I really can't figure out why you keep posting. You turn a deaf ear to any kind of contrary argument without regard to its validity or rational basis in fact. You consistently demonstrate paranoia and hatefulness. Are you posting just to get it out or do you actually think you might persuade somebody to agree with your viewpoints?
It's dumbfounding, really. At this point, it's just like reading a transcript of a crazy street person's deranged ramblings.
Is there some other goal?
Well, initially it was to turn the discussion on TNF away from GOP suck ups who were blinded by their jingo.
Over time, it's been fun to slip in some real news. And this devil loves to play a shenanigan now and then.
Please back this up: " You consistently demonstrate paranoia and hatefulness". Is that your defense of Coburn's actions? To attack a third party. FOTD is no Veteran but he will put them before himself.
FOTD picks the good fights where something else is more important than fear. He needs not his own blog when sites are available with access to people who truly believe in Tom Coburns rhetoric.
Tom Coburn is afraid America will be broke in 40 years. He has NO confidence. He spreads his fear. He uses his position to make a point on budgeting based on nothing but a shrinking government mentality while our Vets suffer physically, mentally and socially.
Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA), the highest-ranking veteran elected to Congress, told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow he was extremely frustrated with Coburn's example of the disconnect between war funding and troop care:
"This is politics at its worst. It's what most irks me about Washington D.C. Somehow, they think strength is purely military force, not understanding it's our people. And they have forgotten that, particularly in this case."
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) told Politico that he had trouble understanding how "illogical" Coburn was being by holding up this bill after refusing to oppose other war spending:
"Where was he when we were spending a trillion dollars on the war in Iraq?" Reid asked. "That wasn't paid for. I didn't hear him stopping the bill from going forward at that time. I think he should become more logical and understand we have people who are suffering."
Paul Rieckhoff, founder and director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, had this to say to MSNBC's Keith Olbermann about this lawmaker:
"He's isolated here. This isn't even the GOP. This is one senator standing in the way of the most comprehensive health reform and health benefits package for caregivers, the wives, husbands, grandmothers, parents, who are caring for the most severely wounded folks. They are really under tremendous pressure and tremendous stress, and they need stress counseling themselves. That's a part of this bill. And he's very isolated.
Every veterans group has lined up against him on this and he's got to back down. We hope the American people will pressure him to do just that. "
Again, if we cannot afford to care for veterans, we cannot afford to be at war.