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Bill Maher levels GOP Rep. Kline: He embodies D.C’s ‘easily-swayed whores and sellouts
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/12/bill-maher-levels-gop-rep-kline-he-embodies-d-cs-easily-swayed-whores-and-sellouts/Bill Maher levels GOP Rep. Kline: He embodies D.C’s ‘easily-swayed whores and sellouts
Arturo Garcia
12 Sep 2014
Real Time host Bill Maher closed his season premiere on Friday with a scathing takedown of incumbent Rep. John Kline (R-MN), calling on his viewers to help vote him out of office in November.
“More than anyone else we could find, he embodies the easily-swayed whores and sellouts who keep this town running,” he told his Washington, D.C. audience.
Maher said that, besides voting against the Affordable Care Act — 54 times — as well as stem-cell research, marriage equality and raising the minimum wage, Kline also supported last year’s federal government shutdown and was “bought and paid for” by for-profit colleges.
“As the powerful chairman of the Education Committee, Kline has done more to keep twentysomethings in their parents’ basements than anyone else alive,” Maher argued, adding that 88 percent of students at the University of Phoenix, Kline’s biggest supporter, do not graduate.