That pisshead doesn't even have his priorities right. Rangel is more interested in class warfare here than fighting jihadists overseas.

Well, I guess we could look forward to this anyway when the liberals' economic policies ultimately fail....

The specter of unemployment is haunting every politician, economist, industrialist, and labor leader. Mr. Dewey said that he saw the solution in heroic production of gadgets, but as to the immediate means, was silent. Mr. Roosevelt announced that everything was planned and that no one need worry, but his details were nebulous. Mr. Truman thinks that there is magic in the phrase "full employment," but one suspects that his disappointment at Congressional refusal to put his whole program to the test is not unmixed with relief........One of the most obvious palliatives for unemployment is to push a large number of young men into an expanded CCC or an expanded army on a subsistence basis and so make room for others in regular employment - one of the obvious palliatives and one of the worst. -Russell Kirk on the Draft

Annika,

I think this is a unilateral piece of policy initiative on the part of Rangle to, as Raygun has pointed out, increase our awarness of the cost of the criminal action in Iraq and to also highlight who's sons and daughters are fighting it. Not the Bush twins nor two to three hundred children and grand children of our legislators.

Strawman,

I'm sick your ridiculouls need to point out the Bush's daughters are not in the military. It's not relevenat. It's stupid. You see, Einstein, our military is voluntary. Look up the word. Learn it. Understand it. Use it in a sentence. And there are members of the US Congress with sons and daughters in the military. You couldn't even get that right.

Rangle is the worst sort of propagandist. And he is a racist pig. He'd like us all to believe that every soilder is a "person of color" despite the fact that the US military is perhaps the most integrated institution in America.

Rangel represents a side of the Democratic Party which is sees the main event as conflict between groups within American society. Such people do not believe in the reality of external threats; nor are they interested in Americans working together to solve real problems. It's always about creating fault lines between groups of Americans and then doing everything possible to deepen and widen these fault lines.

Blu-

Though you are addressing a provocateur, I am in complete agreement at the hypocrisy of the "Bush daughters not in the military" talk.

Bush' daughters are not running for office, and the U.S. is not a Kingdom. It's ludicruos to insinuate that Bush' daughters should join the military as some type of symbolism.

Further, his daughters, as all military persons, are of age to make their own decisions. To imply their parents should control their decisions is to infantilize the Bush daughters, as well as all military persons. It is to paint them as victims, instead of cognizant adults.

Bush himself joined the military, which is more than 99% of such critics did.

The weakness and stupidity of this attack offends me. My 8 year old nephew could do better. Either attack Bush more effectively, or step away from the keyboard.

Well Blu,

You too do seem to be rising to the bait my big mouthed friend. I don't give a fuck if the bush girls don fatigues or not. The hypocracy of all those who scream about this clash of cultures and the need to kill them in Iraq or you'll be killed by them over here is so transparent and utterly rediculas at this point that is bears no further attack. Yes a battle is formulating between fundo-islam and the west and a strategy is necessary but the invasion and effective destablization of Iraq is not a part of the solution; it in fact exacerbates the problem and will continue to do so for at least the next 5-7 years while putting the US in serious financial trouble.

Bush slipped into the line waiting toget into the guard like many young men who did not want to fight in Vietnam. He did not join the armed forces because he believed in the mission. He one step up the ladder from that scum VP who did nothing. I am glad, of course, that they sisn't them participated in the war and that neithWell Blu,

You too do seem to be rising to the bait. I don't give a fuck if the bush girls don fatigues or not. The hypocracy of all those who scream about this clash of cultures and the need to kill them in Iraq or you'll be killed by them over here is so transparent and utterly rediculas at this point that is bears no further attack. Yes a battle is formulating between fundo-islam and the west and a strategy is necessary but the invasion and effective destablization of Iraq is not a part of the solution; it in fact exacerbates the problem and will continue to do so for at least the next 5-7 years while putting the US in serious financial trouble.

Bush slipped into the line waiting toget into the guard like many young men who did not want to fight in Vietnam. He did not join the armed forces because he believed in the mission. He one step up the ladder from that scum VP who did nothing. I am glad, of course, that they sisn't them participated in the war and that neither killed Vietnamese but loath their duplicity.er killed Vietnamese but loath their duplicity.

The former commander of the Texas Air National Guard says it is a lie to say Bush used influence to "slip into the line" for the Air National Guard fighter pilot program. Several positions were open, yet went unfilled during that time. There was dearth of candidates, partly due to the high standards in place for admitting candidates into that dangerous and demanding program.