The absolute nerve of Vote Vets

I’m sure many of you remember TSO’s dismantling of VoteVets last year. He showed how disingenuous they are when dealing with an inexperienced public when using their ad campaigns to attack Republicans. The flak vest story was all about Republican candidates supposedly voted against giving the troops modern body armor. The vote that they cited in several campaigns in 2006 never had a thing to do with body armor, FactCheck.org confirmed this. The that little whiney bitch, Jon Soltz accused FactCheck of abandoning the troops.

Well, here we are in 2010 and their tactics haven’t changed. dicksmith is over there claiming that Grover Norquist and the Americans for Tax Reform Smears Congressman for Supporting Vets .

Here’s ATR’s ad. Does it even mention the troops?

dicksmith wants us to look at the player screen for this single slide;

dicksmith claims that the last entry, vote #330 on May 15, 2008, was a vote “for the troops” because it contained the new GI Bill.

Here’s vote #330 from thomas.loc.gov;
330 15-May H R 2642 On Agreeing to the Senate Amendment With Amendment No. 3 P Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations Act

Wanna know what was in it besides the new GI Bill? Again from thomas.loc.gov;

Appropriations for FY2008 to the Department of Agriculture for the Foreign Agricultural Service for grants under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (P.L. 480) for emergency and nonemergency food assistance to foreign countries.

Appropriations to the Department of Justice for: (1) the Office of Inspector General; (2) general legal activities; (3) the U.S. Marshals Service; (4) the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); (5) the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); (6) the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; and (7) the Federal Prison System.

Appropriations for the Broadcasting Board of Governors for international broadcasting operations.

Appropriations for the Economic Support Fund.

Appropriations to the President for: (1) global health and child survival; (2) development assistance; (3) international disaster assistance; (4) USAID for operating expenses and for the Office of Inspector General; (5) the foreign military financing program; and (6) peacekeeping operations.

Appropriations for: (1) the Bureau of the Census (Department of Commerce) for periodic censuses and programs; and (2) the federal prison system (Department of Justice) for salaries and expenses.

Additional appropriations for the Department of Energy (DOE) for science and defense environmental cleanup.

Appropriations for: (1) Department of Labor state unemployment insurance and employment service operations; and (2) the Department of Health and Human Services for the National Institutes of Health.

Appropriations for FY2008 for the Department of Agriculture for: (1) the Farm Service Agency’s Emergency Conservation Program; and (2) the Natural Resources Conservation Service’s Emergency Watershed Protection Program.

Need I go on? I can – there look to be dozens more “appropriations” for things that aren’t related to defense.

Oh, yeah the troops are in there, way down at the bottom underneath all of that pork. I doubt anyone that had the intention to vote against higher taxes as Ben Chandler said would ever vote for this pork-laden turd. So I think Grover and his boys had every right to stick it to Chandler for lying to voters. Oh, yeah, dicksmith’s source for the bill? IAVA’s scorecard. Bedfellows.

And thanks, dicksmith, for reminding us that the Veterans Affairs Department has yet to pay ALL vets on time for their new GI Bill benefits. Even though it’s going on it’s third semester. A good idea works.

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