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In reply to the discussion: Lowe's Workers stay late to Fix legless Vet's Busted Wheelchair (After VA Wouldn't) [View all]merrily
(45,251 posts)Still do, apparently.
Once someone got hurt or killed, though, and once the troops came home, all they had were flag pins, slogans, jingoism and voting "no."
When Imus was still on MSNBC--you know, before MSNBC finally had to start paying attention to the racism on his show--Imus was shouting at Schumer about the scandalous conditions at Walter Reed. Schumer tried, (quietly, for some odd reason) to point out that he and other Democrats had voted for the money to repair Walter Reed, but the Republican majority had voted against it. Imus continued pretending that Schumer should have seen that the hospital got repaired. And, for some reason, Schumer just shrugged and let it go.
I guess Schumer thought whatever he was on Imus to talk about was too important to risk angering Imus? Funny though, I don't remember what that topic was.