Look up Congressman Steve Daines. He writes that VA disability payments are not affected by this shutdown. Now, new claims might be a different matter. The right thing for the Obama administration to do would be to approve all new claims and all appeals. They did it for those make-believe pig farmers. They should do it for real Veterans.
“So far, the Senate’s Democratic caucus has remained united. Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana is facing reelection in 2014, but she isn’t breaking from her party on the stopgap funding bills. Asked Thursday morning at a press conference if she would vote for the NIH or veterans affairs bills, Landrieu told THE WEEKLY STANDARD, “I would not.”
“This cannot be done by piecemeal and should not be done by piecemeal. What part is more important than the next?” Landrieu said.
“Many of us could argue while those might be important issues, and they are, what’s more important than millions of small businesses who undergird the entire economy of the United States?” Landrieu asked, flanked by a group of small business owners.
Landrieu said that “the Tea Party has to understand that they cannot hold government and our private partners—which are many from big companies like Boeing and Lockheed to small companies that are represented here—hostage over their inability to get a law that they don’t like amended.”
“It is my hope—my hope—that many brave men and women in the Republican”
Petty. She, Harry Reid and the rest of the Democratic Caucus now OWN this shutdown.
And the fact that she wants to pick on tea party Americans only make her look petty.
The Republicans just have to stay strong and NOW blame Democrats, and they’ve painted them into a corner (which they were busy doing anyway with the Obama Administration closing parks, military sporting contests, and on and on)..
It sucks to be Chuck.