Supporting the troops the GOP way

Here's how our lantern-jawed, macho GOP tough guys support our troops:

Congress appears ready to slash funding for the research and treatment of brain injuries caused by bomb blasts, an injury that military scientists describe as a signature wound of the Iraq war.

House and Senate versions of the 2007 Defense appropriation bill contain $7 million for the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center — half of what the center received last fiscal year.

[A hat tip to the Carpetbagger]