Posted on 09/30/2013 9:33:15 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
With America in the grips of its first government shutdown in 17 years, President Barack Obama promised U.S. troops and Defense Department staff early Tuesday that he will fight for them and declared that they "deserve better than the dysfunction we're seeing in Congress."
“Unfortunately, Congress has not fulfilled its responsibility,” Obama said in a video message broadcast on Armed Forces Television. “It has failed to pass a budget and, as a result, much of our government must now shut down until Congress funds it again.”
Obama recorded the address late Monday but was broadcast after the midnight deadline to avert a shutdown. He did not directly blame House Republicans, whose insistence on rolling back his signature health care law as the price for funding the government slammed into Senate Democrats push for a “clean” spending measure.
“Those of you in uniform will remain on your normal duty status. The threats to our national security have not changed, and we need you to be ready for any contingency,” the president said. “If you’re serving in harm’s way, we’re going to make sure you have what you need to succeed in your missions.”
The president noted that he had signed legislation to make sure that troops get paid in the event of a shutdown – but that Defense Department civilians face “more uncertainty, including possible furloughs.”
“You and your families deserve better than the dysfunction we’re seeing in Congress,” he said.
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I wonder if ambassadors deserve a president that doesn’t give a sh*t if they live or die.
Is there some way to just shut down the White House?
If the government shuts down, can we make certain that Air Force One is grounded until further notice?
Stevens, Smith, Doherty, and Woods deserved better in Benghazi, didn’t they? Where the hell were you, Mr. Commander in Chief?
I heard a radio report that a Helicopter crashed carrying 5 US troops whose deployment had been extended due to Obama’s “don’t cross that red line” Syrian crisis. Don’t know further details.
You mean for the shutdown?
I keep reading that in comments here over and over.
Sometimes entire posts.
Is that bad?
The comic insult president...
The list, Ping
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No, what the troops deserve is a Commander-in-Chief that leads instead of ceding power to a Russian despot.
It’s sad when Vladimir Putin has more clout than the POTUS.
Yep.
I’ll tell you what they deserve. They deserve better than to have an islamic sympathetic man in the oval office.
but the media has the low info voter thinking that the Republicans shut down government cause (the media says) Republicans want seniors to starve and seniors and everyone to not get healthcare, and that they don't care about the military and are leaving the country unprotected.
I know that is all lies but that is what the media is brainwashing Americans with.
I'm glad the government is shut down. none of government is needed except for the military and border control and that is it , get rid of the IRS, EPA, FEC, FCC, gov schools, NASA( the global warming hoax pushers) etc.
It is kind of funny all of the hysteria from the Democrats. What are they afraid of, if I am reading them right?
Are you saying you want the government shutdown but you dont like the MSM blaming GOP for the shutdown?
That you care what a ‘low information voters’ thinks (from watching the MSM) or you don’t care?
I only ask because you seemed to be upset posting that they will blame GOP.
All that because Congress never vetted him or held his feet to the fire about his origins.
He is lucky that there is no equivalent to general Pinochet among the US military.
Troops deserve better than a “rainbow”/unicorn leadership structure.
the media will try to use the shut down to demonize Republicans . it’s about the election of 2014 .the media is trying to help democrats win the House too.
almost all the mainstream media are democrats and they contribute $ to the democrat party
They deserve more than a dysfunctional narcissist president.
I will NOT accept a shutdown inconvenience until I get the sequester horror I was promised.
Are there enough homos there yet to give him that edge?
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