{"id":36174,"date":"2013-06-11T17:35:59","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T21:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36174"},"modified":"2013-06-11T17:35:59","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T21:35:59","slug":"you-dont-need-healthcare-but-schumer-needs-a-missile-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36174","title":{"rendered":"You don’t need healthcare, but Schumer needs a missile defense"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andy sends us a link from Bloomberg<\/a> in which the Defense Department tells little Chuckie Schumer that he doesn’t need a missile defense system in New York;<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no validated military requirement to deploy an East Coast missile-defense site,\u201d Vice Admiral James Syring, head of the Missile Defense Agency, and his Army counterpart, Lieutenant General Richard Formica, wrote Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin of Michigan.<\/p>\n

The U.S. has sites in Alaska and California. House lawmakers have pushed for an East Coast site, saying it\u2019s needed to defend against a potential attack by Iran. Senator Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, has urged that interceptors be located in his state. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Schumer says that it’s to defend against Iran (who has apparently taught burros to swim with nukes on their backs), but we all know that he wants it in case those rowdy-ass Vermonters gather at the Catamount Inn again and decide to take Fort Ticonderoga back from New York. Or something.<\/p>\n

I remember a few years back, when that Republican guy was President, the Democrats all made fun of him because he wanted to put a missile defense system on the West Coast to protect against North Korea (which seems pretty wise these days given North Korea’s ability to actually launch missiles), but now, Schumer, one of those Democrats, wants a missile defense shield against an enemy who can’t successfully launch missiles without the judicious use of Photoshop.<\/p>\n

And, oh, did I mention that Schumer thinks there’s enough money in DoD to erect his missile shield against the Green Mountain Boys, but I don’t hear him making noise to protect veterans’ healthcare from the Pentagon’s chopping block.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andy sends us a link from Bloomberg in which the Defense Department tells little Chuckie Schumer … You don’t need healthcare, but Schumer needs a missile defense<\/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":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress-sucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36174","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=36174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}