Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Trump Isn't Unique - All the GOP Pols Do It



Dick Cheney did the same thing.  His life matters but your kid's life doesn't.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Military Service Records of Senate Candidates


Since senators sometimes get to vote on sending America's young men and women in the armed forces off to wars in distant lands, it is perhaps informative to see how many of those senators and senate candidates themselves served in the armed forces. Here is the list. A list of other politicians' service records is available here .

State Democrat Republican
Arizona Jim Pederson: Did not serve Jon Kyl: Did not serve
California Dianne Feinstein: Did not serve Dick Mountjoy: Navy during Korean War
Connecticut Ned Lamont/Joe Lieberman: Did not serve Alan Schlesinger: Did not serve
Delaware Tom Carper: Navy 1968-73 (Vietnam) Mike Protack: Marines for 10 years
Florida Bill Nelson: Astronaut on space shuttle Columbia Katherine Harris: Did not serve
Hawaii Daniel Akaka: Army during WWII Jerry Coffee: POW in Vietnam for 7 years
Indiana Dick Lugar: Navy 1957-60
Maine Jean Hay Bright: Did not serve Olympia Snowe: Did not serve
Maryland Ben Cardin/Kweisi Mfume: Did not serve Michael S. Steele: Did not serve
Massachusetts Edward Kennedy: Army 1951-1953 Kenneth Chase/Kevin Scott: Did not serve
Michigan Debbie Stabenow: Did not serve Mike Bouchard: Did not serve
Minnesota Amy Klobuchar (DFL): Did not serve Mark Kennedy: Did not serve
Mississippi Erik Fleming: Did not serve Trent Lott: Did not serve
Missouri Claire McCaskill: Did not serve Jim Talent: Did not serve
Montana Jon Tester: Did not serve Conrad Burns: Marines 1954-62
Nebraska Ben Nelson: Did not serve Pete Ricketts: Did not serve
Nevada Jack Carter: Navy 1968-70 (Vietnam) John Ensign: Did not serve
New Jersey Robert Menendez: Did not serve Thomas Kean, Jr.: Did not serve
New Mexico Jeff Bingaman: Did not serve Allen McCulloch: Did not serve
New York Hillary Rodham Clinton: Did not serve John Spencer/KT McFarland: Did not serve
North Dakota Kent Conrad: Did not serve Dwight Grotberg: Did not serve
Ohio Sherrod Brown: Did not serve Mike DeWine: Did not serve
Pennsylvania Bob Casey, Jr.: Did not serve Rick Santorum: Did not serve
Rhode Island Sheldon Whitehouse: Did not serve Lincoln Chafee/Steve Laffey: Did not serve
Tennessee Harold Ford, Jr.: Did not serve Bob Corker: Did not serve
Texas Barbara Radnofsky: Did not serve Kay Bailey Hutchison: Did not serve
Utah Pete Ashdown: Did not serve Orrin Hatch: Did not serve
Vermont Bernie Sanders: Did not serve Richard Tarrant: Did not serve
Virginia Jim Webb: Marines 1968-72 (Vietnam) George Allen: Did not serve
Washington Maria Cantwell: Did not serve Mike McGavick: Did not serve
West Virginia Robert Byrd: Did not serve John Raese: Did not serve
Wisconsin Herb Kohl: Army Reserve 1958-64 Robert Lorge: Did not serve
Wyoming Dale Groutage: 34 years as Army/Navy/AF engineer Craig Thomas: Did not serve
Looks to me he would stand in a long line. add Sanders conscientious objector, Bill Clinton, true draft dodger [Canada} Andy

Unknown said...

OK, the lot of them are sleazebags. The biggest concern that way just now is Clinton as she has a reputation for being the most aggressive war hag around and she's never been able to make up her mind about anything (started out a Republican) except bombing things.

Anonymous said...

Hell the Koch bros thinks she is republican.

I will never understand why you waste so much time with political BS. Everyone of them lie cheat and steal. And spend money like they can just print more. Oh they do that also
They only one running that hasnt voted to increase military spending is Trump and that is because he hasnt had the chance yet

Unknown said...

The number of sports activities is dwindling and playing the pundit has the illusion of meaning something.

It's got to go as it's a world I despise but Sanders is a light inside it so I figure, well, maybe there's some reason for hope and that's like the century from now hope. I need to believe the place will be more than a smoking ruin and right now they aren't giving me a whole lot of confidence of that.

It's overwhelming madness as they beam every time another nuclear sub rolls out but that only makes me wonder do you know what a single one of these subs is capable of doing. They carry at least twenty-four nukes, each one of which can take out a city. They're probably classified as tactical nukes so they aren't even counted.

The madness overwhelms and it comes from everywhere. There was a musical force field which kept it out but doesn't work too well just now. Mostly the question is now what and there's not a good answer.

Anonymous said...

Sanders lies and spends money on the useless war machine also.
The light that blinds you is an oncoming train not a ray of hope

Unknown said...

Hope left here quite a while ago but there is hope for the country, no matter how dim that hope may be.