Congress is an embarassment

Shame on all of them

As if Nancy Sinatra didn't spend months and months in Vietnam. For shame Veterans.

I'm not quick to defend Congress for its relative inaction, but I don't see a connection between the bills Congress considered this week and one this special interest group would like considered.

Should Congress shut down and take no action whatsoever until it appeases this group. If so, who determines which special interest groups are given such clout? Should we go in alphabetical order? If so, Vets for Freedom probably won't be happy for a long, long time.

To diminish the accomplishments of the Northern Kentucky Division II national champion basketball team or the others considered this week does little to advance this group's agenda and, in fact, detracts from it. The group comes off looking unsympathetic, condescending and mean. Who knows - maybe they are.

"Vets for Freedom, a group that espouses nonpartisanship, is bent out of shape...."

Not very subtle. More Big Media bias.

-Wm Tate
http://www.atimelikethis.us/

But nooooo !

They need to respecter the crooner of the planet Sinatra.

Peace for her soul !

http://allainjulesblog.blogspot.com/

it would be nice if congress was capable of passing anything of substance, but instead we get this kind of drivel, no attempt to fix social security or the looming bankruptcy of america as the boomers retire to the government tit, hell, even impeachment hearings would be more productive

a bag of diapers would be more effective than the current democrat congress

a bag of diapers would me more intelligent, more responsive, more competent, and leave the country in less ruin and waste

Who cares! If only a quarter of American citizens would pay attention to what their elected congressional waste-mongers do each day, perhaps the Congress would clean it's act up. There are just too many spoiled rotten, American-idol fans, Oprah fans walking around content with their lives cause nothing in DC matters to them in reality! Another words, most people don't care whats happening unless it effects them directly. This is the spoiled rotten, clueless conditioning many have grown up as... It use to be said years ago by some intelligent folks, if we go to war, that would wake up the country. BLAH! They are so tired of hearing CNN, FOX and the rest reporting war and election crap they can't turn on the TV anymore. Of course, Hollywood loves this because this means more viewers for their boring junk! Welcome to the USA in the year 2008! And I see it getting worse, not better.

Frank Sinatra and John Wayne were the two most hated individuals by American GIs in WWII, particularly combat veterans. Sinatra and Wayne were both considered to be blatant draft-dodgers. It was so bad that Sinatra could not even make a USO tour without being insulted. After the fall of Rome, Sinatra was scheduled to entertain the troops. They booed him off the stage. When Wayne went to the amputee ward at the Naval Hospital in San Diego to cheer up the Marines there, he was greeted with catcalls and boos. Both actors were great at making war movies in the safe confines of Hollywood, however

Veterans have never been forgotton here in USAmerica. Maybe in your America they have but not in mine.
That Frank Sinatra Day was voted on by the House of Reps doesn't take anything away from remembering our fallen Americans on Memorial Day nor do we forget their service on Veterans Day.
My grandfather was Maj. Louis V. Consiglio Sr.(US Army Retired) He passed away in March of 1963. I remember when I was a litte boy having breakfasts with him at the family home in Suffern NY. I would immagine that up in the attic there were all kinds of maps from Europe and Asia since he served in WWI WWII and in Korea. In fact he taught me not only how to tie a necktie but how to fold the American flag.(not to make a joke he also taught me how to make military corners) although my father who was only Pfc taught me how to bounce a quarter off of them to make sure the bunk was made up properly among many other things of course but still to this day because of my father Vic I still remember going to the Major's home for Memorial Day Picnics years after the Maj died.
We called my grandfather Poppy. And in the backyard was a sole poppy flower. It bloomed every Memorial Day. Next to it was a rose bush. It bloomed every June 1. Religiously. They also had a peartree. Years later I learned that the name Birnbaum, my mother Dorothy's maiden name means peartree in German.
Still the Holiday along with Independence Day always meant picnics parades and fireworks at the local carnival here in NYMetroCity.
Still everyone remembers vets and fallen soldiers on if not two days a year then on every day of the year if perhaps you belong to a vet or a fallen man or women of honor.
So continue to remember and if you celebrate Vets and Soldiers I hope you will put some Frank Sinatra music on the CD player. He's as Red White and Blue as any of us.

Sinerely

dePaul Consigio

J Hungerfor Newby (I love the name) put it ight out there in front but let us not forget the rest of the hollywood crew whose greatest contribution to the war effort was making totally useless instructional films for the people who were actually engaging the enemy in combat. Stuff like how to avoid contracting gonhorrea and other useful information. One of them went on to become a mindless president, yeah, I'm talking about Ronnie Reagan. There were a whole slew of these draft-dodging cretins. Robert Taylor springs to mind, a man who went on to become a warrior in Joe McCarthy's anti-semite witch-hunt. But at the same time we must not forget Glenn Miller who lost his life in that conflict or Lee Marvin who spent a lot of time dodging bullets on Pacific islands.

As an ex post facto comment and correction to my post; since electonics, when the US government and family and freinds have my name and number on a cigarette doing a circle on me like the Decemberist sing about my name ie dePaul Consiglio was electronically passed through incorrectly. What's in a name?
Ask.

Sincerely

dePaul Consiglio

Here is something else Congress should think about: restart the military draft that would include the rich, poor, in-between and from every race. With this action, there would be a renewed and tremendous interest in our military activity around the world. No longer would you have to search your local newspaper for war news and related articles. No longer would a certain group bear most of the burden with repeated war zone tours and unexpected extensions. If these wars can be compared to WWII, like a former senator from Pennsylvania liked to profess, then let's get going and do it right with a draft to staff it, new taxes to pay for it and fuel/material rationing to keep it going. In other words, let's have the sacrifices felt by a larger part of our citizenry. With a draft, young men and women would have a lot more than a job, classes or a t-time to worry about!

Congress will go on vacation, AGAIN, without passing funding for our troops in the field. They won't fund them and they won't defund them. They just won't do anything.

I vote no confidence in Congress.

@ Darmar40

"Another words"? WHAT? Don't you mean "in other words"? Yu hix nead tu lurn tu spel. What are you, "Hooked On Phonics"?

Having served on a couple of 12 person juries, governing by committee, whether 12 or the whole (535), has got to be the most difficult.

I like Sinatra and Arnold Palmer, but why should they get Congressional recognition? My grandfather has been in the shoe business for 40 years. How about a House Resolution for a man taking care of people feet for 40 years. Luv U Granpa