My mother remembers when USAF recruiter (or women sent by the recruiters) would visit the NCO wives meetings (speaking of disappearing O Clubs, the whole structure of junior enlisted wives clubs, NCO wives clubs and Officer’s wives clubs have all disappeared with the tides, an entire network of self-help and self-reliance to be replaced by a bureaucratic entitity of one stripe or another) and hand out pamphlets promising health care for life as part of the enticement to wives to get their husbands to re-enlist.

Is there any difference between present day Dems handing out “earmarked” goodies in dribs and drabs to curry favor with the voters and Al Capone sending Christmas turkeys to widows to show what a good guy he was? As if that makes up for all the rest, right?

If you represent veteran’s interests and you don’t play their game, on health care and the rest of it – you and your constituents will be made to pay. You can bet the Blue Dogs are getting carrot and stick treatment as we speak.

You left out “You paracitic leaches.” just prior to “suck it up.”