Another Very Angry Republican Voter

[Heather MC]

I found this in the Comment Section of an Article about Veterans not being paid

Kevin Earl Wood · Top Commenter · Property Development and Rental Management at Self
I'm damn well gonna stand up. I'm a registered Republican that is damn well ashamed of the right-wing Republican party. I served my country with honor as an Air Force enlisted man, later as Air Force Officer (ROTC) and later a GS-12 Civil Service employee (electrical engineer) for the Navy. I invested about 15 years of my life, military and civil service, to serve my country and did not get a retirement due to medical disability. My monthly VA disability check, $577, is the difference between survival and catastrophe for me. Now the Republicans want to take that away from me because their "leader", Boehner, refuses to send a clean appropriations bill to the House that would have both Democratic and Republican support during a vote. This is scandalous and should not be forgotten in the next two elections. I am sure that I will change my party to Democrat, like thousands of others, before the next election. I might even vote for Hillary.
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http://www.nbcwashington.com/investigations/VA-Veterans-Benefits-Will-Be-Suspended-in-Prolonged-Shutdown-226821331.html

[flamingdem]

1. Rachel announced on her show that the VA offices will close

and checks for next month may not be sent!

[pacalo]

5. I saw that segment. The disingenuous perception that Republicans have so diligently crafted

for the public -- that they care about the military & veterans -- is finally coming unraveled. At their own hands.

[Berlum]

14. Chickenhawk Republicons love to brag about their so-clled "patriotism' but

they always go AWOL when it comes to supporting our sons and daughters who actually served the US of A.

[davidpdx]

10. I read about that

Also some of the benefits for military personal are being halted. They had a notice on our universities board. I know a few people who depend on that, one of which is a Republican.

[Skittles]

2. yet another one who only gets it when he is affected

[texanwitch]

3. Yep.

If nothing else comes from this may this lesson not be forgot.

A little pain may have to happen for this to be learned.

Of course those of us who did not vote for these fools also have to suffer.

[tblue]

25. That was my first thought

but if that's what it takes to wake people up, I guess it'll have to do. Teabaggers and Koch bro want a scorched earth. That is their goal and no one is exempt except themselves.

[kelliekat44]

32. I'm just glad he get it. nt

[blkmusclmachine]

4. Meh.

Me, me, me, me ....

[Cha]

6. Great OP, Heather MC. this Vet's story reminds me of the 2010 quote

from teabagger, Lynn Westmoreland.



http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023796791

"May even vote for Hillary"! certainly does illustrate this Poor Vet's frustration and disappointment! Bless his heart.

[Beacool]

7. Where's Rafael on this?

Maybe he should have another 21 hr. non-filibuster.

[BlueCaliDem]

27. He's standing by with that ugly smirk of his, counting the hundreds of thousands he'll be getting

from the rightwing "captains of industry" who are behind the Republican Shutdown. Rafael was sent in to ensure it happened. They are out to destroy this country just as Prescott Bush and his fellow "captains of industry" tried to do during FDR's presidency.

[blue14u]

8. Another story of misery caused

by the hateful, Republicans.

God, what are we going to do?

Its so overwhelming... day after day after day.. It's endless..

a family is hurt by our own government who pledged to

defend us.

What kind of people do this to others.

Senseless!!!

[Rebellious Republican]

9. Thanks Heather, there are many like us that drank the koolaide while serving.

However, there are many of us that have awakened to the real world. I will share this video again, I like it.... regardless of anyones feelings toward war.

Non sibi sed patriae is a Latin phrase meaning "Not for self, but for country". The phrase is inscribed over the chapel doors at the United States Naval Academy and some war memorials.

[davidpdx]

11. The problem is on a message board he posted on, not many people are going to see this

I hope he takes the imitative and writes not only his congressional delegation, but also the papers. It would be good to have people like him to be vocal about the shutdown.

[Heather MC]

16. This was on a comment section under an article it also post on to his FB Page

unless he deleted it.

[SheilaT]

12. So what rock has he been living under all these years?

It's not brand new that Republicans do not give a flying f. u. c. k. about ordinary citizens.

I am so freaking tired of these people suddenly waking up and saying, What? You don't really care about us? I didn't know!~

It's a little like the smokers who say, Oh, no! I have lung cancer and I had NO IDEA that the cigarettes could cause this! Really?
Show me again the rock you've been living under.

It's not new. It's been at least since Ronald Reagan that Republicans do not care at all for the general masses. I just wish that those who have been voting Republican all these years could be selectively shut out of Obamacare. But of course, the law doesn't allow that. So these people will take advantage of what Democrats have fought so hard for, and continue to vote for Republicans, never understanding what it's all about.

[Heather MC]

17. As long as Dems were around to protect them they never noticed

besides he was Military, Military usually gets special protection from Political stupidity because we all know how much the Repukes love the Military. I can understand him living with the wool over his eyes until he was not longer under the blanker of protection.

I also know a lot of one issue voters. They see all the evil but they are convienced that only Repugs care about ending Abortion and that's why no matter what they vote Repug.

[Laelth]

21. Hear, hear!

People take good, liberal government for granted. That's the only upside of the shutdown, imo. People need to be reminded, at a time like this, that they really do like the government.

-Laelth

[BlueCaliDem]

28. 100% in agreement, Laelth. eom

[SheilaT]

31. Yes. And with all due respect to all those who have served in any branch of our military,

it makes me more than crazy that so many ex-military side with Republicans. Even with reasonably generous benefits if you were a commissioned officer and served at least twenty years, and even though you may well have gotten a good job in civilian life that paid as well or better than your last rank (and again I'm talking about commissioned officers who usually make it to at least Lt. Colonel status in those twenty years), your well into the upper reaches of the middle class, but you're still a very long way from the top 1%. Heck, I bet if I could actually run the numbers, those folks are at best in the top 10%. Which is quite nice, but still.

[Roland99]

13. One by one...as each is affected individually...

they slowly start to realize the fraud that's been inflicted upon them.

[B Calm]

15. It's happening, we are witnessing the end of the republican party!

[Fumesucker]

19. And the end of anything remotely resembling a liberal/progressive Democratic party

For the life of me I can't understand how people can think floods of former Republicans joining the Democrats is going to move the party in a more liberal and progressive direction.

[B Calm]

20. If we're lucky maybe they'll split up into the Constitution Party,

Tea Party, Libertarian Party, and is the John Birch Society still around?

[CrispyQ]

24. This. ^^^

I've predicted this for a few years. The teabaggers will split the repub party in two & the sane repubs will join the dem party, taking us even further to the right. I know many DUers think we should take back our party, but I believe we liberals are going to have to form our own party, if we want a voice. I just don't see the democratic party going back to the left.

[BlueCaliDem]

29. Floods of ex-Republican VOTERS is what we need to defeat the gerrymandered Teapublican

districts, but I seriously doubt we'll change our Democratic congresscritters. They'll remain Democrats, even if they're barely so. But even BlueDogs vote 70% of the time with Democrats as opposed to 0% by Teapublicans, so that's an improvement.

The goal here is to get majorities in both chambers of Congress, and to hold the WH. If enough angry Republican voters vote Democratic (many even voted for Senator Obama in 2008), we can get progressive legislation through - just as we've done with the PPACA. I know a LOT of Liberals don't like the PPACA, and I know we could've done much better, but all good things come to those who are willing to wait. However, no one can dispute the PPACA is a progressive piece of legislation that has plenty of room for improvement.

[Fumesucker]

18. Oh Jeebus, straight from Republican to Hillary voter

Not sure whether to , or

[Katashi_itto]

22. Fuck him. He only gets it now that he's affected.

I'm hoping this thing goes on for months. The longer it does the more hardship, and maybe people wake up to the kind of threat the Republican party poses.

[carolinayellowdog]

34. wishing for massive prolonged suffering for the American people

is about as nasty a sentiment as I've ever seen expressed here, quite Boehneresque. PLONK.

[Katashi_itto]

35. We are fighting a terrorist Organization. A quick resolution means business as usual.

This way we get it over and done with. People will see how much the govt means in their lives.

[CrispyQ]

23. I hope this man & others like him remember this in '14 & '16.

He says he will.

I hope he does.

[redstatebluegirl]

26. My crazy republican neighbor caught me this morning

and wanted to tell me he would not vote republican again, that he was furious that his party was being taken over by "uneducated nutjobs" his words, not mine.

This is the same guy who came across the street when we had 4 democratic signs in our yard the last election and told us we were stuipd "librals" and were no doubt going to hell.

Now, what he is finding out is, the government doesn't just fund "black welfare mothers who have gucci purses" but the military, retirees, ag funding (his dad is a rancher nearby).

He seems to have forgotten we are all godless anti American heathens! There may be hope yet. I always said Mike would vote for a Democrat when hell froze over.

[SheilaT]

33. As I've said before, I do wish there were some way to selectively make sure

that only Republicans were hit by this whole bullshit of the shutdown. And the sequester. And the possible coming default.

Since that's not possible, I do sort of hope this goes on long enough to really hurt a lot of people. Except that the ones who will be most hurt will be the most innocent of all, such as children, vets who need medical care, maybe even senior citizens who won't get their meager social security check that just barely keeps them from starving in the street.

I am in the fortunate position that this whole thing isn't going to touch me very much, and I need to keep on reminding myself that if I'd only taken a different job a few years ago I might be one who is directly affected.

[displacedtexan]

36. Your neighbor is a moron. Don't loan him anything or

Let him pick up your mail when you're out of town. He's not smart enough to water the lawn.

[redstatebluegirl]

37. We knew that!

His wife told me this evening he was headed to his "promise keepers" meeting. Nutcase for sure.

[displacedtexan]

38. BWAAAAAAHAAAAAHAAA! Promise keepers?

I've long suspected that they're all pervert-wanabes.

[redstatebluegirl]

39. They want their wives to be submissive and their kids to obey.

His wife told me that, she said that is what the bible teaches.

[City Lights]

30. I hope this spreads like wildfire.

:fingerscrossed: