OK, WE KNOW THE REPUGS CALL US DIRTY HIPPIES BUT THAT'S WHAT THEY CALL OUR WOUNDED SOLDIERS TOO????

One of the most extreme right-wing war mongers in the entire Republican caucus, Phil Gingrey (R-GA) is blaming the wounded soldiers for the disgrace at Walter Reed. (He also blames the media for exposing the situation.) People who heard him say "if you leave food around in a motel room or a dorm room at a college, you're going to get some mice show up at some point in time" weren't sure if he was joking or serious.

The Center For American Progress has a tape of Gingrey's anti-servicemen rampage. What is it with Bush and Cheney and these damn Republicans who expect young American men and women to go fight and die in Iraq and Afghanistan without proper training or proper equipment and then think they can treat them like trash when they come back to the U.S., wounded because of the lack of training and equipment?

I just can't understand what kind of people-- let alone 71% of his constituents-- vote for a man like Phil Gingrey... or any of these heartless right-wing thugs. What's it going to take for people to wake up-- even in Georgia? Posing in front of an American flag doesn't make someone a patriot and calling the invasion and occupation of Iraq on the Colbert Report "the greatest America war," doesn't give you the right to kick the men and women who are fighting in to the curb when they're wounded. Gingrey, who, bizarrely, referred to himself as a "Georgia peach," is on the House Armed Services Committee and has the #1 worst voting record on Iraq of any congressman, anywhere. He also has the #1 worst voting record of any congressman when it comes to health care for veterans and active military personnel. Yeah, some peach... he should be thrown off his committee immediately and someone should let the poor, deluded folks back in northwest Georgia's 11th CD know what an ass they have representing them.