Shelley Capito's Armageddon Quilt

by: One Citizen

Fri Mar 26, 2010 at 02:39:26 AM EDT

Her descriptions of "Wall of Government" "Government Bureaucracy" and "Generational Debt" are essentially the same arguments that rightwingers endlessly bleated back when the Democrats passed the extremely popular "socialist" Medicare and Medicaid programs. Capito cleverly used these lies much in the same way that my own mother once recycled patches of shopworn cloth to piece together colorful and useful patchwork quilts. The difference is that that Capito chooses to recycle only the most filthy material to present us with her own tapestry of lies.

Like the skilled professional artisan who often purchases new material to finish a patchwork quilt, Capito worked in a new lie that a "government bureaucrat is coming between you and your doctor". She stopped just short of recycling Sarah Palin's bureaucrat death panels.

Coincidentally, she and her coal-powered supporters spend TONs of money on campaign ads here, so when she spreads her tapestry of deceit across WV, it will remain practically unchallenged by the local editorial and news rooms. For example in all the years she's been in office I can't recall any reporter ever asking Capito how she's made so many millions over such a short period of time. Her own income declarations reveal that she's somehow raked in many many times more than what she's earned as a congresscritter, despite never working at any other jobs or holding any other titles. Other than being ranking GOP member of the House Banking and Finance Committee whilst consorting with her award-winning Citigroup hedgefund hubby Charles.

But of course the perks with that territory are all legal. Just ask Bill Frist.

As for her prediction that the state of WV will go bankrupt under the burden of Obamacare, Capito ignores the fact that West Virginia i the fourth richest state in natural resources in the entire U.S., and that we export more coal than any other state. Perhaps it is because of coalocrats like her and her daddy Arch's legacy. Never properly taxing the coal industry here is why we've never properly taken care of our poor, our sick, our aged, our undereducated and our underemployed without the federal government stepping in.

And how Capito can publicly rant about West Virginia being saddled with health care "unfunded mandates" without choking after her daddy was convicted for robbing the state's black lung fund and bankrupting its public employee retirement benefits fund is utterly astounding.

But the biggest reason she yowls so vehemently about Obamacare is likely because the bill raises capital gains taxes on unearned interest, meaning that she and her entire brood will now have to start sharing a piece of what they're all raking in from her sweet wall street "investments". And besides, they're all still covered under her cushy federal health care plan, anyway, so why should any of her priveledged clan have to cough any of that sweet sweet unearned interest up?

It just ain't fair to tax the money that they elite makes off suckers betting on the open market, dammit!

Most folks are likely unaware that the endless moaning and groaning about "record tax increases" that her Repub pals were doing during the Obamacare debate wasn't about HCR funding raised from tax increases on us working stiffs. It was because they're all hopping mad about Dems rolling back Bush's tax cuts on the wealthy.

It's likely why Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity, and all of the overpaid wingnut pundits chant that Obamacare is PURE SOCIALISM!

It's also why the mainstream media never mentions it. They also never mention that when she and the rest of the rejected Republican rubberstamping regime passed Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy, the CBO said that they were raising the deficit by $349 billion. Capito had no problem voting yes on them, justifying the tax cuts bill as a real job producer. We all know how that went.

In fact when Capito and her Republican pals passed the first round of Bush tax cuts in 2001, the CBO said that would raise the deficit by a whoppin $1.3 trillion - trillion with a "T." The CBO is now projecting that Obamacare will actually cut the deficit by $138 billion over 10 years.

Did I mention that Capito is the ranking Republican member of the House banking and financial services oversight committee?

The complete transcript of Capito's Blanket of Dung speech is below the jump.

Why Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV 2nd) Will Be Senator McCain's NEXT VP Choice

by: One Citizen

Mon Sep 08, 2008 at 09:56:42 AM EDT

So who next is best suited to be #2 on the Greedy Offshore Profiteer's ticket?

My money's on Shelley Moore Capito, (R-WV 2nd), for a number of reasons. To start off with, they're just alike.

Both supported the war in Iraq;
Both sell the "surge" as a success desperately trying to cover their failure to oppose the invasion;
Neither will tell their plan for "winning" an occupation;
Both have been blocking oversight of war contracts for years;
Both are MULTImillionaires;
Both cut veteran's benefits year after year;
Both TALK about alternative energy but sell the lie that coal is "a clean alternative";
Both supported the largest cut to education funding in history;
Both would privatize social security;
Both claim they're moderates but voted for Bush's policies around 90% of the time;
Both claim that drilling offshore will make us independent from foreign oil despite US DoE reports otherwise;
Both are very skilled in raising tons of cash from Big Oil and Big Coal;
Both survived major scandals involving large donations from GOP lobbyists jailed for money laundering and other crimes; and,

Neither offers any real solutions to our economic problems.

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by: One Citizen

Sun Sep 07, 2008 at 08:47:18 AM EDT

So they enjoy the same federal benefits as the rest of us while getting tax breaks. To add insult to injury, the money they plow into the stock and commodities markets doesn't produce a thing for this nation, while Americans who work for a living contribute to society through the goods and/ or services we each provide.

Shelley Capito (WV 2nd) has become a multimillionaire since we hired her, making far more than what she's been paid by us. She pays roughly half our income tax rate on unearned interest for "playing the market".

FACT: On 5/25/08, The GOP in congress successfully blocked a Democratic-sponsored bill aimed at tamping down oil market manipulators.

FACT: Insider trading is legal for members of Congress while soaring, manipulated oil market dividends has essentially doubled gas prices.

Capito's Sold Us Out HOW MANY WAYS?

by: One Citizen

Wed Aug 20, 2008 at 16:04:56 PM EDT

HOW CAPITO RESPONDS TO HIGH ENERGY PRICES

* Rep. Capito voted against cracking down on the oil and gas industries price gouging.
* Rep. Capito voted for the GOP energy bill that gave billions to oil, gas and nuclear industries.
* Big oil and gas industries have given Rep. Capito $161,795. Any surprise?

REP. CAPITO PUTS BIG BUSINESS AHEAD OF AMERICAN WORKERS

* Rep. Capito voted to strip overtime protection from millions of workers.

GOP "HEALTH CARE"

* Big drug interests have given $62,500 to Capito over the Representative's career. They know who their friends are.
* Rep. Capito voted for the GOP Medicare Prescription Drug Bill that will give billions to businesses and the health care industry, while forcing seniors to accept annual increases in premiums and deductibles and a growing gap in coverage for the prescription drugs they buy.

TIES WITH THE GOP LEADERSHIP

* Capito received $29,909 from House Majority Leader John Boehner's "Freedom Project" PAC.
* Capito received $34,997 from GOP Whip Roy Blunt's "Rely on Your Beliefs" PAC.
* Capito voted with President Bush 80% of the time.
* Capito voted the GOP party line 89% of the time.

TIES WITH TOM DELAY AND JACK ABRAMOFF
Capito has taken:

* $48,500 from Tom DeLay's ARMPAC.
* $7,000 from Bob Ney, the first congressman to plead guilty in the Jack Abramoff investigation.

With all of these ties to the DeLay/Abramoff mess, is it any surprise that Capito has:

* Voted to weaken House ethics rules when DeLay proposed doing so as GOP Majority Leader.
* Voted with Tom DeLay 92% of the time (through 3/31/2006)

TIES TO DISGRACED FORMER CONGRESSMAN RANDY "DUKE" CUNNINGHAM
Capito has taken:

* $6,000 from "Duke's" PAC.

SUPPORTING OUR TROOPS

* Rep. Capito voted to continue awarding contracts to Halliburton even if the Pentagon's own audit processes found that more than $100 million of their contractor's costs in Iraq were unreasonable. No surprise that Halliburton gave Capito $2,000.
* Rep. Capito opposed expanding access to the military's TRICARE health insurance program to thousands of Reservist and National Guard members, even though 20 percent of all Reservists do not have health insurance, and 40 percent of Reservists aged 19 to 35 lack health coverage.
* Rep. Capito voted against granting a bonus to grant a $1,500 bonus to every American service member serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, including National Guard and Reserve forces.

THE ENVIRONMENT

* 1,861 water systems in 29 states have been contaminated with MTBE, exposing as many as 45 million Americans to this potential carcinogen, but Rep. Capito voted to protect the companies responsible from lawsuits by communities that need their help to clean up these systems.
* Rep. Capito voted against bipartisan reform of the Endangered Species Act.
* Rep. Capito voted for a massive sell off of public lands to mining interests.

HOW DOES CAPITO SUPPORT....

HIGHER EDUCATION?

* While tuition costs are rising for ordinary Americans, Rep. Capito voted to cut Federal student aid by $12.7 billion -- the biggest such cuts in history.

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I'm happy to provide them for you.

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Local MoveOn.org members petition Rep. Shelley Capito

by: One Citizen

Sun Aug 10, 2008 at 15:11:04 PM EDT

Details of Shelley Moore Capito's Years of Shameful Disregard for Veterans' Health Care Needs -

by: One Citizen

Sun May 25, 2008 at 22:09:59 PM EDT

March 6, 2003 - The President's Task Force to Improve Health Care Delivery for Our Nation's Veterans" revealed that "there is persistent concern about the inability of the VA to provide care to enrolled veterans." Bush's own Task Force put him on notice that "the Federal Government has been more ambitious in authorizing veteran access to health care than it has been in providing the funding necessary to match declared intentions."

March 21, 2003 - 2:57 am EST. - as the first reports of American troops invading Iraq under George W. Bush hit the airwaves around the world, Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV02) and other Republicans in the House majority voted along party lines to slash veterans' health care in compliance with President Bush's proposal [H Con. Res 95, Vote #82 3/21/03 On Agreeing to the Resolution (215- 212)]

http://tinyurl.com/r62ryp

Best of: "Shelley Moore Capito: This Week in History (1/14 - 1/20)"

by: Clem Guttata

Mon Mar 26, 2007 at 17:44:09 PM EDT

Who does Rep. Shelley Moore Capito represent?