Posted on 10/09/2013 10:50:26 AM PDT by abb
Edited on 10/09/2013 10:52:26 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
A "very disturbed" President Obama has ordered his top aides to restore death benefits today for families of military service members killed in action.
"The president was very disturbed to learn of this problem," said White House press secretary Jay Carney. "The president expects this to be fixed today. He was not pleased."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Amen. Obomba's worried that he'll miss out on a few rounds of golf if he allows the families of dead solders to share in what he perceives is his "piece of the pie."
What an a*****e!
Well, they got that one right!
This is whay The Koch Brothers, Trump and other GOP billionaires are idiots for not buying up as many TV networks as they can
The Original Angry Turd.
Commandante Zero’s steaming turd of a SecDef chose today to make his fisrt appearance at Dover AFB in 8 months. He is no more fit to serve than his boss.
"The president was very disturbed to learn of this problem," said White House press secretary Jay Carney. "The president expects this to be fixed today. He was not pleased."
What a bunch of RAT bastard liars & reprobates, led by the liar in chief, 0dumb0shit! The only reason the death benefits are being restored is because even 0dumb0shit realized the American people might, just might, start to hold him accountable for the pain being inflicted on the American people because of the shut.
The gubmint could lay off fully 50% (or maybe even 75%) of the federal employees, not including the active military, and it would not affect us in the least. Instead 0dumb0shit's marching orders are to inflict pain upon the American people with his petty, vindictive actions. But withholding the death benefits? Yes, the liar in chief blinked and caved as he should have done from the very start.
No way I can take the blame for this, and those damned House Republicans are managing to blame it all on me. Damn. I am not pleased with the poll and focus group figures. Better order them to fix this now and sound all presidential.
An earlier edition of the New York Times cited DOD spokesperson as saying that Pentagon and DOD attys had conferred with the Dept. of Justice lawyers as well as White House Legal Advisors before withholding the payments.
[ Note: The current version @NYT has the same title but has been dramatically edited since the resulting fire storm swept the country. I stand by my earlier post citing the NYT article. Sadly I neglected to post the url or include a cut and paste direct quote. After all my years here, I should have known better. ]
I'll believe it when the checks clear, Laz. Until then, he hasn't "backed down" one effin' inch.
He got the first part he wanted: I don't think the families of the dead soldiers were at Dover, but Hagel was. He wanted to exclude them, and he did. We still haven't heard if anybody's been paid or if proper funerals have been arranged.
We're still in the "Obastard has promised" phase of the rehabilitation of this story. Screw him, no matter what he does it won't be good enough. (Spit!)
Excellent. :)
How did the smartest guy in the world not know this.
/s
media took a few seconds to come up for air from between his ass to “report” (ie bleat) it.
I agree with “the president is very disturbed”.
Good one. 199
what a TERRIFIC rewrite of that great song!Brought back a lot of memories!
This vile POS is only angry, because he and his thugs got caught with this thuggery and exposed by Megan Kelly on Fox Last night.
In deference to the happy Bowbama who took them away.
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