When President Joe Biden got around to giving his State of the Union address this March, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, seated behind him, stood up and started doing the cha-cha when he spoke about veterans who were exposed to toxic burn pits overseas. Of course, Biden suggested that his son Beau was one of the victims of burn pits.
Our troops in Iraq in Afghanistan faced many dangers.
One was stationed at bases and breathing in toxic smoke from “burn pits” that incinerated wastes of war — medical and hazard material, jet fuel, and more.
When they came home, many of the world’s fittest and best-trained warriors were never the same.
Headaches. Numbness. Dizziness,
A cancer that would put them in a flag-draped coffin.
I know.
One of those soldiers was my son Major Beau Biden.
There’s some “damning” video going around from Sawyer Hackett — the same guy who started the Border Patrol whipping story — of Sen. Ted Cruz giving fist bumps after the PACT Act was voted down.
Here’s @tedcruz fist-bumping fellow Republicans after blocking a bill to help veterans exposed to toxic burn pits. pic.twitter.com/sZdDljrJV7
— Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) July 29, 2022
Jon Stewart (clown nose off) has made these veterans a personal cause of his and used his show to call out Cruz for lying:
Jon Stewart just destroyed Ted Cruz and the Republicans’ lies about why they voted against giving toxin-exposed veterans healthcare and you have to watch pic.twitter.com/UrQOKGHKkU
— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) July 29, 2022
Cruz was good enough to respond to Stewart’s charges later that night:
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.@jonstewart you're wrong here. The bill gives a $400B blank check—separate from vets care—for unrelated pork that will supercharge inflation. I support the PACT Act & the $679.4B it would dedicate to vets. It’s ppl trying to use PACT to shovel more pork who are exploiting vets. pic.twitter.com/xdpRTSztmB
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) July 30, 2022
A bill that had a ton of pork for everything BUT vets. You guys aren't fooling anyone. Hush. https://t.co/mCa53Fzy8F
— Jeff Ellington 🪕 (@Jeff__Ellington) July 30, 2022
The bill contained a budgeting gimmick that allowed for an additional $400B in spending unrelated to veterans' care. A fix was proposed but rejected. https://t.co/GUWxVKhOi1
— Boo (@IzaBooboo) July 29, 2022
They blocked $400 billion in spending not related to vets.
Good for them.— End of Quote. Repeat the Line. (@Harry_The_Tech) July 30, 2022
This bill had a lot of pork and very little to help veterans. Democrats should be ashamed.
— e-beth (@ebeth360) July 30, 2022
This vote had nothing to do with veterans. This vote had to do with the unrelated spending gimmick that was slipped in and could have been removed right away and the bill would have passed immediately with 80+ votes in favor.https://t.co/ovjvQjLsnz
— Grandpa Mohawks Son (@MRKokoski) July 30, 2022
Thread: This is why I hate politics these days.
Toomey supports the underlying bill. As do most R Senators. There was a line in the bill that changes discretionary spending to mandatory spending so it would not need to be reauthorized and could be spent for other purposes. https://t.co/mKr78IzPzq
— AG (@AGHamilton29) July 29, 2022
Schumer demanded a vote for cloture despite R's pointing this out. This could be fixed in 10 minutes. And that's likely exactly what will happen now. The day or two delay could save a lot of money in unrelated spending.
So why did Schumer hold the vote instead of fixing it?
— AG (@AGHamilton29) July 29, 2022
Because he knew news outlets would then report that Republicans blocked a bill to help Veterans despite the objection having nothing to do with the money allocated to help veterans. pic.twitter.com/Qp0wpFBL5l
— AG (@AGHamilton29) July 29, 2022
And he also then knew that clowns like @jonstewart, who pretend to care about this issue but not enough to find out what needs to be fixed to pass the bill, would go out and immediately smear those trying to do the right thing.
And that would be the narrative everyone ran with.
— AG (@AGHamilton29) July 29, 2022
So now while Toomey works to fix and pass the bill, Jon Stewart's dumb rant where he pretends Toomey and others were trying to screw veterans by asking for a quick and necessary fix went viral. It did nothing to help Veterans, but at least Chuck Schumer got what he wanted.
— AG (@AGHamilton29) July 29, 2022
Yep, he got all of the headlines about Republicans voting against veterans’ health care.
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Update:
Here’s “The Burn Pits” author Joseph Hickman:
I literally wrote the book on the burn pits. Jack is right, everyone would have voted for it, if the Dems didn’t add 400 billion dollars in additional spending to the bill that has nothing to do with the burn pits. It was a political move in an election year.
— Joseph Hickman (@JosephHickman0) July 30, 2022
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Update:
Here’s Sen. Pat Toomey:
Apparently some of our Democratic colleagues care more about their $400 B future spending spree on matters completely unrelated to veterans—facilitated by what they snuck into the veterans burn pit legislation—than the programs and funding for veterans exposed to toxic chemicals.
— Senator Pat Toomey (@SenToomey) July 30, 2022
The PACT Act could have passed weeks ago if Democrats had dropped the spending boondoggle that is completely unrelated to veterans.
— Senator Pat Toomey (@SenToomey) July 30, 2022
Since they can’t bring themselves to abandon yet another needless, inflationary spending spree, here’s an idea: let the Senate vote on it.
— Senator Pat Toomey (@SenToomey) July 30, 2022
In June, Schumer promised amendment votes before reneging on that promise. Senator Tester is working in good faith to get this resolved. Let’s vote this week and find out where the majority of the Senate stands.
— Senator Pat Toomey (@SenToomey) July 30, 2022
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Jake Tapper's pearl-clutching over Lauren Boebert 'heckling' Joe Biden is not only irrational, but it's built on a bald-faced lie https://t.co/H2DPyngJ5w
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) March 2, 2022
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