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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Harry Reid: Putting The Troops In Danger For The Sake Of Pork

Don Surber:

A year ago, almost to the date, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada said, “We’re going to do everything we can to make sure that our troops get everything they need, everything, without any exception. But what we’re not going to do is continually fund all these contractors over there… “

Today, Reid continues to block votes on funding the war. Asked by Republican John Cornyn of Texas to yield on a bill that would fund research for ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) to finally 3 months after the deadline take up Iraq funding, Reid incredibly said no.

Here’s video of Reid’s quote from 2006:

Here’s video of Reid’s quote from today:

The war in Iraq is going well.  British troops are going home victorious.  Our own troops are more and more transitioning from combat leadership roles to support roles for Iraqi security forces.  But there’s still a lot of mission left, and Harry Reid won’t give up the funding necessary to complete that mission (and provide our troops with the supplies and equipment necessary to keep them safe) because of a petulant tantrum he’s throwing about a small bit of pork in the appropriations bill.

Reid voted in favor of the war in Iraq and thus sent our troops there.  He promised in 2006 to fund the troops.  Now he’s abandoning them over needless pork barrel spending.

Comments

Avatar for Bill Mitchell

Seriously, how must it feel to be Harry Reid?  You win control of the Senate.  You are flush with victory.  And then over the next two years, you are castrated by Bush and the Republicans at every turn.  You lose on everything and accomplish nothing.

The only thing left to you is to deny that we are winning a war that we are winning so you can keep the campaign contributions coming in from the nutroots.

History will look back on Reid/Pelosi as the weakest, most anemic and anti-American leaders in the history of the Congress.

I love it.

Bill Mitchell on December 13, 2007 at 04:22 am
Avatar for W2008

Reid/Pelosi ....they look and act like idiots !!

If you think they enrage the right ....it’s nothing compared to the BIG EMBARRASSMENT they are to the left !!

Hope they are “enjoying” their short lived majority !!

W2008 on December 13, 2007 at 04:49 am
Avatar for Leon Peek

Please let’s keep the facts straight.  First, Senator Harry Reid reintroduced the ALS Registry Act S.1382 5/14/20007.  If Junior Senator John Cornyn is concerned for ALS patients like myself, please ask him why he has not co-sponsored that bill. Please tell him he has time, ALS patients do not.
Leon Peek

Leon Peek on December 13, 2007 at 06:19 am

Leon, why is it the responsibility of the Congress to find treatments for diseases? And before you get bent out of shape my father in law died from compilcations arising from ALS. And he did not, at anytime up to his death, cry that it was the governments job to fix him. So why do feel it IS their job to fix you?

As to Reid, he has been in office since ‘87, why has this issue become so vital in the last 6 months?


Una Salus Victus Nullam Sperare Salutem

2Hotel9 on December 13, 2007 at 06:41 am
Avatar for steven

Who cares about Iraq? We’re not supposed to be there any way. Iraq has absolutely nothing to do with America. NOTHING! Amazing how people will support war & the troops regardless of what the purpose. Sickening!  Marines do the dirty work for Feminists by conquering the few remaining patriarchal nations & then spread USA Feminist Socialist Matriarchy (Read: Baskerville, Taken Into Custody) that will eventually institute misandric laws exactly like we have here in the USA ... and we support it! Men, are so stupid and deserve what they get. One more time, the Marines are simply creating more and more nations like the USA that will, in the future, be infected with Feminism, just like the USA. Only a matter of time before we see an VAWA in Iraq ... which is simply a trojan horse to use government to control men. Men are stupid, stupid, stupid and are supporting their own enslavement.

The world will soon be one Socialist Feminist Matriarchy. We’re almost there. Just a few more nations to conquer.

But, I do agree, he is “Spineless Harry Reid”.

steven on December 13, 2007 at 06:46 am

Wow, and I thought Leon was whiny.


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2Hotel9 on December 13, 2007 at 06:50 am
Avatar for Leon Peek

Nameless or 2Hotel9,
First I was trying to be a gentleman and will continue.  I got a response and that is exactly what ALS needs.  Your question of why Congress should find treatments for diseases is a bit short.  This is about finding a cure.  Congress spoke to the ALS Registry Act in October 2007 and spoke pretty loud by passing this bill 411 to 3.  You need to scold your Congressman and ask him what is he thinking? It is up to the Senate at this stage.

Ever wondered why ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) is part of the DOD budget in the first place?  For more than ten years studies have been conducted by researchers at the Veterans Administration and Harvard University.  Their findings were those deployed to the Southwest Asian theater of operations during the Gulf War are at an increased risk of ALS — that Gulf War veterans are approximately twice (50%) as likely to develop ALS as those not deployed to the Gulf.  Please support our Veterans.

Source, http://www.alsa.org/files/pdf/ALS_Military_Paper.pdf

Leon Peek on December 13, 2007 at 08:45 am

So, Pinky refusing to fund troops is supporting them? Are you actually trying to float that one? Again, it is not the Government’s job to fix you. If the VA, a massive clusterf*ck in its treatment of Veterans, is your idea of good medical research then you have worse problems than ALS.

Reid wants to tag his name on something that will make people THINK the Government is going to fix them then he can do that, right after he does his f**king job and passes a budget. And right after he mans up and slashes pork and earmarks, exactly as he said he would last year. Remember? Democrat Majority Control Will Slash Budgetary Waste And Earmarks. Seem to recall that was their big campaign issue. What happened to all that?


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2Hotel9 on December 13, 2007 at 10:11 am
Avatar for Leon Peek

"Una salus victus nullam sperare salutem” - The one hope of the doomed is not to hope for safety.

You must stick with the designated targets at all costs, even if it results in your death.

Bye-Bye 2hotel9 Godbless

Leon Peek on December 13, 2007 at 10:45 am

History will look on this Congress as another one that got duped by a criminal, war for profit administration.

ews48 on December 13, 2007 at 11:51 am

Leon Peek:
Please tell me where in the Constitution it says the Congress are empowered to force taxpayers to support any medical research whatsoever? Why do they have the right to put their filthy hands in my pocket and take my money to support medical researh or for any social program that they fancy?

Ther American people are the most generous, charitable and compassionate people on earth, just look at the hundred of millions of dollars given to MD research via Jerry’s Kids alone. When the American people perceive a need, they will rush to help those less fortunate than themselves; but when you ask the temprary occupants of Congress to take money from me that I earned without my permission, then I say to hell with every charity. I don’t have to be compassionate and giving, Harry Reid and other liberal asshats will take my money without my permission and they will be charitable and feel all good about themselves with money they never earned.

Sorry about your ALS, but approving the federal government to steal my money to help you is not charity, it is theft! Yes, you, through your elected representatives are stealing my money because you feel you deserve it more than the guy that earned it.

It is the federal government’s role to fund the military and provide for the common defense, that is in the Constitution, what is not there is yours and your elected representatives right to steal from me to help you.


No matter the age or state of health, for a military man it is always glorious to tilt at windmills, rescue a fair Dulcinea and be a gallant knight in armor in a glorious cause.

Neiman on December 13, 2007 at 01:03 pm

” You must stick with the designated targets at all costs, even if it results in your death.

Bye-Bye 2hotel9 Godbless
Leon Peek on December 13, 2007 at 12:45 pm”

Thats right, I see some idiot spewing socialist crap, I target your ass. You have no right to steal money from people because you are sick. That is anti-American on its face, and pure socialist crap by anyone’s definition. You want socialized healthcare? Tote your ass to Canada or Europe. Then you can come back here and get what the socialists don’t have.

God have mercy on your socialist ass, because I will not. Ever.


Una Salus Victus Nullam Sperare Salutem

2Hotel9 on December 13, 2007 at 04:50 pm

History will look on this Congress as another one that got duped by a criminal, war for profit administration.

More leftie victimology; you guys are never responsible for what you do, it’s always someone else’s fault.  BTW, if lefties are so easily duped, why should they ever be given any responsibity at all, don’t you think?


"If the good men are silent only the wicked are heard.” - Edmund Burke

robert108 on December 13, 2007 at 05:20 pm

r strikes at the very crux of the matter. If the Democrats are so stupid as to be outwitted by a drunken, redneck, fratboy loser why the hell would ANYONE want them to be in charge of healthcare, national security, or education. Clearly they are far too stupid to be running anything, since a complete moron like George Bush can run circles around them. What do you think real evil people would do with them?


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2Hotel9 on December 13, 2007 at 06:15 pm
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