Empowering Veterans, Inc. Unveils its "Worst 10" Senators

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Empowering Veterans, Inc. Unveils its "Worst 10" list of incumbent Senators up for reelection in 2008. These people are very pious in the "Support the Troops" rhetoric, but most hypocritical when it comes to voting to support members of the Armed Forces and their families and veterans and their families.


Empowering Veterans Unveils it "Worst 10" List of Senators

My name is Ralph Parrott. I am a 65 year old retired Navy Supply Corps Captain and retired businessman from Fairfax Station, Virginia. I served in the US Navy from March 1963 until September of 1990, over 27 years.

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The "Worst 10" on issues relating to members of the Armed Forces and their families and veterans and their families are:

Alexander of Tennessee
Chambliss of Georgia
Cochran of Mississippi
Coleman of Minnesota
Cornyn of Texas
Dole of North Carolina
Graham of South Carolina
Roberts of Kansas
Sessions of Alabama
Sunnunu of New Hampshire

more
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/2/20/91939/0056

[porphyrian]

1. Kick to keep exposing this bullshit. - n/t

[Edith Ann]

2. Senators

I just passed out. Imoff of Oklahoma isn't on the list.

[DinahMoeHum]

3. The website is up and running. . .

www.empoweringveterans.org

:patriot:

[peacetalksforall]

4. Normie scored!

Which post-Congressional job is waiting for him?

[wryter2000]

13. Hey, I missed that the first time around

Can you say Senator Franken?

[mconvente]

5. Wow, their ALL republics... gee, there's a concept...

So who really supports the troops - I think a great majority of the American people know it's the Democrats.

[blm]

6. This is the truth - something the corpmedia will NOT acknowledge.

.

[In Truth We Trust]

7. Hypocrisy thy name is repug...... nant

[napi21]

8. I just sent MY Senaator, Saxby, an email, congratulating him on

making it to the TOP 10!

I sent him the link to the actual article with the map, and then asked him is this made him PROUD!

AH! I know I won't hear from him, butit made me feel better to at least tell him how much we really LIKE him!

[waiting for hope]

9. Thanks for the idea! Did the same:

Congratulations! You made the Top Ten Senator Dole:

http://www.empoweringveterans.org/

NEVER SERVED IN THE MILITARY AND IS NOT SERVING THEM NOW
Awarded a Grade of D- by the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America
Awarded a Rating of 0% in 2004 by the Disabled American Veterans
Awarded a Rating of 42% in 2005 by the Disabled American Veterans
Awarded a Rating of 60% in 2006 by the Disabled American Veterans
The Lives of Military Personnel OR Tax Cuts for the Rich Dole voted “NO” to:
$25.41 Billion for increased military procurement of equipment.
(S Roll Call 008, 02/02/2006)
$16.9 Billion for increased Army maintenance funding.
(S Roll Call 008, 02/02/2006)
$4.5 Billion for increased Marine Corps maintenance funding.
(S Roll Call 008, 02/02/2006)

Please do not run in 2008 and allow a deserving member of society fill your slot. Governor Easley would fit just nicely!

[anitar1]

34. Didn't dear Libby get into murky waters when she

was head of the Red Cross. Seems as if there were some financial questions, if I recall correctly. she resigned soon after that.Nothing more was heard about the matter. edited for spelling

[AzDar]

10. Kick! n/t

[Initech]

11. They left out McCain and Lieberman.

[wryter2000]

12. K&R

I want to hear those fuckers tell me again how *I* don't support the troops.

[AX10]

14. And of course they are ALL REPUBLICANS!

k/r

Coleman and Sunnunu can be ousted next year!

[SpiralHawk]

17. Republicons HATE troops and veterans of the US Armed Services

They love to honk the patriot horn, but they vote against the troops and veterans over and over and over, so they will have more money to give to their fat-cat war-profiteer republicon cronies.

[sofa king]

20. Wars are cheaper if the soldiers don't survive them.

Therefore, the Republicans skimp on protection for the troops in the field and caretaking after they return broken and insane.

After all, troops, like oil and profits, are fungible.

[SpiralHawk]

21. Oh, I see, that's why they fancy themselves conservatives!

They conserve by skimping on our sons and daughters in uniform, giving them shitty subpar equimpment manufactured by fat cat War Profiteering republicon cronies, and they 'conserve' by giving shitty, or no, health care and benefits for our veterans. That leaves more gravy for the republicon war profit pigs. Very clever. Very traitorous.

[sofa king]

25. Fuckin' A.

This might be a good time and place to bring up two-time Congressional Medal of Honor winner and military coup (in America) foiler Smedley Butler.

In his blunt treatise War is a Racket, Butler proposed a few simple measures which would almost certainly reduce the numbers of wars-for-profit that Americans were already notorious for starting. One suggestion was to "conscript" the war industries in time of war--that is, eliminating profits and paying everyone, especially the executives, the same as a private in the U.S. Army. Another was to have the soldiers themselves vote on whether or not to have the war. A third suggestion was to restrict the defense budget to the point where an offensive war is no longer feasible.

I'd like to go a step further and have mandatory conscription for the children of all current and former Members of Congress and Senate-approved employees of the Executive Branch. I'd also like to see a universal wartime profits tax of 100% above the salary of a middle class American.

If you make people pay to fight instead of profit from it, I suspect the world will become a much, much more peaceful place.

[TahitiNut]

27. That's not true. They don't 'hate' the veterans.

They're indifferent to them (like a jogger is indifferent to ants on their path). But they LOVE the money and the PROFITEERING from the death and injury to others!!

[Bitwit1234]

15. One more reason for Franken to run in Minnesota

[marmar]

16. Gee, and they're all "We Love the Troops" Repugs...

Making the world safe for hypocrisy.

[MasonJar]

18. I believe it, but how come Mitch isn't on there? n/t

[MissMarple]

19. Seven of them are from the south.

Lindsay Graham and Lizzie Dole?

I'm guessing the freepers are busy dissing Captain Parrot for picking on their congress critters.

[peacetalksforall]

23. And Graham was a military lawyer? I don't know how that creature

manages to spill words that make him sound compassionate and a little normal. He is not. He will always be remembered by me for his unusually enthusiastic mission to castigate Clinton with his little sneers and 'hard, pompous work'. Wasn't he the one in a team who delivered the House verdict to the Senate? What an uppity moralistic pontificator. Now we know just how moralastic he is.

[saigon68]

37. He is the evil spawn of the devil

[Penndems]

26. Any right-winger attempting to besmirch Ralph's character is wasting his/her time

I know Ralph and his spouse personally. We worked together securing signed petitions getting Jim Webb on the ballot in Virginia, and throughout the primary.

Ralph and his wife are honorable, decent people of the highest integrity. Too bad the same thing can't be said of the Congressional Representatives and Senators named on Ralph's website.

[UTUSN]

22. K&R. The usual suspects, but Biddy DOLE? da Viagra's been straying? n/t

[Canuckistanian]

24. All southern Senators, except for Sunnunu, Roberts and Coleman

Why do they hate the troops?

I think it's time to reveal their contempt for real service men and women.

And thanks for revealing your identity.

[PhilipShore]

28. Kick

:nopity:

[PinkyisBlue]

29. Sununu was the Repub. caught up in the phone-jamming scandal in NH.

Wonder if he would have won without cheating?

He has every reason to be afraid of being thrown out of office next year. In the recent election, our two Repub Representatives (Bass and Bradley) were defeated by Democratic candidates. There seems to be every indication that voters are not happy with Sununu either. The only good thing I can say about Sununu is he's better than our other Repub Senator, Judd Gregg.

[rodeodance]

30. HA HA--------so the Repugs SUPPORT the troops Huh??????

[rodeodance]

31. Tony Snow says Bush "certainly was aware" of conditions at Abu Reed Building 18

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3123976&mesg_id=3123976

Tue Feb-20-07 03:10 PM
Original message
Tony Snow says Bush "certainly was aware" of conditions at Abu Reed Building 18 Updated at 5:06 PM

Snow: President Bush ‘Certainly’ Was ‘Aware Of The Conditions In The Wards’ At Walter Reed

In today’s press briefing, a reporter asked White House Press Secretary Tony Snow about the Washington Post’s two-part series over the weekend, highlighting the Walter Reed hospital’s dilapidated conditions. Snow stated that “the president certainly has been aware of the conditions in the wards where he has visited, and visited regularly.” Snow also affirmed that the administration was aware of Walter Reed’s conditions “before the articles appeared in the paper.” Watch it:

The Army began repairs on the facilities yesterday, only after the media reports and intense public criticism. Apparently, Bush is fine with U.S. troops living in squalid conditions — as long as no one else knows about it.

(The Progress Report has more on the state of veterans under the Bush administration. Read it and sign up to receive the newsletter HERE.)

More:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/20/bush-walter-reed /

[nam78_two]

32. Oh wow-what a surprise-they are ALL Republicans

Not...

There ya go Freepers...your party really "supports the troops" doesn't it :eyes:?

[rucky]

33. Well then the troops must hate the troops.

Why else would you speak out against a prowar republican senator?

[nadinbrzezinski]

35. Why am I having images of Star Ship Troopers?

keep pushing you assholes... and you just may get it

[SalmonChantedEvening]

36. All lapel pins, no action. n/t

[Straight Shooter]

38. There should be a lapel pin for Congress critters who have actually served.

Or a lapel pin for those who have children currently serving.

That way, when they get up in public and start spouting off about escalating the war, or "standing down when Iraqis stand up," and other such bullshitsical nonsense, we can look at their lapel and see whether they know from firsthand experience what war is really all about.

McCain is a weird one, though. He's lost control of his mental faculties. We can paste the lapel on his forehead to show the extent of how seriously some men can be damaged by the ravages of war, particularly when combined with blind political ambition.

edit to add: SalmonChantedEvening, we can call the "all lapel pin, no action" Congressmen, "Lapel Republicans." Sounds French, too :)

[SalmonChantedEvening]

39. Mais Oui! Certainement!

McCain never thought all this posturing would would be necessary when running a Catering Business. Weathervane politics in action, that man.


I always try to make in clear when I speak of service, I tread lightly. I have never served, and I glean the nature of it solely from those accounts vets would speak of. What matters most to me is the dignity that these people deserve is being taken away from them by a corporate bungler and his cashbag junkie pals. I can scream at the top of my lungs that bunnypants is an inept idiot without fear because of the people who serve and defend that wondrous liberty.


There is no way to justify what is being done.