Posted on 07/24/2020 11:47:26 AM PDT by conservative98
President Trump signaled expectations that a provision to rename military bases named after Confederate leaders will not make the final version of the National Defense Authorization Act, despite the House and Senate overwhelmingly approving such defense legislation this week with veto-proof majorities.
Trump, who previously has threatened to veto legislation to rename such bases, tweeted Friday that he's found an ally in Sen. Jim Inhofe, who serves as chairman of the Armed Services Committee that manages the bill.
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I can hear the Taliban generals crying now.
Those stupid Republicans who voted with the Democrats on this will, in 10 years or less, see the left coming to destroy their history too.
The man who addicted the deep state to opioids.
So that will be Trump’s excuse for not vetoing the bill like he said he would?
There’s something to be said for Burning Bushes.
The bill has not passed yet.
Reconciliation then a second vote before it goes before the president for a veto.
And the House was GOP for the first two years of the Trump administration.
both US Senators from Georgia voted Yes and in a quirk, both are running in November. And both lost my vote. I will vote for Doug Collins in Loeffler’s race and skip Perdue’s race. Both are in very tight races and they can sink or swim without me.
Yeah, I had forgotten that..sigh..
Here is a link to the original Senate bill, which was sponsored by Sen. Inhofe:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/4049
It is Inhofe’s bill. He messed up big time.
Good.
So, it’s more important to you that Fort Bragg continues to be named after a traitor (and possibly the most incompetent general in the Confederacy) than that our military continues to be funded?
Why do you hate our military so much?
Good!!
Thanks Senator Inhofe!!
Works for me. Light Horse Harry Lee was a true American hero, unlike his traitorous son.
Oh barf.
That still would not work for the leftists. Light Horse Harry Lee also owned slaves.
What is the point is a cowardly Congress kowtowing to modern American version of the Taliban. Those Forts were named as a effort to reconcile the country at a time the country needed it as the folks populating the services were largely southernors.
Changing the names, if it must or desired to be done, should be done in the same manner bases are closed not under the threat of rioting, by people who could give a crap about funding the military and actually hate the military. So that is just BS.
My father was career Army, and I spent my career working at a defense contractor. I deeply care about properly funding the military, especially as we have troops in active combat in Afghanistan and the Middle East.
Why do you want to veto military spending and put the lives of US soldiers (and Marines, Seamen, and Airmen) at risk? You really think that it’s more important to continue to honor traitors?
I really don’t see this as the Congress kowtowing (nice choice of words, by the way) as I see it as (finally) doing the right thing. We shouldn’t have US Army bases named after traitors.
As regards to the statement that “the folks populating the services were largely southerners”, I guess I’d like to see proof of that. Fort Bragg was established in 1918, and Fort Hood was established in 1942. Since we had the draft in both wars, I would suspect that the Army’s population would be drawn equally from all states. Since the northern states had a a larger population, I would assume that they had a higher proportion of service members.
In Vietnam, of military in country, only 25% were draftees.
A veto will force both parties to go on record for an override vote. They will have to either override or negotiate, they will not, not fund the military, don't be so childish.
Simply calling them (base namesakes) traitors gives zero appreciation to the complexities that existed in that war, at the time and today. Were you ok with Presidents Ford and Carter pardening thousands of draft dodgers and deserters (both traitors and cowards) many of whom are in government today
I do not have not problem renaming the forts or bases, as I said, but not at cost of surrendering to the mob, which is what's going on here.
You are a traitor to common sense. Grow up.
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