I'll let him tell the tale.
Don't blog angry!" Well, again, I am ignoring my own advice. Here we go. I will want to reword this in an hour, but I won't. Want unfiltered Sal? Well, here you go.First off I know that Giffords is a crime victim.
What confidence I once had in the SECNAV gone, broken, unable to be supported. I was a fool to give him the benefit of the doubt. This is the last straw.
Small things do matter - as they often support much larger and critical things.
Ship names mean nothing anymore. The vacuousness, vapidity, and morally rudderless nature of our present leadership is out there clear as day for all to see. I don't even think they know it.
Naming a ship after that bucket of goo MURTHA was bad enough.
Rep. Giffords (D-AZ) was/is a fine public servant and her husband is a Navy astronaut. She was shot in the head by an insane person. None of the above rate having a Navy ship named after you. Announced on a Friday afternoon - I think even the Navy is ashamed of this classic case of immature pandering to the Overclass.
I know she served her country in her own way.
But this break from tradition is disgusting.
This is a terrible precedent. The Democrats are doing the same thing that all political parties do when they sense power slipping away. They over reach and start doing feel good things. You saw it in the run up to the election that brought Obama to power. The Republicans starting doing silly things. The Dems are doing it now.
November can't get here soon enough.
