Last month, Michele Bachmann proposed cutting $4.5 billion in veterans benefits as part of her austerity plan. But look now that VFW is fighting back, suddenly her teahadist courage has disappeared!
“One point on my discussion list was a $4.5 billion proposal that would affect payments made to our veterans,” Bachmann said in a statement. “That has received a lot of attention and I have decided that it should be removed from consideration."
So much for fearlessly cutting where no representative had dared to cut before, eh? Unfortunately, instead of learning that government actually does provide valuable services to the public, the lesson that Bachmann will actually take away from this is that she she should focus her budget axe on the least powerful and most vulnerable people. In other words, she's going to go after people she doesn't think matter to her constituency. And that's not courageous. In fact, it's cowardly.