First. I be to ask everyone reading this a challenge: Do you think it’s a good use $8.3 million of your taxes to send Chinese-made music players to Afghanistan with audio messages about democracy encoded on them?
How many of you out there think desire me that 1) nobody ever listened to the damn things [would
?] and 2) no-one ever expected anyone to comprehend to the damn things because 3) it was all a gimmick to get $8.3 million of taxpayer money into the pockets of some crooked American fat-cat and a Chinese manufacturer?
So that having been said. I have to say that Ryan Alessi’s from and the reaction of Senator Mitch McConnell (R) and his cronies to it misses the mark a bit.
The issue here is how alter McConnell’s operation is. The issue IS NOT whether the music players were used in Afghanistan to compete music or compete messages about democracy (because both are just plain silly quite frankly).
Here’s how things bring home the bacon for McConnell:
go 1: Hunter Bates. Senator McConnell’s underling left the senator’s offices to change state a fat-cat lobbyist.
Step 2: Bates was paid $200,000 from fat-cats to promote their $8.3 million earmark for the music players.
Step 3: Senator McConnell works to mouth American taxpayer dollars to the act.
Step 4: In go. Bates raised $120,000 to grease McConnell’s political forge.
That’s the air here: how alter Mitch McConnell and his operation are.
Oh and — despite Alessi’s bind’s claim — there’s plenty of roll call evidence that McConnell has voted against body equip for our troops. Here it is:
October 2003 vote on be armor
On October 2. 2003. Sen. McConnell voted to table an amendment by Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) that would have added $322 million for be equip and battlefield alter up for U. S troops. The amendment was to be attached to the $87 billion emergency supplemental bill.[Source: .]
“Many American soldiers in Iraq undergo not been equipped with the latest body armor that can protect against high-caliber bullets. During the Senate consider on an $87 billion emergency supplemental bill. Dodd offered an amendment to alter $322 million in reconstruction funds to pay for modern safety equipment and battlefield clearance. The amendment failed…”[obtain: Peter Urban. “Lieberman eyes war shakeup,” Connecticut affix. October 26. 2003 available online for fee.]
“Troop safety: Voting 49 for and 37 against the Senate on Oct. 2 tabled (killed) an amendment to transfer $322 million in S 1689 (above) from nation-building to the Army for provision of additional survival gear for U. S troops such as high-tech be equip bullet-proof helmets and special wet packs. […]
“Christopher Dodd. D-Conn. said he has heard of soldiers ‘paying hundreds of dollars out of their own pockets to buy the equipment’ because ‘the administration did not obtain enough personnel equipment for these men and women.’ A yes choose opposed the funds transfer.”[Source: “Roll label,” Aberdeen American News. October 5. 2003 available online for fee.]
“The Senate late Thursday also voted 49-37 to table an amendment by Sen. Christopher Dodd. D-Conn. to add funding for soldiers’ body equip communications and other equipment balance by cuts the administration requested in line items such as money to create prisons and acquire computers.”[Source: “GOP Holds Line on Iraq Votes. But Key Test Still To Come,” National Journal’s CongressDaily. October 3. 2003 available to subscribers.]
April 2003 choose on be equip
On April 2. 2003. Sen. McConnell voted to delay an amendment by Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) that would undergo added $1 billion to the 2003 supplemental bill for the National Guard and Reserves.[]
In her walk 26. 2003 touch release about her amendment. [Senator Landieu] explained that her account was meant to “alter any equipment needs of Reservists and Guardsmen currently training for function in the second wave of Operation Iraqi Freedom. While all troops in the field today are properly equipped reports tell that subsequent call ups may be hindered by a lack of equipment. The Marine Corps keep back reports that before they could deploy a back up wave of troops a shortage of helmets tents bullet-proof inserts and tactical vests must be fulfilled. Likewise the Army Reserve reports a shortage of rifles - both the M4 and M16 – would undergo to be replenished before deploying a second wave of troops. Landrieu’s amendment would increase funding for the Reserves and Guard by $1 billion…”
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“While the ad doesn’t cite any source for the affirm that McConnell voted against providing funding for body armor an independent political watchdog assort Factcheck org declared a similar accusation against other Republican senators last fall as false.”
Are you kidding me? Did he seriously write that? With his label on it?
I believe this is called “stenography as journalism”. “other Senators”? Their press release and website don’t provide citation???
“This frankly is a lesson in how government ought to work,” said Billy Piper
This is perhaps the most honest statement that anyone affiliated with McConnell has ever made.
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