Turns out it’s the Democrats’ fault
Aren’t Republicans supposed to love the military? The Post reports:
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith (D-Wash.) said that Trump’s plan to divert military construction funding to border barriers was “utterly disrespectful” to members of the military.
“This appalling decision by the Trump administration is an egregious example of the President putting his political agenda ahead of the interest of the United States,” Smith said in a statement.
Trump intends to tap $3.6 billion in military construction funds by declaring a national emergency.
What is his political agenda here exactly?
It seems to be to defend and consolidate and underline his image, his “identity,” as a ferocious racist xenophobe. It appears to be to leave no stone unturned in his effort to display his credentials as a hate-mongering white supremacist shit.
Which is sort of funny, in a sour way, because hey, dude, we believe you, you don’t need to do all this to convince us.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Trump’s hand was forced on declaring a national emergency by congressional Democrats.
“President Trump’s decision to announce emergency action is the predictable and understandable consequence of Democrats’ decision to put partisan obstruction ahead of the national interest,” McConnell said in a statement.
Senator would you please go stick your head in a bucket of fresh cement? At once?
Welp my prognostication about the reds never lining up behind stupid wall spending was dead wrong…
We really are living with a post-policy Republican party…
Yes, but they love their positions of power and the opportunities to enhance their own wealth a lot more, especially when they can stick it to the libruls ‘n’ furriners at the same time, so they’re not going to risk having the wrath of Trump knock them from the gravy train.
As my late mother used to say about people who do that, ‘He’d cut off his nose just to spite his face’.
Republicans don’t love the actual military. They love the pomp, the opportunity to make a show of patriotic display, the image of the United States as a mighty and righteous force that can bend the world to its will. They like to be seen praising the military and holding service members up as examples of strong people who suffer greatly for “the country” (so you whining liberals have no basis for complaint, you know). Doing things that improve the lives of service members, or that keep them out of harm’s way without cause, not so interesting.
Yep. Getting asbestos out of military housing? Nah, that’s not sexy enough – divert it to the border “emergency.”