{"id":19608,"date":"2010-07-01T07:46:58","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T11:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19608"},"modified":"2010-07-01T07:48:09","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T11:48:09","slug":"republicans-block-homeless-vet-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19608","title":{"rendered":"Republicans block Homeless Vet Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I just wonder about people. VetsVoice has a video up of Patty Murray doing her &#8220;for the children&#8221; line in regards to her bill, the Homeless Women Veterans and Homeless Veterans with Children Act (S.1237). <\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/riNOnsbI6bQ&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xd0d0d0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/riNOnsbI6bQ&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xd0d0d0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The title of the video is &#8220;Republican Senators Blocks Homeless Veterans Bill&#8221; and based on the title, dicksmith goes on a tear &#8211; obviously without watching the video.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I never thought that the Party of No would use homeless Veterans and their children as a political football. Apparently, no matter what we owe to Veterans and their families, nothing is sacred to these disgusting Senate Republicans<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At about :40 into the video, put on YouTube by the DNC, by the way, Mitch McConnel explains why Republicans oppose the bill &#8211; they want it paid for up front instead of letting the Democrats make a promise they don&#8217;t intend to keep. Is there something wrong with that? Obviously, the Democrats were just making an empty gesture that they plan on reneging upon later if they object to funding it upfront.<\/p>\n<p>After watching this administration try to make service-connected military members pay for their own health care and leaving thousands of veteran college students hanging out to dry with no benefit checks for an entire semester, I think I&#8217;d ask for money upfront for homeless funding, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I just wonder about people. VetsVoice has a video up of Patty Murray doing her &hellip; <a title=\"Republicans block Homeless Vet Bill\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19608\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Republicans block Homeless Vet Bill<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-congress-sucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}