Reynolds Late With His Support of Troops

Calls policy an ‘embarrassment’

Earlier this week the Swede posted about injured soldiers having their signing bonuses recalled.

In a case of too little too late Congressman Thomas Reynolds (R-26) urged the Department of Defense and Secretary Robert Gates to cease calling on these servicemen and women to return the aforementioned bonuses in a letter dated the 21st of November:

…This practice, set in place before your tenure, is completely misguided and needs to be remedied immediately.

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…We need to restore the American peoples’ trust and faith in the Department of Defense by immediately reversing this current policy.

The release on Reynolds’ site also states that the Congressman “has just co-sponsored legislation,” specifically H.R. 3793, that would ensure benefits be paid to a soldier injured in the line of duty.

Seems like a no-brainer, in fact the principle that legislation is actually needed in order to establish precedents for how this White House should conduct itself in this matter seems rather absurd, but it is here that I must call Shenanigans Mr. Reynolds.

It seems Representative Reynolds did not find this policy enough of an embarrassment as recently as October 20th of this year to be an original co-sponsor of the bill but, in fairness, with the exception of Edolphus Towns neither did any of his fellow House members from New York.

However, nor did Reynolds find the policy to be enough of a “travesty” to be listed as a co-sponsor of the legislation as recently as November 15th even though 219 of his fellow legislators had found it wise to lend their names to the bill.

Reynolds’ blind allegiance to the current administration has given the man tunnel vision of such an extreme nature that he is only rattled to action by the screaming of headlines and the looming reaction to said issue of every voter of every registration within his district.