An airplane ride must be the difference.

Uh, Canada

10 Thursday Feb 2022

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Always from the list of talking points. Never one original thought.

Representative Vicky Hartzler (r) [2016 file photo].

Yesterday:

Rep. Vicky Hartzler Retweeted
Newsmax @newsmax
Lawmakers are calling for an investigation into GoFundMe to see if they violated federal law after removing the ‘Freedom Convoy’ trucker’s fundraiser from their platform.

“They’re discriminating against conservative groups,” said @RepHartzler on Wednesday’s “Wake Up America.”
8:02 AM · Feb 9, 2022

“…on Wednesday’s ‘Wake Up America.'” Not a moment’s hesitation on their part.

As usual, the responses are priceless:

You do realize this is in Canada. So your effort to rile the racist base on this one falls flat this morning.[….]

Does she know that Canada is a whole different country with sovereignty and everything?

Things changed after the Bowling Green Massacre.

Hey Vick, Canada called and said to mind your own business in your own country! [….]

Geography is hard.

Previously:

O Canada (February 9, 2022)

	Campaign Finance: of… on Campaign Finance: off to the r…
	Judicial contempt ha… on Denny Hoskins (r): “…
	Judicial contempt ha… on HB 1: Gerrymander this
	So sad \| Show Me Pro… on Salus populi suprema lex esto
	So sad \| Show Me Pro… on Can play with AI, can’t…

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Insulin as a luxury

Vicky Hartzler (r): “Your awl reely stoopit.”

Vicky’s Twitter Gag