Draft dodger can’t see the irony of his own words

Harry Reid (a draft dodger if you use the same standard the Left uses for Dick Cheney) rejected the latest Republican proposal to prevent the government shutdown for another week. The proposal would have paid the Department of Defense for the entire year and funded government for another week. Politico quotes Reid;

“Instead of solving the crisis the way we should, instead of saying ‘yes’ .. what they’re going to do is pass what they’ll call another short-term stop-gap measure,” Reid said of the Republicans. “They’ll say it’s short-term but what that really means is it’s a short-cut around doing our jobs. Instead of solving problems, they’re stalling. They’re procrastinating. That’s not just bad policy, it’s a fantasy.”

And Reid should know since his Senate hasn’t passed a budget in more than two years. In fact, since Reid took charge of the Senate in 2007, that body has only passed two budgets.

“We want to avoid a shutdown and the terrible consequences that would follow. The only thing Republicans are trying to avoid is making tough choices,” Reid said on the floor.

Tough choices. Like the Republican plan to cut $40 billion from the budget instead of the meager $33 billion Democrats want to cut.

And of course, dicksmith at VoteVets blames Republicans;

It shouldn’t be. The new majority are slaves to the radical tea party wing of their party. Although I don’t like the guy, I’ve got to think that Speaker Boehner is at least sane enough to know that troops who are in harms way deserve to get payed so their families back home aren’t getting evicted and having their cars repossessed. But then there is the new dominant influence in their caucus. The one made up of war criminals and reality TV stars. These are the lowlifes that actually want a shutdown and aren’t real concerned with whether or not a Soldier can put food in his kids’ mouths.

Who is actually responsible for not paying the troops? The Republicans have proposed at least two measures that would continue paying military families – both were rejected by the Democrat Senate and the President. But I guess I can’t expect reality to disturb that “non-partisan” cloud that envelopes the post-Jon Soltz VoteVets.

Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Congress sucks