Republican-led Senate committee approves
Elizabeth Warren’s amendment to rename
military bases
BizPac Review,
by
Robert Jonathan
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
6/11/2020 11:56:03 PM
Courting a potential presidential veto, the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee voted on Wednesday to require the Pentagon to change the names of any military base named after a Confederate general.Lawmakers approved the amendment, introduced by failed 2020 Democrat presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, to the National Defense Authorization Act by voice vote during a closed-door meeting.The panel apparently has yet to make an official statement, however, although Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) announced that he voted against it. “I opposed this amendment, spoke against it, and voted no in the committee. Congress should not be mandating renaming of our bases and military installations,” he tweeted.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 6/12/2020 12:00:36 AM (No. 441771)
Damned cowards.
Worthless, useless cowards.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Ketchuplover 6/12/2020 12:08:29 AM (No. 441774)
Republicans continue to disappoint.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
bighambone 6/12/2020 12:09:33 AM (No. 441775)
The establishment Republicans are pretty wimpy, and the Democrats know that the Republicans will usually run and hide under their mattresses anytime an issue involving race comes up, scared to death that the Democrats will play the race card against them.
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The whole world has gone mad. We have no leadership other than the President and they fight him at every turn. So depressing.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
SALady 6/12/2020 12:15:54 AM (No. 441781)
Totally spineless, useless, cajones-less, losers!!!!
President Trump will veto this, and I can only hope that there are not so many useless Republi-can'ts that they would dare over-ride it -- though my level of faith in the Republi-can'ts is pretty much non-existent!!!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 6/12/2020 12:16:22 AM (No. 441782)
NOOO!!!!!!!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
amylu 6/12/2020 12:26:16 AM (No. 441788)
Josh Hawley is a first term Senator who's articulate and on Fox News a lot. He looks and sounds like he might be an up-and-comer. Lord knows it's what we need.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
bobn.t 6/12/2020 12:27:40 AM (No. 441790)
Nuts
Proof that liberalism is a mental illness
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
snakeoil 6/12/2020 12:34:55 AM (No. 441796)
One would think that Princess Screeching Squaw would be more concerned with all the military hardware named for Native Indigenous American Injuns. Perhaps we should honour two of the more woke commanders Husband Kimmel and Walter Short by naming naval and army bases for them. Let's rename New York and New Jersey because there's nothing new about them. Which state will get Fort Custer? Cape Canaveral was renamed Cape Kennedy and then back to Cape Canaveral. So keep those old maps and signs.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
MOAB 6/12/2020 12:35:24 AM (No. 441797)
To HELL with everyone of you so called Republicans. We will not forget this for your next election. Elizabeth Warren must have naked pictures of you with a goat. You bunch of gutless wonders.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
akudaq 6/12/2020 12:53:26 AM (No. 441805)
Would a kind Ldotter please share a link or tell me where to find the who voted for this unnecessary distraction and expense. My Alaskan Sen. Dan Sullivan is on the committee, but as a veteran, hopefully did not support this.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 6/12/2020 1:03:16 AM (No. 441808)
Bet me a Confederate flag and a model of the General Lee car from Dukes of Hazard that Trump will veto this bullcrap.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
watashiyo 6/12/2020 1:16:21 AM (No. 441814)
FAKE NEWs! Republicans can't be that STUPID like the Democrats.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
GW_Rider 6/12/2020 1:23:53 AM (No. 441817)
I'm so glad I'm not a republican any more.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Geoman 6/12/2020 1:30:10 AM (No. 441818)
Our country... Maybe the communists just want it more than those who identify as conservative. Dem politicians are pushing communism more aggressively than Republicans are pushing back against it because the people of the far left are more openly aggressive, organized, and willing to do violence to get their way than the people of the right, who only hint at opposing them. If millions of conservative Americas got up on their hind legs tomorrow, the Republican in office would be more likely to do the same. Too many conservatives think that come November, a trump landslide will cause the communists in office and their foot soldiers, who are steadily gaining control of our city streets to fold their tents or jump off of cliffs. Never mind that once insurgencies of the far left begin, never in human history have they accepted political outcomes that fail to put them in total power. Only kinetic action on a massive scale can stop them, if they are to be stopped.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Tet Vet 68 6/12/2020 1:33:06 AM (No. 441819)
This idiotic proposal from Princess Lying Squaw should never make it out of committee let alone for a full Senate vote. I have no patience with people denying out history for political purposes. Ft Bragg, Fort Lee, Fort Hood, Fort A.P. Hill, Fort Benning, Fort Gordon and Fort Pickett are named for Confederate Generals--so what! There are also Forts named after US Army Generals or past Presidents: Fort Campbell KY, Fort McClellan AL, Fort Meade, MD, Fort Wainwright AK , Fort Greeley AK, Fort Chafee, AR, Fort Hunter Liggett CA, Fort Eustis VA, Fort Monroe VA, Fort Carson CO, Fort Irwin CA, Fort Schaffer, HI, Schofield Barracks, HI, Ft Benjamin Harrison, IN, Ft Stewart, GA, Ft McNair, DC, Ft Riley, KS, Ft Knox, KY, need I go on? Point is this attack on the names of our US Army Forts is political BS and needs to be shut down now.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
texaspast 6/12/2020 1:38:52 AM (No. 441822)
OK, guys. I had more forebears who fought on the Confederate side than on the Union side (the only Union soldiers I count as ancestors actually deserted), but is this really the hill upon which you wish to die? I have wondered for most of my long life why some U.S. Army installations are named after Confederate generals. I admire the military skill of those Confederate officers, but they (and my most honorable forebears) were rebels against the United States of America. I am the descendant of non-slave-owner share cropper dirt farmers who were burned out and left to starve by that butcher Sherman in his march to the sea. You want to talk about white-washing history? Sherman's troops killed and starved more civilians than actual Confederate combatants killed on his march to the sea. But since the victors get to write the histories, he was a wonderful hero! Also another branch of my ancestry was in Texas during the reconstruction and remembers the federal troops surrounding the county courthouse to forbid whites from voting. Didn't make it into the history books. But we are one country now. I know that the forts and camps were named for military heroes of the state in which the fort/camp was located and a lot of those heroes were Confederate. Not all, obviously - here in Texas we had Texas Revolution commanders to choose from, so we had camp Travis, camp Fannin (although why you'd want to name a U.S. military training camp after someone who got nearly his entire command executed because of his stupidity is beyond me) etc. I've got it! Rename Fort Hood as Fort Trump! Watch liberal heads explode!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 6/12/2020 1:47:15 AM (No. 441826)
Think again, fauxcohontas!
It ain’t happening!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
MDConservative 6/12/2020 4:43:18 AM (No. 441856)
So, the “Party of Lincoln” should go out to defend Confederates from the party of the KKK and the CoNfederacy? That’s a winner all right.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
The Remnants 6/12/2020 5:25:41 AM (No. 441871)
Aren't most of the army bases down south, and aren't a good proportion of servicemen and women from the south. Ms. Warren is not from the south. She's from Cambridge, Massachusetts. What does she care?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Trigger2 6/12/2020 5:35:38 AM (No. 441877)
Except for Cotton, the other republicans on the committee are all weak knee yellow-bellies, no doubt RINO's who are apt soil their pants in fear if they don't vote in lockstep with the subversive demonrats who want to burn this country down and usher in a communist paradise.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Trigger2 6/12/2020 5:36:46 AM (No. 441878)
I said Cotton, but I meant Hawley.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
chance_232 6/12/2020 6:06:50 AM (No. 441893)
One of the bases was named after a general who went on the be a democrat governor, senator and original founder of the KKK.
So..... Im not as opposed to this today as I was last week.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Sergeant Major 6/12/2020 6:41:35 AM (No. 441902)
akudag, the vote was a "voice vote". They do that so you and I will never know who voted for or against an issue. Congress and the Senate allow that to provide protection to Members who want to vote against their constituents desires.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 6/12/2020 6:46:11 AM (No. 441907)
Useless, gutless, craven weasels. The most important thing to them is "improving their chances of re-election."
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
petrichor 6/12/2020 6:47:21 AM (No. 441908)
Naturally, this will cost a lot of money. No one seems to care about costs anymore. The least we could do would be to rename them after Medal of Honor winners. We would, of course, need to do thorough background checks of each MOH's past, present, and future. There must be a fort in New York. That one would be the exception. Ft. Trump!
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
24tea@Mag 6/12/2020 7:09:46 AM (No. 441922)
Wimps bow to the thugs!
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 6/12/2020 7:48:06 AM (No. 441964)
I see that Oklahoma Senator Inhofe is chair of this committee. He recently was accused of insider trading after getting a briefing on the Chinese virus. Makes a person wonder if he isn't being blackmailed or coerced.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
stablemoney 6/12/2020 7:49:54 AM (No. 441967)
Thanks Imhoffe. You won't be forgotten.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
bighambone 6/12/2020 8:59:45 AM (No. 442037)
If it ever comes to that, and the bases are to be renamed by a law passed by Congress, the bases should be renamed for particular deceased Medal of Honor recipients who were citizens of each State where the Fort is located, by a specific vote of the US citizens residing in each of those States. Under no conditions should they be renamed for politicians. Whatever happens, while they can rename those Forts they can’t legitimately change past history.
There has to be a reason back during the reconstruction period following the Civil War that those historic Army Forts throughout the South were named for former Confederate military officers? Did it have to do with laws passed by the Congress of that period as a part of reconstruction efforts?
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 6/12/2020 9:34:39 AM (No. 442093)
Once again the Republicans fail to differentiate themselves from the lefty Democrats leading to the question: What use are they? Really, if the Republicans cannot get right something as simple as this, what use are they? Will getting rid of all traces of the Confederacy heal racial tensions? Of course not! Stop the nonsense.
How about addressing the situation in Seattle instead? Not a peep there.
Useless and worthless.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
curious1 6/12/2020 10:14:18 AM (No. 442160)
Makes the point that as we flush more and more of the demoncrats from the house and senate each election cycle we need to remember the uni-party members calling themselves pubbies and flush them too. But that takes you working at the local primary level to get a decent volunteer and campaign for them against the incumbent, as well as funding the campaign. Look at how Dave Bratt did it - grassroots can bypass the uniparty machine.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Winstonian 6/12/2020 10:59:21 AM (No. 442220)
And just that all the rebellion stop across the land after renaming Confederate named military bases.
Pandering at the lowest level.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
anniebc 6/12/2020 4:25:20 PM (No. 442575)
Time for a party-blind dragging of critters in Washington, DC. NOW!
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