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- JBmtk, on 08/05/2008, -1/+48I like this comment by Wayne:
"Republicans booing veterans, imagine that.
Next they will call them fake soldiers…. Oh, yeah, they already did that too.
Hang ‘em high." - Serphyas, on 08/05/2008, -6/+52Why do Republicans hate our soldiers?
- sharpfork, on 08/04/2008, -6/+41It has become apparent that the VFW is a moonbat/terrorist/communist organization since their statement is in opposition only true representation of USA, USA, USA #1 patriotism in America, the GOP. Supporting the troops means supporting Big Oil over all else. < / SNARK >.
- Pake, on 08/05/2008, -1/+27It's complete ***** that our congress can stick in stuff that is completely unrelated to the original bill. This is just another example of congress members trying to use one bill to pass another and when it doesn't work, they'll make commercials claiming how the other side voted against the original bill instead of pointing out why they voted against it.
- inactive, on 08/05/2008, -1/+26At first I was confused at what was going on here. In plain and simple terms, the Democrats tried to pass a bill to improve military funding. In order to get military funding, the Republicans tried to add an unrelated and highly controversial off shore oil permit. AMAZING! This is an excelent, but deceiving way to either kill an unwanted bill, or to pass another unwanted bill. Again... AMAZING! It makes you wonder, though... how to pay for military funding... offshore oil profits? Oh, wait... who profits from that? AMAZING!
- hawkspur, on 08/05/2008, -2/+27 Really? Booing in Congress? What are they, five?
- Pake, on 08/05/2008, -0/+17They don't hate our soldiers. They just love the money that comes from oil more.
- rz8472, on 08/05/2008, -2/+18VFW is supposedly one of the more conservative veterans' organizations as well, or at least much further to the right than either VoteVets or IAVA. I guess the GOP isn't happy unless all vets' organizations is marching in lockstep along with the Bush Administration and Rush Limbaugh.
- bjornski, on 08/05/2008, -0/+15They're going to try and stick that amendment to every single bill from this point on.
Count on it. - charm803, on 08/05/2008, -2/+16Join the military!
And this is the thanks you get!
Seriously, our men and women need more respect than that. Apparently, those darn House conservatives don't care who dies, as long as they get the long end of the stick. - inactive, on 08/05/2008, -5/+18Pathetic apologism.
- obelisky, on 08/05/2008, -2/+14so you are a veteran? im really interested. really i am. what is your story?
- jess21496, on 08/05/2008, -2/+14The GOP = Grand Old Puke. They make me and should make every American sick.
What a bunch of F****** morons. You want to attach a drilling amendment to a bill that is only meant for the vets of this country. What the hell are they missing here?
My Father told me when Reagen was President that the GOP will only make the rich richer and the poor poorer while wiping out the middle class at the same time. It happened then, continued with H.W. and is happening again right before our eyes. In the last seven presidential terms we have only had one administration with a budget surplus. Clinton. Current US deficit............Any Guesses???? And under who's watch? 490 billion and its W. We can't really be this stupid or are we?
Point is, the repubs are thugs and only care about their rich friends. They have proven it over and over again. The voting on this bill is the blatant truth.
Nuff said!! - drunkirish, on 08/05/2008, -0/+12Republicans don't necessarily hate the soldiers. They hate the veterans, because they're too old to fight and cost money that could be going to their special interests.
- thorstrongstone, on 08/05/2008, -1/+12***** *****.
- atarijedi, on 08/05/2008, -1/+12Not all jobs in the Military are infantry and not all infantry have the kill or be killed mentality. Stop stereotyping all veterans into this narrow scope of a gun-ho kill or be killed member of the military.
- Berkana, on 08/05/2008, -0/+11Because they would rather hire Blackwater, whose mercenaries can commit atrocities with impunity unlike soldiers.
- razor150, on 08/05/2008, -1/+12When was the last time a Republican ever supported a soldier? They give a lot of lip service. Then they build shoddy bases in Iraq with showers that kill our soldiers. Then when those soldiers come home and get out of the military those same Republicans forget about them. God forbid if a soldier comes home disabled or wounded, then they are sent to a rat infested hospitals.
Republicans only give minor support to soldiers when they are fighting an dying needlessly. When you're no longer fighting you're useless to them. Whenever a Republicans says "Support the troops" what they are really saying is "Support this moron we have for President and the jackbooted thugs in his administration. ***** the troops, they're only political pawns we pull out when we need them." - inactive, on 08/05/2008, -2/+12The GOP makes no qualms about the fact that all they care about is the highest return on their investments, regardless of who lays waste in the process.
The Dems, at least try and provide a somewhat respectable lifestyle to those individuals they use, and their families, as pawns in the global scheme to achieve good returns on investments.
/ 21st century global "capitalism" - Swivelstick, on 08/05/2008, -2/+11"House conservatives tried to attach an offshore oil drilling amendment to the bill, threatening its passage."
You don't find that offensive? And who was trying to use propaganda?? So you are buried for blatant use of propaganda :) - PhilLesh69, on 08/05/2008, -0/+9If you are looking to external powers to provide a filter that you should be able to provide yourself, then you are part of the problem.
Don't look to the government, companies, and everyone else to do something you can do for yourself.
I saw that this article was from thinkprogress before I ever clicked on it. I don't need a new government agency to protect me from it. I don't need a webiste to protect me from it. I don't need technology to protect me from it. I don't need to rely on everyone else to protect me. I can think for myself, and I take responsibility for my own life.
Too bad you are looking for someone else to take responsibility and make the effort to protect you from ideas you can't deal with. But that's your ***** problem. Loser.
You're the kind of person who cries for a new law every time something violates your sense of reason. "There ought to be a law" should be a cry for help from the psychiatric community. Anyone who wants a new law every time they get offended should be institutionalized, for life. - egoideal, on 08/05/2008, -1/+10Right, the bill is the issue here, not a bunch of grown men and women who are instrumental in leading this country acting like a bunch of little brats after their pathetic plan fails miserably.
- rckxxmedk, on 08/05/2008, -1/+10The Republicans, after the Vietnam war, used to be a bastion of military conservatism as they courted many, many conservatives and blue-collared people. Republicans were touted as the 'Veteran's Party' through the 70s, 80s and 90s. But we can see that in recent times, the Republican Party is showing more and more of its true colors - cooing with its elitist, money-making base at the expense of the everyday hard working American. (A good example is George Bush and John McCain rejecting a bill that would increase Veteran's education benefits; the only way it passed was that the democrats had to compromise with the Republicans. The Republicans didn't want the top half percent of Americans to get an addition 2% tax).
The Democrats, after decades of being decried as unpatriotic and anti-military, is aggressively making inroads into one of the Republicans' main constituencies. Prior to Vietnam, the military voted almost 50/50 Republican/Democrat - it was purposely a-political. After Vietnam, it went to 65/35 Republican/Democrat. Hopefully, with the Republicans showing their true colors about how they feel about Veterans, the military will return to its 50/50 voting record and remember that both parties will pander to the military institution for its own devices. - jaxcs, on 08/05/2008, -0/+8being a veteran doesn't make you immune from stupidity.
- Mononuclear, on 08/05/2008, -1/+9WTF does offshore drilling have to do with veteran affairs and why is it in there? Why can't they just make a different bill for off shore drilling and leave this one alone?
I am sick of totally non related crap being thrown into bills (on both sides) and then when anyone votes against it they are called on it. Like if someone votes against this bill then they are labeled saying they don't care about veterans so of course they have to vote for it even if it has other crap in it.
Stop sticking other things in bills that have nothing to do with the actual bill so legislators can vote on the actual issue. - drunkirish, on 08/05/2008, -1/+9Pro-war and pro-military =/= pro-soldier and pro-veteran
- Nevarius, on 08/05/2008, -0/+8Disposable heroes. Sadly they treat the military like a toy box...tossing the broken toys aside when their no longer of use.
- foofightrs777, on 08/05/2008, -2/+10Are you really suggesting that you would "boo" the VFW? You must be troll or absolutely retarded.
- pgoetz, on 08/05/2008, -0/+8You dumb ass, it's a youtube video of actual congressional activity -- what does this have to do with thinkprogress? Oh wait, I forgot; the truth/reality have a well known liberal bias.
- Berkana, on 08/05/2008, -0/+7You have absolutely no business saying that. The Republicans always pull out this card when legislation is brought out by the Dems, and completely ignore the principle when Republicans do the same. At least the Dems want to spend towards helping people such as veterans; the Republicans only seem to want to spend on war, even if at the cost of supporting the warriors.
If Republicans don't have the political will to raise taxes to fund the war, they have no business having political will to continue the war, because all the money that is borrowed to fund the war will have to be paid back with more than was borrowed. And guess what? The tax payers will ultimately foot the bill.
Down with Republican redistribution of wealth!--taking from the middle class and the poor and giving it to war profiteering corporations and big oil. - Thinxdeep, on 08/05/2008, -1/+8The liberals should tack on a marijuana legalization amendment onto any unwanted conservative bills. See how that pans out.
- growler1, on 08/05/2008, -0/+7Also, a lot of veterans use the GI bill to attend college. Just a point of order.
- rz8472, on 08/05/2008, -0/+6Yeah, they should beat each other with canes a la Preston Brooks or GTFO.
- pintomp3, on 08/05/2008, -0/+6so taking care of veterans is a waste of money?
- pgoetz, on 08/05/2008, -1/+6I'm sorry that military service appears to have scrambled your brains, but this is a link to a youtube video of actual congressional activity. Unless you're repeating the claim that the truth/reality have a well known liberal bias, then I'm not sure what this has to do with thinkprogress.
- razor150, on 08/05/2008, -1/+6Wow, no matter his politics or ignorance on a mater it does not condone such a statement.
- pintomp3, on 08/05/2008, -0/+5republicans probably feel that way about the vfw since they rated obama higher than mccain on veteran's issues.
- darkciti2, on 08/05/2008, -0/+5Typical shameless pro-corporation Republicans.
They don't care about the people, they care about corporate profit. - infinitus64, on 08/05/2008, -0/+5wtf is with the picture on this page
- twich35, on 08/05/2008, -0/+4I honestly felt sick after watching that video. I cant believe how deluded some people are booing the spokesman for a veteran organization because he wants the bill to go through without any risk.
- seltaeb4, on 08/05/2008, -0/+4Dugg for antebellum American political reference.
- diggadigga, on 08/05/2008, -6/+10"House conservatives tried to attach an offshore oil drilling amendment to the bill, threatening its passage. Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Chet Edwards (D-TX) denounced the tactic."
This was my reaction"
http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/6092/la35bac0d3 ... - joebus, on 08/05/2008, -1/+5Stop spamming that comment/gif in all digg stories.
http://digg.com/users/diggadigga - DD2CC2U, on 08/05/2008, -1/+4Who are these guys that Boo the VFW! Vote the GOP Bums OUT!
- DD2CC2U, on 08/05/2008, -0/+3I do agree with you. The VA should be boo-ed. As the government agency that is assigned to oversee this case the VA has no right to deny this soldier's benefits if the soldier deserved them according to the soldier's contract with the government.
- pintomp3, on 08/05/2008, -0/+3veterans don't need health care or college tuition. they need your diggs!
- DD2CC2U, on 08/05/2008, -0/+3The VA is not a private veterans organization like the VFW. The VA is a government organization assigned the responsibility to take care of Veterans and their issues. The VA maintains bureaucracy dedicated to administration of the contracts the government made to the veterans in return for their service to the nation.
- jarvelated, on 08/05/2008, -1/+3Wow, i had to log in just so I could dig you down in both of your comments. Your kind of ignorance is what is wrong with some people in this country. You make the rest of us look bad.
- RusskiGuy, on 08/06/2008, -1/+3Wow, you're a pompous ignorant idiot.
Here's a simple example - mine: poor immigrant family, no money for college. So I did 4 years in the Marine Corps as a Legal Specialist to get the GI Bill. While in the service, I completed an equivalent of 50 credit units through combination of service-related accredited training and college courses along with a Business Certificate of Achievement with Highest Honors, while working 45-60 hours a week, and volunteering some weekends.
Now that I have completed my service, I'm going to school full time for my B.S., maintain a membership in an academic honors society and a 3.93 GPA. I've met many veterans who are following a similar path.
Let me take a guess though: is your greatest contribution to society posting stupid comments on Digg? - DisposableRob, on 08/05/2008, -1/+3They throw insults in British Parliament and have all out fist fights in the government halls of South Korea and Bolivia. Our Congress is very well behaved in comparison.
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