There’s no such thing as a drama-free December in D.C. — even without a government shutdown on the holiday horizon. Before Congress calls it quits on 2023, there are plenty of things for the parties to squabble over, including the mammoth National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). In a city where consensus is rarer than a Santa sighting, the troop bill is probably the only area of consistent compromise. In fact, the military’s budget passes so reliably that it hasn’t missed a year since West Side Story was in theaters and gas cost $.27 a gallon. But that six-decade streak is on the line right now, and there’s no one to blame but radical Democrats.
As most people in D.C. have learned, getting the military funded is usually a battle in itself. “I’m optimistic we will find a reasonable compromise that both chambers can support,” House Armed Services Chair Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) told reporters this week. It was a sanguine view for a debate mired in everything from abortion politics to cryptocurrency fights.
As onlookers know, the House and Senate each passed versions of the NDAA earlier in the year — the trouble now is finding language that the two chambers, both led by different parties, will support. For the last several weeks, one of the most significant snags centers around a 2022 decision by President Joe Biden to put taxpayers on the hook for military abortions, a policy that Republicans (rightly) fume is illegal without Congress’s approval. It’s that same White House decision that sparked Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville’s (R) move to put a hold on high-ranking military promotions. He’d hoped his stand, now nine months strong, would force Democrats to the negotiating table.
Instead, the White House has preferred to battle it out in the press, absurdly blaming Tuberville for everything from the military’s recruitment woes to readiness issues. Realizing the Left has no interest in actually solving the problem, conservatives are turning to the NDAA in the hopes that they can not only break the logjam on military promotions but also stop the Biden administration from crossing a bright red statutory line.
Fortunately, there’s language in the House bill that rolls back Biden’s taxpayer-funded abortion con. But as both sides of the Capitol hammer out the final text, the big question is whether Republicans will have the stomach to hold the line on what Family Research Council President Tony Perkins calls “a very, very significant issue….”
From the Washington Stand
Joe Biden is as faithless a fake Catholic as they come.
Don’t let him hear you say that, or else he’ll shove his rosary beads down your throat.
He needs to hear this from those high up in the Church’s hierarchy, and the higher up the better. Those in high places have difficulty accepting correction from those in lower places, and Biden may well fancy himself as perhaps the most important man in the world today. Someone of equal or greater importance has to try to make an impression on his soul. If this has been tried without effect, the effort nevertheless should continue.
Both of my parents served in WWII. My mother was a State-side Wave. She, of course, was enlisted. The morals then – both publicly and especially in the military – were quite different. Not only did enlisted and officers NOT fraternize, but IF someone had gotten pregnant then, they would have gotten a dishonoerable discharge. It was an absolute soial scandal for an unwed woman to get pregnant. Heck, when I was in high school (graduated in ’67), it was a scandal… and even then (back in the dinosaur days of my youth), the girl would disappear to “visit” relatives or attend an out-of-state school. Of course, the child was then given up for adoption or adopted by relatives, and the young girl would then become an “auntie.”
Oh, how I long for the old days. And no, they weren’t perfect, but they were certainly better than this sexual free-for-all, where women have become sexual objects to be used and discarded… and some Pope, as I recall, predicted this (hmmm… Humanae Vitae anyone???).
RINOs = Democrats. They cave every time.
Abortion cons the life of the unborn.
The Senate has passed several bills to approve the promotion of hundreds of military waiting for confirmation. Families of thousands of military didn’t know when they could move, where to enroll their kids for school, where to find apartments, where spouses could get jobs. This is a major crisis for the military. Their leadership positions are vacant, nobody in command, and we are at the threshold of potential wars across the world. Not likely to happen, but still!
The Senator should be ashamed. His position has nothing to do with abortion, it is about power and he is enjoying his fifteen minutes of fame. He is a disgrace to the country. There are better ways to fight abortion than to hold up military promotions.
“The Senator should be ashamed”….compared to those who advocate trading the lives of unborn children for promotions?
What’s so unusual about punishing those without a voice that can’t be heard? It happens all the time, especially in DC. There is nothing wrong with someone taking a job that has to be filled. It happens all the time too. A person does not have to have one star to assume the duties of a BGen and so on. Once approved for promotion, the person can take a job at the higher rank and all the troops will know it and comply with orders he/she gives them. The paperwork will catch up in time, when this nonsense has done it’s job. Nuff said, now get to work!
The Senator relented yesterday and most of the positions were approved by the Senate within hours. He is still holding up four-star generals, like the one in charge of cyber security but it doesn’t matter much, because our cyber war with China, Russia, and Iran isn’t all that important is it.