Reynolds Finally Supports Troops, Sorta
A while back we told you about the military asking wounded soldiers to give back some of their signing bonuses. Why? Because they hadn’t finished their tour of duty. Why? Because they were wounded in Iraq.
Tom Reynolds is finally signing on to legislation in the House that will stop this crappy, troop-hating practice, but as Water Buffalo Press noticed, he took his good old time doing so:
The release on Reynolds’ site also states that the Congressman “has just co-sponsored legislation,†specifically H.R. 3793, that would ensure benefits be paid to a soldier injured in the line of duty.
Seems like a no-brainer, in fact the principle that legislation is actually needed in order to establish precedents for how this White House should conduct itself in this matter seems rather absurd, but it is here that I must call Shenanigans Mr. Reynolds.
It seems Representative Reynolds did not find this policy enough of an embarrassment as recently as October 20th of this year to be an original co-sponsor of the bill but, in fairness, with the exception of Edolphus Towns neither did any of his fellow House members from New York.
However, nor did Reynolds find the policy to be enough of a “travesty†to be listed as a co-sponsor of the legislation as recently as November 15th even though 219 of his fellow legislators had found it wise to lend their names to the bill.
Reynolds’ blind allegiance to the current administration has given the man tunnel vision of such an extreme nature that he is only rattled to action by the screaming of headlines and the looming reaction to said issue of every voter of every registration within his district.
Well said.
With actions like this I wonder how any soldier can vote Republican. I also wonder if some sort of military experience would make our elected leaders more adept at understanding diplomacy since so many forego it and instead opt for military action.
Until you know the costs of war it is easy to underestimate its horrors. Modern presidents increasingly have no military experience and I fear this detachment from the actual process will lead to more war instead of less.