So how do Democrats in Congress say "thank you" on veterans day?
By paulseale Posted in Democrats — Comments (3) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
There are many ways we as Americans can choose to say thank you to those who serve our nation today. Write a piece, lay flowers at the grave of the fallen or simply shake the hand of a vet and tell them how much you appreciate their sacrafice for this nation.
Nancy Pelosi and Democrats in Congress decided to take a different track: voting down a "clean" veterans funding bill while pushing for our troops to withdraw and surrender for the 58th time this year.
This is not some sort of cruel joke or hoax. Republicans tried today to finish work on legislation which would fund the veterans bill without Washington inserted pork. It was turned back for the tenth time in 146 days. (votes here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here)
What makes matters worse, I think, is how much other legislation (and investigations) was passed as a priority ahead of this bill. When you consider those facts with the combined fifty seven other votes Democrats forced in an effort to pull out of Iraq before the job was done, it is down right disgraceful.
Mind you that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid promised the funding bill would be finished by today.
Perhaps the best exclamation point to be added to the sentence is Pelosi's desire for a 58th vote requiring our forces surrender and withdraw from Iraq as a prerequisit before providing a quarter of the money to purchase the necessities our men and women need to fight. This includes fuel, munitions, armor and IED resistant vehicles.
I guess one doesnt need to understand that the tide is turning and we need to be behind our armed forces when one is trying to score political points with its base.
Congressman Blunt sums it up best in a press release issued today:
“When the House first took up and overwhelmingly passed the veterans’ appropriations bill 146 days ago, none of us could’ve anticipated we’d be standing here today – the last legislative day before Veterans Day – without a final bill. But maybe we should have. After all, Democrats have used seemingly every measure concerning our Armed Forces as an opportunity to induce surrender in Iraq and pass billions of dollars in unrelated pork-barrel spending. This is just the latest example of it."
Your attempts to rationalize away your Party's attempt to politicize the war (via endangering the troops) by blaming us have been duly noted. May we safely assume that your construction firm shares your opinion, and are happy that you are using company resources to promote it?
Scram, apologist.
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC. I've been usurped!
I thought it was the Republicans who sent our troops into war without body armor and said "You go to war with the army you have, not the army you wish you had."
I must have remembered wrong.