Response on Responders Responding to a lack of Response

     So, HR 847: the Zadroga Bill. Zadroga was an NYPD detective who died from respiratory illness derived from working at Ground Zero. As in, the 9/11 Ground Zero. As in, the guy is fairly universally considered a hero. The proposed bill provides money for medical and financial benefits to 9/11 first-responders, many of whom have been suffering from respiratory illness themselves, and will be paid by fixing a loophole pertaining to corporate taxes. The House passed it...and the Senate's Republicans are filibustering the bill to death. This after the Senate passed the extension of tax cuts for people who make over $200,000 annually after taxes. That makes sense.
    You know what else makes sense? The fact that the Republicans and the media -- the two groups who have routinely invoked the name "9/11" to gain outrage and patriotic support, who disparage the building of Islamic cultural centers in a two-block radius of Ground Zero, who have hundreds of montages of pictures of first responders set to Sarah McClachlan songs on tap for any situation -- are either not talking about the Zadroga Bill, or are busy filibustering it down. No main television news station is touching the issue. The Daily Show is the the only program really talking about the bill, and yesterday Jon Stewart hosted some first-responders from the FDNY and the NYPD on his show to discuss the absurdity of the bill still not being passed. Nothing like a comedy news show being the only emotionally viable and politically relevant thing on TV. Stewart then showed a clip of Senator Mitch McConnell crying after a friend's retirement -- where are the Senate's emotions regarding, oh, I don't know, people who committed heroic deeds and are now suffering from lung diseases?
    So, Senate Republicans: can you please put aside party politics or whatever is going on in your hypocritical brains and pass this one bill?
  Here's the link to the Stewart clip: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-december-16-2010/9-11-first-responders-react-to-the-senate-filibuster