If it wasn’t for all the nuttiness that I have become used to I would think that this story would have to be made up to be real.  Maybe the long term plan is to drive us all insane so that we kill ourselves and then they can just move Arabs, Mexicans, and Chinese into our houses.  Heck, they are harder working, less maintenance, and more compliant.  From a business standpoint it’s a no-brainer.

An excellent reminder of GOP hypocrisy.

Just when you think it can’t get any worse… it gets worse.

Boehner and McCain deserve to be listed in the Annals of Military Distinction alongside Generals Dreedle, Peckem, and Scheisskopf.

Richard, my guess is that they don’t want a bunch of Iraqi vets showing up on college campuses riding their Segways here and there while obviously missing a bunch of limbs and displaying other injuries from Iraq.  What would that do to the recruiting guys on campus looking to sign up some replacement bodies?

The important thing for the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex is the money to be made in the development and production of military hardware.  Traditionally, those killed or maimed in combat are quickly forgotten in the corridors of power, though not generally among families, friends and comrades in arms.  It might be recalled that the major impetus for the G.I. Bill after WWII was the fear that the economy could not take that many workers into employment so abruptly and that trying this would rekindle the Great Depression.  Far better to stockpile veterans in college for several years until there might be positions for them.  Despite all the flag lapel pins, yellow ribbons, and exhortations to “support the troops” I expect that most of them will be studiously ignored by our rulers in short order after they manage to escape stop loss.  Matt Drudge was able to publicize the fact that the Bushies were stockpiling wounded and sick service personnel at Warner Robbins Air Force Base.  Then there is the fiasco in Walter Reed Army Hospital.

Gingrich told the party they need to get back to their principles or be swept away in the election. Vets are an easy target. Vets make up a small percentage of the population and a tiny percentage of Congressmen.

The Republican model is Blackwater. A private Army under no control but the Dear Leaders and the wounded can be dumped. Cheaper by the dozen in the long run. They don’t need to follow the “rules.”

No more socialist VA except for Pentagon Generals who dole out the contracts and act as frontment and lobbyist for corporations which is all they are doing now anyway.

Republicans were for Motherhood before they were agains’t it: 

On Wednesday afternoon, the House had just voted, 412 to 0, to pass H. Res. 1113, “Celebrating the role of mothers in the United States and supporting the goals and ideals of Mother’s Day,” when Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kan.), rose in protest.

“Mr. Speaker, I move to reconsider the vote,” he announced.

Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.), who has two young daughters, moved to table Tiahrt’s request, setting up a revote. This time, 178 Republicans cast their votes against mothers.

Including the Minority Leader. They did vote eventually to adjourn so they can go home and throw their mothers out of their wheelchairs.

they dems should say either add this or no funding period.  but they won’t

Congratulations John Boehner.  Between rounds of golf, Scotch, low-tar cigarettes, and working on that perpetual tan, you find time to stick it to veterans.
That’s fine, continue to require our troops to hazard all they hold dear at the behest of the Republican Party and its titular decider, but leave our borders and nation in a state of near anarchy. Semper Fi you sack.  The fact that you can sleep at night without the aid of pharmaceuticals is staggering.  Who knows, maybe you can’t.

Sincerely,

Joe Clement
Former Marine Officer

Republicans are a bunch of phonies!! I served faithfully for 9 years. Never used the VA since I worked after being discharged. After bein out of work, and needing medical attention, I was refused because I made so much money the previous year. It was explained that back in 2003, the warmongers gutted the VA for airmen like me!! Support the troops my a$$

“Middle American radicals” like Sam Francis, Kevin Phillips, and a few others on the Right warned long ago that the GOP is a party of big business dedicated to providing socialistic subsidies for the cosmopolitan rich, leaving little more than scraps for Americans of the heartland who put their bodies and souls on the line for imperialist wars.  This story is only the latest wake-up call about this intellectually and morally brain-dead party.