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Rep. Weiner GOES OFF On Republicans Over Blocking 9/11 Health Compensation Act - TPC

I love this guy

Rep. Anthony Weiner spoke on the House floor tonight in support of H.R. 847, the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, which was blocked from passage by House Republicans. Rep. Weiner addresses some of the false arguments Republicans were using in their opposition to the bill. The vote was 255 to 159 in support of the bill, short of the 2/3 needed for passage; 155 Republicans voted against the legislation, which provides medical monitoring and treatment to World Trade Center responders and survivors who were exposed to the toxins at Ground Zero.

Can Rhode Island have a clone of Anthony Weiner to fill Patrick “Derp” Kennedy’s seat? Our current options are less than amazing and that piss ‘n’ vinegar would go over well here.

That’s politics, yo.  I mean, maybe it’s a performance and maybe the spectacle of it misses some of the finer points of the issue - I’ll admit I don’t know if these things are true.  But I do know that there’s nothing wrong with being excited and impassioned about politics.  For too many people today, it just doesn’t matter like this.