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"Had Mitt and I Won, This Would Not Be Necessary"
Slate ^ | 15 Jan 14 | David Weigel

Posted on 01/15/2014 7:21:15 PM PST by SkyPilot

The feedback continues, with a bunch of military veterans and family members asking me how I could defend the callous COLA cuts to military pensions by way of explaining why Congress is trying to undo them. Another reader email:

I strenuously object to being asked to sacrifice any more! I risked my life in two deployments to war zones, sacrificed my health (I'm also a disabled veteran), and jeopardized my relationship with my family for my country. I find Congress' latest demand a kick in the gut. We veterans and retirees have sacrificed enough without having to endure the pain of COLA cuts. Congress must first reduce the COLA for all current federal retirees (including members of Congress) and Social Security recipients and demand additional sacrifices from non-military Americans. Or better yet, I'm sure there are $6 billion that could be saved by closing corporate tax loopholes, cutting farm subsidies to wealthy corporations, etc. There are at least $6 billion in waste in the defense budget alone. The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will cost at least $400 billion, and it doesn't even work! But military veterans and retirees should be the last group Congress asks for more sacrifice.

If I've heard this much, I can only imagine what Republicans have been getting in their voicemails and inboxes. On The Hugh Hewitt Show yesterday, Paul Ryan was handed the hideous job of defending the cuts against a host who found them morally outrageous.

"Had Mitt and I won that election, this would not be required," said Ryan. "This would not be necessary."

Hewitt wouldn't have it. "This will destroy retention," he said. "It will destroy morale, and it is deeply unfair to the American military which has sacrificed more than anyone else."

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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: 2008election; 2012election; cola; election2008; election2012; hughhewitt; janesville; jcpenney; military; obamacare; paulryan; pension; randsconcerntrolls; rino; romneycare; wisconsin
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To: SkyPilot

Nothing Ryan says means anything to me.


81 posted on 01/15/2014 8:09:25 PM PST by Theodore R. (TX Republicans can't wait until March 4 to nominate Cornball and George P.!)
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To: RJS1950

I did not sit out on the vote.
Again you make huge assumptions.
You have zero idea who I voted for because it is none of your damn business - just saying.

Now run along and pester someone who cares what you think.


82 posted on 01/15/2014 8:09:54 PM PST by svcw (Not 'hope and change' but 'dopes in chains')
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To: flaglady47

Obama cant do squat without the GOP letting him. And they are. It’s a lesser evil. Ask the poster boy in the above pic, Bhoner, McColnel and the rest of the idiots like Rubio that PUSH FOR IT!


83 posted on 01/15/2014 8:09:55 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: Nifster

Be proud of what you believe. I am.


84 posted on 01/15/2014 8:10:22 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: stanne

As I recall though didn’t the veterans groups endorse AR Bill over the first Bush?


85 posted on 01/15/2014 8:12:02 PM PST by Theodore R. (TX Republicans can't wait until March 4 to nominate Cornball and George P.!)
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To: Tennessee Nana

Let them show their ass to FR again. This time they are the minority. Thank god. Hopefully Freepers will be so sick of this by the time the election comes they will cut glass this election to get rid of every lesser evil in sight.


86 posted on 01/15/2014 8:12:02 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: MrEdd

politics is not about getting into voting for one candidate over another and pointing out that people who sat out may have cost an election is NOT about SIN.

We do not live in a theocracy though we are well on our way to a dictatorship by a communist. Be as self righteous as you want to be, even Reagan was a political realist


87 posted on 01/15/2014 8:12:02 PM PST by Nifster
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To: Norm Lenhart

I am


88 posted on 01/15/2014 8:12:25 PM PST by Nifster
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To: flaglady47
As you personally embrace his policies you have the hand in it, not we who oppose them. You got and deserve exact what you voted for.

I opposed both evils but as so many embrace evil (which you proudly trumpet doing yourself) they candidates opposed to this didn't win.

The evil candidate you voted for was never going to win, because good people will not compromise and many of your fellow socialized medicine travelers and your fellow gay marriage proponents and your fellow homosexuals in the boy scouts shills and your fellow planned parenthood fans might have been willing to settle for Romney and his long established credentials on those issues but too many people like me would not vote for that under any circumstances.

So you are not now and never were in the category of having voted for a candidate that could conceivably have beaten Obama. Which makes your claim devoid of substance.

89 posted on 01/15/2014 8:12:52 PM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: stockpirate

“Cherry the problem with your statement is there is really no difference between Romney and Ryan and Obama and his dummy VP, all four and their followers have the very same agenda, New World Order socialism.”

There is no problem with Cherry’s statement. You have facilitated actual socialism in this country via Obama and his fascist minions. Romney/Ryan would NEVER have done so, and if you can’t figure that out you are either politically naive or need to get measured for a straight jacket.


90 posted on 01/15/2014 8:13:07 PM PST by flaglady47 (When the gov't fears the people, liberty; When the people fear the gov't, tyranny.)
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To: Nifster

It shows.


91 posted on 01/15/2014 8:13:26 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: flaglady47

Their records give lie to that. Especially Mitt’s. Try harder.


92 posted on 01/15/2014 8:15:45 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: ifinnegan

Hewitt is Hewitt, but I love him for going after this very important issue that people are glossing over.

His legal instincts tell him there is something very unusual and very bad about this incident.

In any case he is right. And he’ll talk to and learn a lot about vets. And when that happens, they become bound to the cause.

Marky Mark took that Luttrell story and went with it. He was on the production team. In the interview with Tapper he talks about it a little. He’s not sure how to articulate it, but he knows vets are honorable, and that their story is not told well.

What they don’t realize, even vets don’t articulate this: Vets work for the country. They preserve its foundation (the constitution) and it is so simple. Libs don’t get it because they are not simple they are about getting away from the constitution as well as any decent code of behavior and ethics.

Hewitt is on a learning curve.

He was so passionate about Luttrell’s story when his book came out years ago, and he is hooked on the cause.


93 posted on 01/15/2014 8:16:06 PM PST by stanne
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To: Theodore R.

AR Bill?


94 posted on 01/15/2014 8:16:40 PM PST by stanne
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To: stanne

AR Bill = Arkansas’ Bill Clinton


95 posted on 01/15/2014 8:17:18 PM PST by Theodore R. (TX Republicans can't wait until March 4 to nominate Cornball and George P.!)
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To: Theodore R.

Are you kidding?

He was a draft dodger.

NOO!!


96 posted on 01/15/2014 8:18:30 PM PST by stanne
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To: Norm Lenhart

just cut the nonsense. you have a political view point. good for you. I have a political view point. They do not match.

I am not your enemy even if you do think I am the lesser evil. I am and always have been a solid conservative (don’t know how long you have been voting but my first vote was for Goldwater). I don’t like incumbents particularly in the congress.

I will remain


97 posted on 01/15/2014 8:18:55 PM PST by Nifster
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To: Norm Lenhart; MinuteGal

“Obama cant do squat without the GOP letting him.”

It’s pointless debating with someone so politically ignorant. The Dems have the Senate, the Presidential veto, and a Prez who can issue executive orders at whim. The Prez/Dems also have the MSM on their side, and most of the Courts. And you say the GOP could stop them? I suggest you try living in another country for a while. You need an attitude adjustment.


98 posted on 01/15/2014 8:19:07 PM PST by flaglady47 (When the gov't fears the people, liberty; When the people fear the gov't, tyranny.)
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To: stanne

He was a draft dodger.
___________________________

So was Willard...

but veterans still endorsed him


99 posted on 01/15/2014 8:20:38 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Blood of Tyrants

His place was being a ringer. Same as McCain. Stopping a Conservative from opposing the uniparty cabal in the Republican primary.


100 posted on 01/15/2014 8:20:56 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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