Harry Reid refuses to fund veteran programs

  Yesterday the Democrats and the mainstream media tried to use sick children as political pawns by claiming that because Republicans refused to fund the government children with cancer were not able to get their treatments. 

  But when Republicans passed a resolution to fund the NIH Harry Reid refused to do so. When asked by a reporter why he wouldn’t vote to help even one child with cancer he responded by saying “why would we want to do that?”  He put politics ahead of the children which is precisely what he is claiming the Republicans are doing.

  He also attacked the House Republicans for trying to fund the more critical parts of the Federal government one piece of legislation at a time by asking “what gives them the right” to do this? Mr. Reid apparently does not know that the Constitution is what gives the House of Representatives the power to do what they are attempting to do. Or, he does know and he either does not care or he thinks most people do not know this.

  We move on:

  Today the House voted to fund the national parks, paying reservists, and funding veteran services but again Senate Democrats–the new party of no–blocked all these measures.

  Democrats like to claim they are for the children, and they like to claim they support the military but when they had the chance to support both they decided to play politics because they feel in the end they will gain for it. They need the American people to feel a little pain if they want to get their way, and they are doing everything in their power to make this shutdown as painful as possible.