Posted on 07/01/2003 4:43:18 PM PDT by Criminal Number 18F
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:04:37 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Sen. John Edwards, North Carolina Democrat, is single-handedly blocking Senate action on legislation all but unanimously supported by the House to ease the student-loan burden for soldiers fighting overseas.
In April, the House voted 421-1 to pass the HEROES Act, which essentially would defer student loans for soldiers called into action. The only dissenting vote was cast accidentally by one of the bill's sponsors.
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
Never forget that the Democrats are the party of unilateral disarmament, appeasement, defunding of defence, and abuse of servicemen and women. Clinton says he "loathes" the military and his party rank and file are right there with him.
It was Democratic politics that "blew" the stealth bomber; Democratic ideology that would have condemned the innocents of Central America to the cruel rule of Communist dictators; Democratic foreign policy that gave us American soldiers mutilated in the streets of Mogadishu; Democratic politics that tries to negate military absentee votes; and now, a Democratic candidate that goes out on a limb to screw soldiers -- mostly low-ranking enlisted kids -- serving in a combat zone, so he can score points, presumably with the radical left he needs in primaries. Do you see a pattern emerging?
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
Not that what Edwards is doing is any less loathsome or anything...
...but do they have to give all their bills such STUPID "names"? Is HEROES supposed to be an acronym, like PATRIOT? For crying out loud. It's like these bills are being named by double-agent saboteurs who want them to be criticized... sheesh.
Yesterday, however, Mr. Briggs acknowledged that his boss was stalling the bill.
Well, was he lying then or is his lying now?
To quote the great Bryant Gumble - "What a f***ing idiot!"
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