flashes of awesomeness

stfuteabaggers:

jonathan-cunningham:

 Revamping US Military and Foreign Policy

• No permanent military bases in Afghanistan.
• Report on long-term costs of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.
• National Military Strategic Plan to Counter Iran.

Anti-Corruption

• Standards and certification for private security contractors.
• Inclusion of bribery in disclosure requirements of the Federal awardee performance and integrity information system.

Environmental Progress

• Report identifying hybrid or electric propulsion systems and other fuel-saving technologies for incorporation into tactical motor vehicles.

Service Member Welfare

• Information sharing relating to investigation of exposure to drinking water contamination at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
• Adoption of military working dogs by family members of deceased or seriously wounded members of the Armed Forces who were handlers of the dogs.
• Recognition of role of female members of the Armed Forces and Department of Defense review of military occupational specialties available to female members.
• Protection of child custody arrangements for parents who are members of the Armed Forces deployed in support of a contingency operation.
• Improvements to Department of Defense domestic violence programs.
• Department of Defense recognition of spouses of members of the Armed Forces.
• Department of Defense recognition of children of members of the Armed Forces.
• Enhancements to the Troops-to-Teachers Program.
• Fiscal year 2011 increase in military basic pay.
• Improving aural protection for members of the Armed Forces.
• Comprehensive policy on neurocognitive assessment by the military health care system.
• Report on feasibility of study on breast cancer among female members of the Armed Forces.
• Pilot program on payment for treatment of members of the Armed Forces and veterans for traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder.
• Assessment of post-traumatic stress disorder by military occupation.
• Post-traumatic stress disorder counseling for civilian victims of the Fort Hood shooting and other similar incidents.

Disaster Response

• Authority to make excess nonlethal supplies available for domestic emergency assistance.

Here are a list of things that were included in the bill that were added to attempt to get some Republican support:

• Prohibition on the use of funds for the transfer or release of individuals detained at United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
• Prohibition on the use of funds to modify or construct facilities in the United States to house detainees transferred from United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
• Prohibition on use of funds to give Miranda warnings to Al Qaeda terrorists.

• Sense of Congress regarding recreational hunting and fishing on military installations.

• Sense of Congress encouraging the President to order the United States flag to be flown over United States military and civilian outposts in Haiti during earthquake relief efforts.

The GOP is throwing a fit and the American people are the worse because of it.  I really hope this catches up with them in November, but I doubt it will.

i’ve heard a lot of people complaining about ‘those sneaky dems’ trying to put terrible things that will end america into this bill. i know what it is. it’s the dog thing, isn’t it? we don’t want wounded soldiers to have a dog? what would you prefer, republicans? 

also, i heard evilteabagger talking about abortions for female soldiers, but i have yet to actually see this in any of the reports about this bill, only on conspiracy theory right wing blogs. interesting.