You do not veto vitally-needed funding for our military over a few bucks for Planned Parenthood. That is head-in-the-sand insane.
This Air Force veteran would like to know whether that
really justifies, among other things . . .
* $1 million for the Cultural Antiquities Task Force
* $6.25 million for the Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation
* $20 million for Countering Foreign State Propaganda
* $12 million for Countering State Disinformation and Pressure
* $1.371 billion for Contributions to International Organizations
* $51 million to promote International Family Planning and Reproductive Health
* $7 million promoting International Conservation
* $10 million for UN Environmental Programs
* $1 million for the World Meteorological Organization
* $218 million for Promoting Democracy Development in Europe
* $25 million for International Religious Freedom
* $10 million for disadvantaged Egyptian Students
* $12 million for Scholarships for Lebanon
* $20 million for Middle East Partnership Initiative Scholarship Program
* $12 million in military funding for Vietnam
* $3.5 million in nutrition assistance to Laos
* $15 million in Developmental assistance to China
* $10 million for Women LEOs in Afghanistan
* $58 million for the U.S. Post Office---
if it promises not to close down small, underutilized, money-losing post offices. (Like
that's going to happen.)
* $9 billion for Govt Services Admin that oversees federal properties. (News flash: The feds spend about $1.7 billion a year to keep up---wait for it!---770,000
empty buildings
while still buying more properties.)
* $30 billion for the Energy Department. (Never mind that nuclear waste could be done reasonably by the Defense Department without compromising their
other investment needs.)
* $5 million for Vietnam Education Foundation Grants
* $ 2.579 million for Commission on Security and Co-operation in Europe
* $15 million to USAID for promoting international higher education between universities
* $2.696 billion for International Disaster Assistance
* $6 billion for the National Science Foundation. (Those fine folks who told you, among other things, that it was absolutely imperative that we learn whether
Japanese quail were more promiscuous sexually when wired up the kazoo on cocaine---$350,000 worth of imperative.)
(Special thanks to Sen. Rand Paul [R-Kentucky] for tweeting those gory details. He said at one point he'd sent out for pizza to keep him going while he read
the bill and tweeted the, ahem, highlights, or should that be lowlights. Someone should have sent him a goddam
chateau briand for his trouble.)
Those numbers added up
pass Planned Parenthood's approximately $500 million.
I'm all in
favour of
truly vital military spending. But this bill up and down was and is the kind of thing that we used to condemn Democratic
Congresses for writing and Democratic presidents for calling for and signing. This bill was so bad that forty percent of
Democrats as well as forty
percent of Republicans on Crapola Hill voted against it. Remind me
again why it was
that imperative to keep Hilarious Rodent Clinton---who
could have been beaten in 2017 even by someone running on a dry cleaning ticket, she was so short-sighted and incompetent a campaigner, but
who would have just
loved signing this piece of garbage or a reasonable facsimile thereof---from planting her ample
derriere in the White
House?
This is where I stood during the general campaign in 2016, by the way:
And I've seen no reason whatsoever to apologise for or regret having voted "None of These Candidates" for the White House.
