Reply #10: words are cheap.

[The Brethren]

'“an emergency request is unnecessary in this tight budget year.”'

could that be because the chimp keeps throwing our money into the war in Iraq like there's no end to the fiscal budget? But of course, when it comes to actually helping vets...and ordinary Americans: "Sorry, but we're all out of cash. Try again tomorrow."

"Yet somehow the Senators themselves receive health care from the federal government, and their health care isn’t rationed."

I think we should remove health care to Senators from their federal benies and let them haggle with Insurance companies over the lowest rates. And then they can tell us how wonderful our health care system is.