They vote to defund health care, but they vote to keep the Army Nascar

[a kennedy]

The House has voted to let the Pentagon continue using taxpayer dollars to sponsor NASCAR race teams.

By a 281-148 vote, lawmakers rejected an effort by Minnesota Democratic Rep. Betty McCollum that would have ended the practice. McCollum aides said the Army is spending $7 million on a sponsorship this year, and the Air Force and National Guard are spending additional money.
OPEN MIKES: Should Pentagon sponsor NASCAR?
McCollum said the military spends the funds to place decals on race cars and for a few driver appearances. The armed forces hope the sponsorships will help them attract recruits.
The Navy and Marine Corps dropped their NASCAR sponsorships in recent years, saying they didn't know whether they worked.
Most Democrats backed McCollum's effort, while Republicans voted overwhelmingly against it.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/motor/nascar/2011-02-18-pentagon-army-nascar_N.htm

edit to correct grammar.

[a kennedy]

1. Rep Betty McCollum gets a death threat for trying to end the sponsorship too....

This is just wrong....

McCollum ‘undeterred’ after death threat, failure of amendment to bar taxpayer funds to NASCAR

Seeking to stop the Pentagon from using taxpayer funds to sponsor NASCAR — and earning a death threat along the way — Rep. Betty McCollum sponsored an amendment to ban such funding. By a House vote of 148 to 281, that measure failed on Friday afternoon.

The St. Paul Democrat called the expenditure of $7 million by the Department of Defense on NASCAR an “absurdity,” especially in times of government budget deficits and belt tightening.

“This was a vote about priorities and making smart choices,” said McCollum Chief of Staff Bill Harper in a statement. “With trillion dollar federal deficits this vote to protect taxpayer funded race cars shows that even a Tea Party Republican-led Congress is not serious about cutting wasteful spending. The American people need to know that a majority in Congress is willing to cut homeless veterans, community health centers, and family planning services, but spend millions of tax dollars for race cars.”

McCollum’s sponsorship of the amendment, which was part of H.R. 1, the appropriations bill to fund the federal government through September, resulted in a threatening fax that’s being investigated by Capitol police. The racist message showed the head of Barack Obama within a noose being pulled behind a pickup truck — a clear reference to the 1998 dragging death and beheading of James Byrd, Jr., an African-African man in Jasper, Texas. It called for “Death to all Marxists,” called McCollum a “slut” and told her to shut her “phucking pie hole.”

http://minnesotaindependent.com/77939/mccollums-amendment-to-bar-taxpayer-funds-to-nascar-fails

[glinda]

2. Nacsar gives to Repubs.

[Donnachaidh]

3. Cannon fodder is needed for forever wars of corporate aggression

The Army stated that the Nascar funding was for RECRUITMENT. Gotta con those dumbasses to join, so the elite's kids can attend Harvard.... :puke: