There are times when I wish I was a right-wing hack. If I was, I could let the title of this post stand just as it is, and attack the President for his lack of support for military families. It is true, after all. He did just veto such an act. In fact, he did it twice! Our President, a man who uses the military as a backdrop for a photo op at least once a month, just vetoed both "The Support for Injured Servicemembers Act" and "The Military Family Job Protection Act."
If I was one of the many cogs in the Right-Wing Noise Machine, I would be able to take those facts - those incontrovertibly true facts - and go on for hours about just what our President's veto says about his actual lack of support for the troops, and how thoroughly un-American it is not to support the troops, and blah blah blah blah blah. Hell, I bet I could find some way to work in a Benedict Arnold comparison within the first five minutes. (hmmm. Let's see. "And remember, folks, it's not the first time. It's not the first time that some fake general has pretended to support the troops that he commanded. Let's not forget that famous Liberal Benedict Arnold, who was encouraging the colonists to support the troops at the same time that he was selling them out to the British.")
Sadly, I'm not a wingnut noisemaker, so I can't get away with doing that. I've got a conscience, and lies of omission make it twinge in unpleasant ways. The president did veto the two acts that I mentioned today, because both of those acts were contained within the same bill that included the extension to the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) that he vetoed.
In other words, it would be wrong for me to paint the President as a man who cruelly and heartlessly vetoed laws that would have protected the jobs of people need time off when a family member is injured or wounded in the line of duty. He's just a man who cruelly and heartlessly vetoed a law that would have extended health care to millions of uninsured children.
(By the way, I really do think that health care for uninsured kids is - by far - the more important issue of the two. The focus on "support the troops" was just an attempt at channeling my inner a-hole.)
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They should all rot.
The right wingnut noise machine.
The religious zealots who have taken control of the party I am still registered with.
The fascist state is coming.
This man is shameless, first vetos a bill to give uninsured children some health care, this is bad enough but by doing that he also screws over the veterens and their families who sacrificed to fight this damn stupid war of his, he should be ashamed to show his face to the public again. I am sure all this is fine as far as the religious wingnuts are concerned, they don't give a darn about anyone but them selves and trying to screw up everyone elses life