Reply #21: i agree and i would hope that dems would quit

[ellenfl]

parroting the rw talking points on that vote. i believe the dem leadership decided to pick their fight. they already knew where this one was going and that they would be blasted for not 'supporting the troops'. until the msm starts to tell the american public which party truly supports our fighting men and women, the rw will control this conversation.

i think the dem leadership has decided to take their stand this fall with the defense appropriations bill. this makes sense because by this fall there should be more republics willing to vote with them and because this bill is a general defense bill and not specifically attached to the troops.

finally, i have a short story to tell. this spring i went to the county fair and stopped by a veterans booth which had a petition out front for some vet funding that was being cut. as i was signing the petition, i spoke with the vet behind the counter. i told him it was a crime how the republican congress kept cutting veterans' funding to which he indicated surprise and told me that he had always been a republican. i merely told him, repeatedly, to look up the voting records on veterans' issues and i assured him that he would find much more support from dems than from repugs. this surprised him and i truly hope he did a little homework. one thing we need to tell any vet we have the chance to tell . . . dems usually vote in support of vets, repugs don't. they are against ALL 'entitlements'.

ellen fl