Posted on 05/13/2016 8:32:22 AM PDT by Da Bilge Troll
Pregnant, female, Navy SEALs was something many of us used to joke about as a way of exaggerating the absurd social engineering in the military. Yet, placing women in special operations and direct combat units has now become a reality under the Obama-led Pentagon. Sadly, not only have Republicans like John McCain refused to use their perches on the Armed Services Committees in the House and Senate to block this social engineering, they are now codifying it with a provision that could lead to a mandatory draft of all women. Earlier this week, I noted that the final House version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) contained a provision for the first time ever including young women in the requirement to register for Selective Service. However, this provision was only added because of a strategic mistake of the committee chairman who thought the members would vote down this absurdity. He was just trying to make a point. John McCain, on the other hand, who is chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, deliberately placed that provision in his chairman's mark of the NDAA, according to a Senate staffer.
I am further told by Senate staff that it is unlikely an amendment to strike this provision will even succeed on the floor of the Senate, which means a majority of that body now supports drafting women. The only hope to stop this is on the House floor. Have we gone mad as a society?
Any vestige of GOP opposition to Democrat social transformation is now gone. There is no floor. Battle lines that used to hold for decades are now plowed through by Democrats in a matter of one committee markup. A party that stands for nothing, indeed.
Update: A Summary of the NDAA from McCain's office defends the provision to include women in Selective Service as follows: "Because the Department of Defense has lifted the ban on women serving in ground combat units, the committee believes there is no further justification in limiting the duty to register under the Military Selective Service Act to men." Thus, McCain believes that because a few liberal social groups and Obama's politically appointed generals want to include women in combat on a voluntary basis, the Senate should therefore require all women to potentially register for the draft. And instead of debating this earth shattering social transformation publicly in a standalone bill, McCain decided to slip in the provision to a 1,000-page bill authorizing all defense programs.
Another disturbing provision in this bill establishes an independent National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service. The commission is tasked with, among other things, to "consider how to foster a sense of service and civic responsibility among the nation's youth, improve military recruiting, and increase the pool of qualified applicants for military service and their propensity to serve." While this provision sounds innocuous, some conservatives might be concerned that given McCain's long record of support for Americorps and other public service programs, he will use this program to compel young adults (now including women) into some sort of public service.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), who sits on the Armed Services Committee, was so vehemently opposed to this provision that he voted against the underlying bill. In a statement provided to Conservative Review, the Texas senator noted that although the committee adopted 12 of his amendments related to an array of foreign policy and national security issues, he could not "in good conscience vote to draft our daughters into the military, sending them off to war and forcing them into combat." "I will continue my efforts to speak out against the effort to force America's daughter into combat," wrote the former presidential candidate in a statement.
Update: Sens. Mike Lee and Deb Fischer also voted against final passage. Sen. Lee called this provision "misguided and ill-advised" in a statement he released tonight. He also opposed the bill because it continues the program funding the Syrian rebels. "The bill authorizes the continuation of the Syria Train and Equip program, which was suspended last year after expending hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer money to train only four or five fighters and finance the purchase of weapons that were ultimately seized by Al Nusra, the Syrian Al Qaeda affiliate," wrote Lee. "I firmly believe that the American counter-ISIS strategy must be reconsidered from the top-down and that we should not fund failing programs."
agreed, women want to be treated the same then they can be treated the same and be drafted and taken away from their families and work and lets see how they like it.
you are buying into that women are feminists who want to be treated equality.
They do not, they want special right and they certainly do not want to be drafted.
Now if our side would wake the hell up and say that fine you want equality then good you are now treated like a man then you would see these women running form their equal rights crap.
agreed
When you’re out of Schmitz, you’re out of gear!
"I am a gentleman. I love liberty and I HATE equality!"
Better yet: No one’s daughter gets drafted and no one’s son gets drafted either and we permanently shut down the Selective Slavery System. If a POTUS wants to fight a war, he should have to PERSUADE the potential troops that they want to fight his war. No one has a higher stake than the soldiers, sailors, air force and marines. No one.
“Fair” is “the four letter “f” word. As I told my children (always it is children who jump first to whine about “fairness” in order to gain advantages), “fair” is a word not to be used in polite company.
Is Kelli Ward making this an issue? I don’t see how she can prevail in such an incumbency-minded climate.
He probably can win again: people in AZ are as confused as their distant cousins in SC.
Just as men trooped down to military recruitment offices in immediate response to Pearl Harbor, so too will men volunteer for any just war. Having to CONVINCE them of that justice, constricts the politicians' grandiose views of themselves and threatens to turn corrupticans and corruptocrats alike into (gasp!) public servants rather than dictatorial bosses.
John Randolph of Roanoke wouldn’t even recognize VA any more, much less the USA. People in VA have moved hard left and are likely to stay that way with new voters coming from the prisons.
Agreed. There are a couple States I just can't figure out - they have every reason to vote republican/Conservative and, at least in the General Elections, have given the WH to some really lousy/evil candidates. I get that Ohio is one of the founding homes of the KKK and has a lot of Union shops, so has a long Democrat history (and never seems to learn anything no matter how bad the dem "president" is), but what's up with Pennsylvania?
John McPain always talks about “my friends”; Jack F. Kemp spoke of “our Democratic friends”. Neither could do anything in a national election.
Philadelphia fraud can hold PA even if Trump does well elsewhere among Keystoners.
True - they seem to have results where 120% of the registered voters vote and with 100% of them going Dem....
Hmmmm, involuntary servitude...?
How about it is simply a way to “pay back’ or “give back” to the country which has provided so much to so many? Now you can say people pay taxes for what they get and that can be a valid argument. But isn’t paying income taxes also a form of servitude? Is it even Constitutional?
How about this. Those who ‘take” and never give, such as the almost 50% of Americans paying no income tax, must give 2 yrs of their lives in the military AND as long as they pay no taxes be kept in the active reserves?
For you to even believe there is no need for a standing military is absurd. Should there be what you deem a “righteous war” what do you think it would take in terms of time to build from scratch a force prepared to engage an enemy?
It must be different where you are. I routinely perform all those little courtesies for strange women (and men, if the situation warrants) and have never once met with scorn. I live in the south, but would behave just the same anywhere else. I hear of this rudeness so I know it must be true, but have never witnessed it.
America is losing her soul along with her women. Our leaders and huge swaths of our population can no longer tell right from wrong or even give a crap which is which.
I have been to the South and there is a HUGE difference in the way people treat each other and I mean REALLY he.
I was literally dumbfounded the first time I went to NC in search of a second home. Everyone I came across whether in doing some sort of business such as a purchase, or simply passing on the street would smile and wish me a “good morning” or afternoon or evening. Smiles all around and all the time.
I was actually suspicious of these people being so kind and friendly because where I was from the only time people were overly nice and friendly was when they were looking to take something from you (New York, New Jersey area.
Candor7, with each virgin there will be a mother-in-law.
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