This blog is intended for advocacy for veterans health and legislative issues. I am frequently asked to dip into the political fray and engage in the polemic. For the most part I have avoided that urge as the universal Tower of Babel is filled with plenty of commentary, most of which results in nothing more than a the proverbial pissing in the wind.

Enter the budget crisis, or at least the premeditated crafting of  a staged event that has been rehearsed since the midterm elections.

I wonder what John and Abagail Adams and General  George Washington would say about the crippling of our nation over subsidized pap smears!

In 1974 I was in Nursing School and working as an OR Tech in the Operating room at Tucson Medical Center, where they performed abortions on Saturdays. After assisting in two of these procedures I could no longer tolerate the work and and asked to not be assigned to that duty. I had to carry the dead babies  in a bottle over to Histology after the procedure.  I knew then my stance on abortion, and the hospital administration granted my wish.  However, I knew from that day forward that this issue would one day cripple the nation  and be more divisive than the Vietnam war, once it entered the political arena and became a hot potato for fund raising and party positioning. That day has arrived.

Not once since the passing of Roe vs Wade have I wavered in the belief that this one issue policy thinking would enfeeble our legislative process and may well even be used by outside forces to create a house divided in our nation. It is working to that end.

There was a time at the forming of our nation that the very existence of political parties and their rabid adherents posed a great deal of anxiety for the leaders of the day, including General George Washington who had strong beliefs that political parties undermined national unity. He frequently expressed his angst for what he termed, “the spirit of party.”

“It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments (incites),occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption…..”  George Washinton farewell address  1796

Now, this is as prophetic as Isaiah in the Old Testament!  Tell me how much we have evolved as a body politic?

“Who by taking up thought can add a cubit to their stature?’  And what may be the stature of the elected officials as we approach an impasse, in two hours, that is blatant in its red herring aspects of not addressing the budget deficit and serving solely as a megaphone for party politics. What an embarrassment to the youth of this nation and to our soldiers.

Abortion should be addressed outside the political spectrum as it will be an eternal black hole in the hands of the paid for electeds.

If we want to balance the budget, stop funding private mercenaries who number 1:1 for every member of the Armed Forces over seas. They are performing abortions of the natural democratic  diplomatic process.

Coupled with the 11 billion a month for the cost of  multiple wars and the lifetime care of disabled veterans we are going broke policing the world.

Planned Parenthood needs no guns.