(December 7, 2016 at 11:19 pm)Aegon Wrote:(December 7, 2016 at 7:01 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: Exactly. How can we know the reasons? I assume Republicans ideologically disagree with Obama and that was their motive. I could be wrong but to ascribe positive motives to your side and negative to the other seems politically naive.
When a party claims to support our veterans and improve their treatment by the government, yet votes against a Dem-sponsored bill that would have provided jobs for 20,000 vets purely because it would have been seen as a victory of the Democrats. Mitch even admitted back in 2010 that "the single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president." That's how you know.
The vet bill argument is complete nonsense, it was purely a political move timed just before the 2012 elections knowing they didn't have support for passage. Another reason this charge is ridiculous is that the Congress passed and Obama signed the Vow to Hire Heroes bill the year before. It also ignores the half dozen or so federally sponsored vet job programs already in existence.
