Posted on 07/10/2023 7:39:06 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
The head Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee says he is worried about a flurry of “extreme right-wing amendments” attached to the House version of the annual defense bill as lawmakers prepare to debate and vote on the legislation this month. Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) told The Washington Post he was concerned about GOP measures on “abortion, guns, the border, and social policy and equity issues.”
“We’ll just have to wait and see what amendments are made in order when the bill is debated on the House floor,” he said. “Depending on which amendments pass, I will make an evaluation on whether I support the final bill.”
Smith voted for the initial $874 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) bill, which passed out of the committee in late June on a 58-1 bipartisan vote, but only after hours of fighting over amendments on culture war issues.
Democrats and Republicans on the committee clashed for hours over amendments targeting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs at the Pentagon. Smith vowed after the vote to continue the fight on the House floor.
The amendments that passed include a ban on the Defense Department funding drag shows, the elimination of the Pentagon’s chief diversity officer and a prohibition on critical race theory at military academies. Critical race theory is an academic framework evaluating U.S. history through the lens of racism.
The House Appropriations Committee, which funds the priorities listed in the Armed Services defense bill, also included several amendments to limit the Pentagon’s use of clean energy and ban a new Defense Department policy reimbursing travel costs for servicemembers who travel to get an abortion, among a wide range of others that infuriated Democrats.
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If he is worried then that is a good sign.
Remember. It’s these “Top House Armed Services Dems” that write the damned Rules of Engagement that get our soldiers, airman and Marines killed every time there’s a war. These bass turds have killed more American military people than all of America’s enemies put together. Snipers now need clearance from a shyster lawyer before they can take a shot. These bass turds thought that sh*t up.
Maybe he shouldn’t be on that committee, see Tip Oneill
Anyone notice that nobody other than Conservatives have a
problem with Centrists being called Extreme Right Wing?
The U. S. Constitution is absolute bedrock dead center.
That’s what we support. To the Left that’s hard right
wing, and isn’t that revealing. It lets you know just
how far out on the Leftist tundra they are, if they are
that far from people at the Center of the spectrum.
Has anyone in the MSM ever called AOC, Corie Bush, Barbara Lee, Jamie Raskin, etc. “far left”?
Anybody not fighting the culture war (against the queers, trannies, racists, feminists, ect.) is a coward, a traitor, or an enemy.
Extreme Far Left
No. There’s no such thing to them. You can’t be Left enough.
So what exactly is “right wing”, if not the Constitution? What could it be in the center between?
That which the left tries to define as “extreme right” is quite often left-wing.
That’s a good question.
Let’s start with what should be the dead center of our
universe. To me it would be our Founding Documents
and the ideals found in them, that our nation is set
on attaining and preserving to be true to it’s publicly
stated goals.
If we had a Socialist core, the right ring would then be
right of where the center of that nation was, and there
would be a very sparse far Left group. Today, it’s
anything but sparse.
There isn’t a robust body of Right Wing people in my
opinion.
Some would like everyone to believe that Conservatives
are close to being Hitler like. The problem is, Hitler
was a Socialist construct.
I believe truly being on the right here would have to
involve someone who tried to advocate for change that
was out of sync with the Constitution, but with a
zealous beyond the center goal toward the Right.
The problem is, you can’t go far to the right without
becoming a party to the Leftist agenda.
We do not advocate for Hitlers, or anything like them.
But that leaves “right” with no definition. Anything out of sync with the US Constitution exhibits totalitarianism of what comes from the doctrines of the left wing.
Fascism and national socialism are both left wing. There is nothing possibly “right wing” about them (remember, we still have no definition of “right” here), but everything they are about is in common with the doctrine and goals of the left. Mussolini preached that “God does not exist”, and advocated for “social justice” and redistribution. Goebbels explicitly said “The NSDAP is the German Left; we despise bourgeois nationalism” in a well-known interview.
I think we play into the hands of the Left when we happily
accept the label Right Wing for us. Adding in words like
“extreme”, “radical”, or “far” only serves to allow the Left
to marginalize us further.
Our Founding Documents are Centrist for this nation. We
advocate for them, but when we do, we do so as Centrists
in this nation. A robust Right Wing does not exist in
this nation, because our beliefs are the core of the
Founding Documents, and we support them stridently from
the Center of the Spectrum (here).
I think a lot of folks will see this differently, but I
want to advocate from a position that legitimizes our
cause. Compared to our Founding Documents, we come from
the exact same place on the spectrum. Are we to the
right of those beliefs or advocated policies? No, so
aren’t we Centrists?
Take away our Right Wing label, and the Left has nothing
to claim us to be that can be considered radical in any
way. You can’t denigrate a Centrist if his ideals are
dead on with the Founding Documents.
We are not radical, or separated from the core doctrines
of our nation.
The Left side is. If we made these points and demanded to
be heard, the Left would be out there in the cold without
an argument.
From the outside our nation would be Leftist or Right
Wing, but from inside the core documents define the
center of the nation.
In China people who don’t believe in the Communist party
are Right Wing people. In China the Left is the
Centrist party. They have no advocate from the Left
there, because the Center is the Left. If someone
backs the government, they become Centrist.
From the outside, they are Communists or Leftists.
So again, there’s no definition of “right wing” except what the left wants to use. Therefore, “center” won’t work either.
I agree there is a decent argument to be made against the
way I see it, but tell me who comes at the constitution from
the Right? Is there a body from the Right wanting the USC
tossed out? I don’t think so. So are they from the Right
or not. And what is the right, if not Centrist under these
conditions?
I think the most powerful argument against my view, is the
idea that if we were a Socialist nation, the founding
Socialist documents could be termed centrist in the
nation.
There wouldn’t be a Leftist movement trying to get the
Socialist founding documents struck down.
The only viewpoint I see barring the right-left definition is Constitutional versus anti-Constitutional.
And you may be right in that.
Labels are everything to them, refer to alynski, designate isolate and freeze them in place
Freedom and the Bible are right wing. Which creates a self limiting stable society. Liberalism and faucism and Godlessness are left wing and creates a non-limiting unstable society.
Yep. 100%.
Critical race theory is an academic framework evaluating U.S. history through the lens of racism.
How about we teach US history as it was at the time - and let people use their noggin’, (un)common sense, and critical thinking skills to realize that things then are not acceptable now.
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