Our troops are chronically underpaid (even worse than cops, firefighters and teachers), and so i think they deserve any pay raise that Congress is willing to give them -- even if it exceeds teh one the administration has requested.

In the veto threat against the National Defense Authorization Act, the White House says they're opposed to two things: Increased survivor benefits of $40 a month to spouses of those who lost someone in military service, and a pay increase to all personnel, across the board, just half a percent higher than what the president endorsed.

There is plenty of good reason to veto the latest neo-Copperhead efforts to cut-&-run-&-surrender -- but this isn't it, because the proposal is not a budget-buster. Indeed, it is only common decency.

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