{"id":39536,"date":"2014-01-30T08:18:38","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T13:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39536"},"modified":"2014-01-30T08:31:24","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T13:31:24","slug":"republicans-were-played","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39536","title":{"rendered":"Republicans were played"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember how the Republicans in Congress went along with Democrats in Congress last month to slash disabled veterans and their survivors cost of living allowance? And then they broadcast their victory getting a budget passed by their willingness to work with Democrats. Well, Harry Reid is willing to restore the cut to COLA according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/defense\/the-veterans-benefits-bandwagon-is-getting-mighty-crowded-20140129\">National Journal<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sen. Bernie Sanders, a liberal independent from Vermont and chairman of the Veterans&#8217; Affairs Committee, is pushing a broad veterans measure that would restore veterans&#8217; pensions and expand their access to health care and educational benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders got a leg up Wednesday when Majority Leader Harry Reid took steps to put that legislation in line for Senate debate. And Sen. Dick Durbin, Reid&#8217;s right-hand man, said he anticipated Sanders&#8217;s bill would move to the floor soon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Are you imagining how that&#8217;s going to play out in November during the mid-term elections. Something like this; &#8220;the Republicans cut military pensions and Democrats restored them&#8221;. Yeah, if you believe that avowed communist, Bernie Sanders cares about the troops beyond their value as a campaign slogan, you&#8217;re kidding yourself. Scads of bills have been bouncing around Congress to restore the COLA cut, but Harry Reid chooses Sander&#8217;s bill to put on the floor of the Senate. Gee, I wonder why.<\/p>\n<p>So, veterans get to play the props again. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Chockblock for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember how the Republicans in Congress went along with Democrats in Congress last month to slash &hellip; <a title=\"Republicans were played\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39536\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Republicans were played<\/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":[89,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress-sucks","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39536","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=39536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}