AND THEY SAY THAT THEY ARE PATRIOTIC

If you had any doubts about many of the Congressional Democrats opinion of OUR brave and dedicated military service members. This article from the New Media Journal should put to rest any doubts you had.

The greatest sacrifice a man/women can make is to lay down his life for another, has been an axiom in this GREAT Country for centuries.
But apparently many of the members, at least a majority, feel their sacrifice is not worth acknowledgement!

"House Democrats blocked a measure that would have required new roads, bridges and schools funded by the $825 billion economic stimulus to be named after US armed forces members killed in action. Democrats on the House Rules Committee nixed the amendment Tuesday in a party-line 9-3 vote. The same vote also took down four other Republican amendments that would have funded job training for veterans, stopping all the measures from being considered Wednesday by the full House for inclusion in the stimulus. "For whatever reason, it was not to their liking," said Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, Michigan Republican, sponsor of the amendment that would have honored fallen troops. He said Republicans did not publicize the amendment because they did not want to appear to be "grandstanding" on the issue. But he said he was disappointed that it was so roundly rejected. Democrats on the committee were not philosophically opposed to honoring fallen troops but concerned about the amendment's vague language, which placed the naming requirement on all "new infrastructure" and could have resulted in the naming of sewer lines and water treatment plants, said an aide close to the committee and familiar with the internal debate. The aide, who stressed the amendment was considered as part of a package of amendments, did not want to be quoted discussing House members' deliberative process. Several Democrats on the committee declined interview requests."

I have listed below the names of the committee members. I hope all who read this will write, telegram or email their disgust in the dastardly sleight they did to Our fallen Warriors!
DEMOCRATS
Louise Slaughter (N.Y.), Chairman
James McGovern (Mass.)
Alcee Hastings (Fla.)
Doris Matsui (Calif.)
Dennis Cardoza (Calif.)
Michael Arcuri (N.Y.)
Peter Welch (Vt.)
Ed Perlmutter (Colo.)
Chellie Pingree (Maine)
Jared Polis (Colo.)
REPUBLICANS
David Dreier (Calif.), Ranking Member
Lincoln Diaz-Balart (Fla.)
Pete Sessions (Texas)
Virginia Foxx (N.C.)