Does the recent vote on a military spending bill make sense to anyone? Republicans voted no on military spending (at least in the circulation area of my local paper). Most likely this was because the bill included a provision to drop the "don't ask, don't tell" policy and allow gays to serve openly in the armed forces. So I guess for republicans it is more important to keep gays out of the military than to support the troops in the field. "Supporting the troops in the field" is the argument I always got when I expressed opposition to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Democrats on the other hand, who should be more likely to oppose military spending and especially the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, voted for a defense spending bill. Most likely because to them political support from the gay community it more important than getting us out of wars they tell us they disagree with. Do any of these people have serious principles?
