{"id":20731,"date":"2010-10-05T19:16:16","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T23:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20731"},"modified":"2010-10-05T19:18:08","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T23:18:08","slug":"votevets-and-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20731","title":{"rendered":"VoteVets and reality"},"content":{"rendered":"

If I researched and wrote like dicksmith over at VetVoice, you guys would tear me to pieces on a daily basis. Wait. Here’s good example; Dicksmith writes a piece entitled “Toomey Calls Troop Bonuses ‘Wasteful’<\/a>“> it’s about Pat Toomey who opposes Joe Sestak in Pennsylvania for the seat that will be vacated by Arlen Specter in the Senate. Dicksmith accuses Toomey of belittling the importance of bonuses to our troops. This is how dicksmith characterizes the comment from Toomey;<\/p>\n

During a press conference where he was challenged for his vote against a $1,500 combat bonus for troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, Toomey said he voted that way because paying troops who risk their lives for America is “wasteful” and undermined “fiscal irresponsibility.”<\/p>\n

Yeah, he actually said that. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, no, he didn’t actually say exactly that. This is how PA2010.com<\/a> described the press conference (which, by the way was back in July) and the events leading up to the statement (this is the same source that dicksmith used);<\/p>\n

The bonus was an amendment to a larger 2003 military appropriations bill that Toomey supported, and no other provisions were in that specific amendment.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow there are times when some of these measures are [used] as an excuse to undermine the fiscal stability of our country,\u201d Toomey said. \u201cThat\u2019s very bad policy. And we shouldn\u2019t hold military and veteran needs hostage to wasteful spending.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He didn’t say that bonuses were “fiscally irresponsible” – in fact if you search the page, the word “irresponsible” it doesn’t appear on the page, yet dicksmith put quotes around it as if Toomey said it. And even if he voted against it, it was an increase in spending not getting rid of bonuses all together.<\/p>\n

But you know who did want to do away with bonuses. VoteVets favorite rotting corpse – John Murtha, who has been called the soldier’s best friend. In December, 2008<\/a> Murtha said if we cut and run from Iraq we won’t need bonuses anymore;<\/p>\n

Murtha said bonuses were one area that could produce savings as forces are drawn down in Iraq. \u201cIf we draw down, we ought to be able to get rid of the bonuses,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Get rid of the bonuses”. See how I did that? I took something that Murtha actually said and then I put quotation marks around it. Surprisingly, that’s what the rest of the literate English-speaking world does, too.<\/p>\n

But, I never heard a peep out of the non-partisan VoteVets diarists…whoever they were back in those heady days before the Democrats disappointed us…again. <\/p>\n

Oh, and dicksmith actually used this line in his latest piece;<\/p>\n

Toomey’s position can only be described as “cut and run economics.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As opposed to dicksmith, Sestak and Murtha’s cut and run strategies, which actually costs lives and weakens our national security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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