Editorial sleight of hand
After a rough week for Randy Kuhl he gets a “favorable” editorial in the D&C from Lawrence and company.
Personally I found this line interesting . (my bold)
U.S. Rep. Randy Kuhl’s announcement of a new bipartisan House caucus that will address veterans’ mental health issues is an overdue step in the right direction. The idea is to create more funding and legislation that would better tend to the varied mental health needs of this country’s vets.
Of course there are the usual naysayers, those questioning Kuhl’s record on veterans issues. Nevertheless, there is merit to providing such services.
Count me as a naysayer. But is the editorial board a naysayer or are they simply blindly accepting one version? This just in -
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America rated Randy Kuhl a “D’ in terms of supporting veterans.
Are they naysayers too? Yes it is a 2006 report meaning the 109th Congress still - if Veteran issues were not important back then why now? I’ll look up or enlist some help to see where exactly Kuhl was in 2007 and 2008.
Still the question remains -
Are we doing all we can for our veterans? I’m talking beyond the current crop of Veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan. I mean listening to some Vietnam Vets discuss the ins and outs of the VA or watching the government over the years continue to drag its feet with Agent Orange or Gulf War Syndrome or will be the latest Depleted Uranium exposure. One has to wonder.
Are we really doing all we can?
Talk is cheap. The question is does the editorial board actually balance talk and action?
Randy Kuhl has a body of evidence over the past few years - a record. What exactly is that record?
Feel free to answer that in the comments.
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this is off topic, but I saw on the Greece dems web site that Bill Press is coming to speak at the Greece Marriott as a fund raiser for the Greece dems. A bit pricey though at $50 a pop., Still this seems like an important item.
What day?
Well - I suppose. Thanks for the heads up.
Thursday July 24th at 6:30 PM. Proceeds will help fund 2008’s critical races of which Greece is the epicenter. Jon Powers, Rick Dollinger, Dave Garretson. See info & buy tickets here: http://www.greecedemocrats.com
Talk is indeed cheap — and today, Kuhl talks about veterans. So, let’s see. If you’re against Kuhl, or question his record, you’re one of the “usual naysayers” — and the way Lawrence & Co. frame it, you’re now against veterans, and getting in the way of doing what’s right. Hogwash. Talk about tortured logic.
Where Kuhl’s concerned, the “usual naysayers” are precisely the ones who say we need to be doing better by Vets.
Kuhl’s doing no more than trying to innoculate himself in an area where he’s weak.
I would have bolded this part of Mr. Lawrence’s quote “Nevertheless, there is merit to providing such services.”. He makes the bait and switch … under Mr. Lawrence’s wording forming a caucus is equal to providing services.
To Mr. Lawrence … forming a caucus is not an end in itself; it has no inherent positive value … it only has value if it actually accomplishes something via legislation that is passed and signed into law. And on that issue, plus on the issue of what Mr. Kuhl learned in Brazil, we are still waiting to see something positive.