Dennis Hastert’s comments showed his true colors when responding to John McCain’s criticism the other day that the United States has never focused on cutting taxes during time of war - with McCain asking quite properly “where’s the sacrifice?”
After questioning McCain’s Republican credentials by slighting him, Hastert showed his complete disdain for McCain’s war hero credentials. McCain, a POW in Vietnam declined, despite injury and torture, to be sent home from a Vietnam prison before other POWs, because he didn’t want to capitalize on his family connections. This is the man that Hastert, who did not serve in the military due to a bad shoulder, instructed
“ought to visit our young men and women at Walter Reed and Bethesda. There’s the sacrifice in this country. We’re trying to make sure they have the ability to fight this war, that they have the wherewithal to be able to do it. And, at the same time, we have to react to keep this country strong.”
Criticism of economic or military policy need not come from economists or military professionals to be legitimate. Critics who launch ad hominem attacks instructing people with experience that they ought to learn what their experience so clearly, and personally, has taught them are illegitimate and worse, dishonorable. The people of Illinois and the nation deserve better from the man from Yorkville, our Speaker of the House.
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