GOP strategy on defense: Spend more, LOTS more
Last year, we spent more on our military than at any point since World War II, even after adjusting for inflation. But according to House Republicans, it isn’t enough.
Instead of cutting defense spending after our withdrawal from Iraq and pending wind-down from Afghanistan, they want to increase it. As U.S. Rep. Randy Forbes, R-Va., a member of the House Armed Services Committee, told CNN, “we’re moving dangerously close to the point where I don’t think we’ll be able to guarantee the security of the United States of America.”
That is also the position of GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney. Instead of drawing down the number of active-duty personnel after the buildup to handle deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, Romney proposes to increase active-duty troop levels by 100,000.
Romney also wants to spend a minimum of 4 percent of our gross domestic product on defense each year. In 2016 alone, that would mean an 18 percent increase — roughly another $100 billion a year — in projected spending on defense.
Again, this is what it looks like to be “dangerously close to the point where we won’t be able to guarantee the security of the United States of America”.
Source: International Institute of Strategic Studies
As the chart demonstrates, we spend 1.5 times as much on defense as the next nine biggest countries combined, and five of those nine are close U.S. allies who would be on our side in any fight.
– Jay Bookman
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JamVet
May 14th, 2012
12:12 pm
Rice was a horrifically bad (read deadly and incompetent) National Security Advisor and SecState.
Keep her the hell away from Washington! Far away!
Fred ™
May 14th, 2012
12:13 pm
My lawn mower is like a GOP budget plan. It won’t work……..
Perry the Platypus
May 14th, 2012
12:13 pm
Hey has anybody noticed? Gitmo is still open….
Recon 0311 2533
May 14th, 2012
12:14 pm
You would think that the 11:24 poster who alleges to be a former halo qualified member of the Army Airborne would know something about the 173rd. and other combat jumps in Vietnam and other wars since World War II
Hootinanny Yum Yum
May 14th, 2012
12:16 pm
Fred,
This is for you… http://twitpic.com/9jyrvh
Donovan
May 14th, 2012
12:17 pm
And this is coming from the lips of a Democrat who supports the gross spending habits of his party and supports a Senate that WILL NOT pass a budget in the last 3 years.
Yeah, let’s go after the military as a source of comparative discourse. Disgusting and typical of low character liberal ideology.
Kind of like…na, na, nee, na, na.
Is that the best you’ve got? Obviously.
Sounds as dumb as the Romney dog vacation attack and the Romney school hair cutting thing.
Pleasssse! I guess since you guys can’t run on Obama’s record you all have to go the low road way.
MrLiberty
May 14th, 2012
12:17 pm
The GOP does not want to spend more on Defense. They want to spend more on OFFENSE and EMPIRE. There is nothing going on in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Somalia, Syria, Lybia or any of the unnamed war regions that has ANYTHING to do with defending this country. Folks would like to think that they are dying or their children are dying or being put in harms way for the purpose of defending this country but they are not. They are over there to fund the military industrial complex and to provoke more hatred for americans to justify the surveillance/police state here at home.
Sorry for interrupting your fantasies with the harsh reality of the truth.
Only a handful of folks in washington actually talk about and care about defense. Ron Paul is one of the most vocal and well-known. He cares about actually defending this country (and our freedoms) and so can reasonably talk about massive cuts to military spending and still achieve a sound foundation for defending this country, not the profits of the military/industrial/surveillance state.
Fred ™
May 14th, 2012
12:19 pm
I do Del. The 173rd jumped into an area far from any enemy troops. There other “combat jumps” in Viet Nam were just like the sham jumps in Grenada and Iraq.
As usual Del you are blowing smoke out of your ass because you have no real clue as to what you are talking about.
Goldie
May 14th, 2012
12:20 pm
The Dept. of Defense is the “Jobs program” for the GOP — they have nothing else to offer, unless you work for a military contractor making BIG PROFITS off the taxpayers of America!
Joe Hussein Mama
May 14th, 2012
12:20 pm
Righty — “I remember when the liberal Democrat party didn’t want to spend money to develop a missile defense system. They said we couldn’t shoot a bullet with a bullet. They made fun of President Regan and the Republicans and called the idea “star Wars.” They called it a waste of money similar to their present attitude toward defending this country. They lined up their late night comedians to disparge the idea. While making fun of the idea of shooting a bullet with a bullet, they simutaneously claimed it would escalate the cold war. Thank God for the Republicans and Ronald Reagan who did the right thing in spite of pyscho babble from the left. Well, that system works. That system that the Democrats so opposed kept us out of world war 3. That system protected Israel from missile attack from Iraq. That system protects Europe today. That system protects the United States today from missile attack by North Korea, China, Iran, and a hand full of former Russian states.”
Uh, no.
You are confusing President Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative, which was intended to defend against ICBMs, with ground-based defense missile batteries like PATRIOT, which are intended to defend against surface-to-surface weapons like SCUDs.
The difference between the SDI concept (as originally articulated) and a PATRIOT battery is like the difference between a Lamborghini and a child’s Radio Flyer wagon.
Fred ™
May 14th, 2012
12:20 pm
Hootinanny Yum Yum
May 14th, 2012
12:16 pm
Fred,
This is for you… http://twitpic.com/9jyrvh
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What the hell is that baseless attack about Hootinany? It is senseless and is not germane to anything I have posted.
251 more days
May 14th, 2012
12:21 pm
Fred ™
May 14th, 2012
12:08 pm
251: Two great suggestions (10% and naking nations pay). You and Oblama have both put out some good ideas. Shame the politicians you support won;t jump on board with you
Fred,
It is a shame all politicians will not jump on board
Recon 0311 2533
May 14th, 2012
12:23 pm
Sure Fred…a few more and you’re probably going to tell us that you were there. Pathetic little fella looking for friends on a lefty blog. Probably because he can’t find them anywhere else.
Fred ™
May 14th, 2012
12:23 pm
“The difference between the SDI concept (as originally articulated) and a PATRIOT battery is like the difference between a Lamborghini and a child’s Radio Flyer wagon.”
Wow. No kidding right? But it’s too technical for many of the minds here lol. Clancy did one hell of a job simplifying it though in a couple of his books.
I forget where I read it, but Clancy is still considered one of the most knowledgable people in the world on ALL the weapons systems in the world, from the M-16 rifle to the defunct Satr Wars and anything in between.
Lord Help Us
May 14th, 2012
12:24 pm
‘It is senseless and is not germane to anything I have posted.’
Thanks to Sheriff Buford T. Justice, I get a nice chuckle every time I see that word (germane)…
ken
May 14th, 2012
12:24 pm
Are we winning the war on poverty ? How many billions have been spent on on that war ? Waste is everywhere in the Govt.
Hootinanny Yum Yum
May 14th, 2012
12:24 pm
Dang Fred. Lighten up Francis. You took liberties with my post; I thought I’d just try to lighten the mood a little.
Can’t we all just be friends….
Craig Quirolo
May 14th, 2012
12:24 pm
In the near future we will be so preoccupied with defending the United States against Pandemic health threats that the needless killing of humans with guns and bombs will be a thing of the past.
getalife
May 14th, 2012
12:25 pm
drudge ran a NYPost hit piece on rev. wright that suddenly disappeared.
What happened?
It was a lie.
Anyhoo, the gop are doing down.
DannyX
May 14th, 2012
12:26 pm
“The ability of so many Americans to be led and influenced by progressives in Hollywood, the mainstream media and institutions of higher learning are indicators of how most Americans have lost the ability to think critically about issues today.”
Speaking of “progressive Hollywood” did you watch “The Family Guy” episode that ridiculed Tea Party. You know “The Family Guy” tv program on conservative Murdoch’s Fox network.
Conservatives have their own tv network and choose not to air “The Family Values Guy.” Then we still hear them whine about “progressive Hollywood.”
Btw, any reason Murdoch doesn’t air a nightly newscast to counter “liberal” NBC, ABC, and CBS? He already has the infrastructure with his Fox News channel. I guess conservatives just like to whine about the evil liberal media.
Recon 0311 2533
May 14th, 2012
12:27 pm
Hoot, careful he cry’s easily.
Jay
May 14th, 2012
12:27 pm
The missile defense system is an expensive fraud.
Paul
May 14th, 2012
12:27 pm
weetamoe
“The GOP is not *welching * on the debt limit deal. They have just chosen the one of two options in the deal that their dem counterparts oppose..”
I take it you have a link you’ll share with us that shows sequestration was not sequestration, but was just one of a couple of options?
Oliver
May 14th, 2012
12:28 pm
The problem with tying our defense spending to our GDP, as a percentage thereof. Is that it no longer has the relevance it once did. An example “A family of 4 earns $50,000 a year and spends $5,000 on food – 10 % of their GDP.”
Most of our GDP is comprised of financial transactions, not making stuff. This “imaginary” product is not taxed the way actual product is, it’s taxed far far less per dollar. So there’s even less of those tax dollars to go toward security for the oil industry.
USMC
May 14th, 2012
12:28 pm
DemocRat strategy on defense: Let the U.S. be the whipping boy for Russia and China.
JamVet
May 14th, 2012
12:28 pm
Yeah, let’s go after the military as a source of comparative discourse.
Another fact-filled, highly informative and substantive counter-argument.
251 more days
May 14th, 2012
12:28 pm
I like the idea from Frog and Jam, the !% on WS transactions.
I assume there would need to be some exceptions so someones retirement fund is not effected. .
I am not for the plan as proposed by Pelosi, where all 401’s are taxed.
Fred ™
May 14th, 2012
12:29 pm
Recon 0311 2533
May 14th, 2012
12:23 pm
Sure Fred…a few more and you’re probably going to tell us that you were there. Pathetic little fella looking for friends on a lefty blog. Probably because he can’t find them anywhere else.
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Well it’s after 12 so Del is at the bottle again posting lies and bitter attacks.
Nope Del, I wasn’t in those jumps, but I knew plenty of folks that were. They would laugh about them and the combat stars on their jump wings they got for them.
They were for “political” reasons, to make the 82nd seem relevant and to try to continue the lie that a huge parachute division is needed, feasable, and serves a purpose, becasue you see, Delly, it’s not and it doesn’t.
There isn’t a damn thing the 82nd does through their air drop s(other than suffer 40-50% casualties) that the Marines can’t do with their helicopters.
If you would quit arguing just to be a bitter old man, you would admit that you are making no sense. A helicopter assault also has the advantage of rockets and mini guns to suppress the enemy on the LZ (landing zone) that parachuters don’t have to secure a DZ (drop zone.)
But you go on with your rage filled nonsensical tirades lol. They can be amusing on a slow day………
Fred ™
May 14th, 2012
12:31 pm
LOL Hootinany, that WAS your post. My bad. Good comeback. I was thinking it was someone elses.
Turnabout is fair play sir, my apologies for missing it.
BTW that was a hilarious catch on the breast feeding mommy. Any idea who did it?
Joe Hussein Mama
May 14th, 2012
12:33 pm
Fred — “Wow. No kidding right? But it’s too technical for many of the minds here lol. Clancy did one hell of a job simplifying it though in a couple of his books.”
No argument there. Clancy has a real talent for breaking advanced military concepts down into ‘everyman’ language; I’ve long thought that if the DoD could hire Clancy to write and produce training materials for the uniformed services, he’d be a force multiplier all by himself — because guys would understand the concepts they were being trained on better and faster.
SDI really was ahead of its time; some of its concepts have found other uses in the space program, but none of the weapons concepts it spawned ever found their way past the testing stages. I do remember reading somewhere that the “Brilliant Pebbles” SDI concept got used as part of the CLEMENTINE mission, but that was for scientific research, not defense research.
getalife
May 14th, 2012
12:33 pm
Even the cons are not scared of aq anymore so willard tried to make Russia the new boogeyman.
Laughable and ignorant.
251 more days
May 14th, 2012
12:34 pm
getalife
May 11th, 2012
9:00 pm
We don’t have funerals.
We have parties.
Here is my song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_5kv8QeBBc
Getalife, I just wanted to say…………………..great choice
Hootinanny Yum Yum
May 14th, 2012
12:36 pm
No idea Fred.
It’s been fun, but my meds are wearing off and guys in the white coats are rolling me back to my room.
Paul
May 14th, 2012
12:36 pm
“Sure Fred…a few more and you’re probably going to tell us that you were there. Pathetic little fella looking for friends on a lefty blog. Probably because he can’t find them anywhere else.”
Aw, c’mon, Scout. All we hear from you is “I was in a foxhole so I Was There. and have Special Knowledge….”
DawgDad
May 14th, 2012
12:37 pm
Jay’s column just doesn’t pass the smell test on a number of counts. Let’s see, the Democrats controlled the Administration and BOTH houses of Congress for two full years and did WHAT? And comparing US defense spending with Germany and France (and any other NATO ally) is like comparing responsible parents with their self-indulgent kids.
Let’s close some bases and terminate some contracts in blue states and see who wants to cut defense spending.
Paul
May 14th, 2012
12:37 pm
Sorry, Scout
That “I was inna foxhole” post was for Recon.
Fred ™
May 14th, 2012
12:40 pm
JHM: In one of his later books Clancy also addresses the problems of SDI that they were unable to over come. From what I can understand, they got the aiming down perfectly, but they could get a mirror “strong” enough to hold all the energy and they would get “warbling” of the beam as it passed through the atmosphere not one concentrated beam so it would melt or “slag’ the target rather than blast it.
All in all it seemed like they have the theory and concept down, we just lack the ability to engineer the parts. Kind of like DeVinci and many of his inventions lol.
Aquagirl
May 14th, 2012
12:42 pm
Nope Del, I wasn’t in those jumps, but I knew plenty of folks that were. They would laugh about them and the combat stars on their jump wings they got for them.
They were for “political” reasons
I agree. Guys were begging to jump into Grenada and Panama and were accommodated. Poor Scout lives in a world where the airborne hang around the barracks talking about his every fart and tittle. Truth is, soldiers don’t like to remember wars where we lost. Nobody does. Just ask the Vets of Afghanistan and Iraq. We’ve forgotten about those while we were still there.
curious
May 14th, 2012
12:42 pm
Who in this country hates America?
The real answer might be surprising.
People not willing to serve in any shape, form, or fashion.
People/corporations putting personal gain over National Security. In WW2, corporations weren’t allowed to gouge the government; is that the case now?
Everybody served even if it was Civil Defense.
Why didn’t Romney serve (he was about the right age)? What about his sons? Ask someone missing a limb, disfigured, or mentally overstressed if they would have liked to have had the physical support of the non-serving. Ask the families of those that returned in a body bag.
Many people talk about having “skin in the game”. Maybe if they truly loved this country, they would get in the game.
Oblama
May 14th, 2012
12:43 pm
When the Dems agree to cut programs they voted for then we will be getting somewhere. Jay knows the military is going to be cut. The Repubs have already agreed that the military needs to be cut. When are the Dems going to get to the rest of the spending problem we have – their agenda.
getalife
May 14th, 2012
12:45 pm
Thanks 251 days to go.
I did repent so hope that helped.
JamVet
May 14th, 2012
12:47 pm
I spent some time in a foxhole in England.
(And I may get a yellow card for that one!)
Obama is over
May 14th, 2012
12:47 pm
Clearly the answer is to get Jamvet and Getalife to swap out their Depends for underwear bombs. It would be cost effective and a great way to achieve their goal of speading their negative crap to as many people as possible. Never positive. Never any new ideas about anything or any potential solutions. Only half-truths, falsehoods, and the blame game….It must get really old to be in a bad mood everyday.
ragnar danneskjold
May 14th, 2012
12:49 pm
Good news – sounds like a democrat administration will not end with the usual gutting of military spending. Bad news – a democrat administration will end with more than the usual increase in bureaucrat spending.
Pass the Cheesy Grits Please
May 14th, 2012
12:50 pm
How paranoid do we have to be? It’s ridiculous. We can’t give health care to our people, but we can spend billions on a high powered state of the art hovertank laser cannon to protect us from an imaginary foe.
Joe Hussein Mama
May 14th, 2012
12:50 pm
Fred — “All in all it seemed like they have the theory and concept down, we just lack the ability to engineer the parts. Kind of like DeVinci and many of his inventions lol.”
Clearly, we just need to develop Star Trek replicators first!
getalife
May 14th, 2012
12:50 pm
I think the debt talks are over and the big cuts at the end of the year will happen.
You are going to have to man up cons because the military will be drastically cut.
China and Mexico are working on socialized health care and we should too after this health care plan fails..
This means no money for war and that is a good thing.
jm
May 14th, 2012
12:51 pm
analysis not done on a PPP (purchasing power basis)
if so, you would see china’s spending is much much higher
Joe Hussein Mama
May 14th, 2012
12:52 pm
O is O — “Never positive. Never any new ideas about anything or any potential solutions. Only half-truths, falsehoods, and the blame game….It must get really old to be in a bad mood everyday.”
Dude, speak for yourself.
Rightwing Troll
May 14th, 2012
12:52 pm
It’s not OUR fault someone put OUR oil in the ground in the Middle East…
getalife
May 14th, 2012
12:53 pm
odrana,
Boxer and briefs but thanks for asking.
Paul
May 14th, 2012
12:54 pm
ragnar
“Good news – sounds like a democrat administration will not end with the usual gutting of military spending. Bad news – a democrat administration will end with more than the usual increase in bureaucrat spending.”
The Defense Dept and military are part of the bureaucracy -
That Black Guy, now and FOREVER!!
May 14th, 2012
12:55 pm
Fred ™
May 14th, 2012
12:06 pm
Not Part of Romney’s Flock: Hope you didn’t hang out on Victory Drive for any extensive period of time
Actually no, I didn’t lol. Never went there once. Had a sister here in Atlanta so when we got weekends off, we cruised up here and hit Buckhead (back then Buckhead was still a party spot lol).
Oh wait, I think Ranger Joes is on Victory Drive so I went there once just to check it out. But that’s all.
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I sure did!
I was assigned to 34th Med. (used to be on Sand Hill, but was moved to the main post)
We provided med support for the Airborne Training School.
They used our mess hall at the 498th.
barking frog
May 14th, 2012
12:56 pm
JamVet
Red fox?
Erwin's cat
May 14th, 2012
12:56 pm
ByteMe, if you think the French and Brazilian Military are doing the exact same function as the US military then you are more naive than “pass the cheesy grits please”
Pass the Cheesy Grits Please
May 14th, 2012
12:56 pm
This means no money for war and that is a good thing.
We didn’t have any money for the Iraq war either but that didn’t stop them.
Deficits didn’t matter back then. They only matter when a Democrat is in office.
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
May 14th, 2012
12:56 pm
getalife … you’ve got a Boxer in your briefs???
sounds crowded!
Not Part of Romney's Flock
May 14th, 2012
12:57 pm
That Black Guy
That was your picture on the wall at the Traffic Light Lounge?
Rightwing Troll
May 14th, 2012
12:57 pm
“Clearly, we just need to develop Star Trek replicators first! ”
Or transmorgifiers…
getalife
May 14th, 2012
12:59 pm
Pass,
Good point and now the gop want everything paid for so putting wars on the credit card is suddenly over.
Of course if they win, it is all a big etch and sketch bs.
getalife
May 14th, 2012
1:01 pm
“Boxer in your briefs???”
If you want to call it that , it is fine with me
Lord Help Us
May 14th, 2012
1:01 pm
‘Clearly, we just need to develop Star Trek replicators first!’
No, no, no…all we need is a Heisenberg Compensator…
That would help with the calculation that says we can cut taxes, raise defense spending AND lower the deficit…
JamVet
May 14th, 2012
1:07 pm
JHM, he’s making progress, though
It was his second post today.
Usually it is his first where he obsesses over me and/or someone else.
“The gutting of military spending.”
Today’s nonsensical entry from the Republican Dictionary of Made Up Definitions.
TaxPayer
May 14th, 2012
1:09 pm
You gotta love the experience that the once-experienced trench diggers have to offer up. The next time I need a trench dug, that is.
That Black Guy, now and FOREVER!!
May 14th, 2012
1:09 pm
getalife
May 14th, 2012
12:53 pm
odrana,
Boxer and briefs but thanks for asking.
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Some how I picture you in “tightie whitey’s” with brown stains in the front and yellow stains in the back.
Michael
May 14th, 2012
1:10 pm
It’s interesting that Obama has a higher margin of victory with Iraq/Afgan vets than with the population as a whole. Also, the Repubs have given away their typical advantage with voters concerning defense. Now, more voters trust Dems with defense than trust Repubs. Might have something to do with the $3 trillion mistake in Iraq.
That Black Guy, now and FOREVER!!
May 14th, 2012
1:11 pm
Not Part of Romney’s Flock
May 14th, 2012
12:57 pm
That Black Guy
That was your picture on the wall at the Traffic Light Lounge?
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I’ll never tell…
getalife
May 14th, 2012
1:13 pm
tbg,
I have to wear briefs when I wear shorts or my “boxer” dangles out.
Hootinanny Yum Yum
May 14th, 2012
1:15 pm
Interesting indeed, Michael.
Could you provide sources for your contention that:
1. “…Obama has a higher margin of victory with Iraq/Afghan vets than with the population as a whole.”
2. “…more voters trust Dems with defense with defense than trust Repubs.”
As a veteran myself, I find that fascinating.
PSS
May 14th, 2012
1:16 pm
While the Dems are guilty of it too, Rs just can’t admit they don’t care about deficits. They pretend to, then go ahead and run up deficits anyway. And it’s never their fault.
getalife
May 14th, 2012
1:18 pm
yum yum,
A dem President ended both occupations so the troops will reward him for that.
Oblama
May 14th, 2012
1:20 pm
Germany & Japan already help fund the U.S military in their countries. That presence is strategic to our defense system around the world. I am also for protecting Israel against attack by the militant muslims in Iran by any means necessary. No one in their right mind wants Iran to get the nuke. I was always opposed to U.S. intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan. Both parties voted to invade Iraq and go in to Afghanistan – a major waste of lives and resources for what? For every dollar the military is cut I propose an equal amount be cut from the social spending programs and I will let Oblama decide where he is going to cut. Hell will freeze over and thaw out again before Oblama and the Dems cut a dime. It’s always – let’s cut yours but don’t touch mine by both parties.
getalife
May 14th, 2012
1:20 pm
“And it’s never their fault.”
True.
luangtom
May 14th, 2012
1:20 pm
Not only is it the Republicans wanting more for defense. Just how does your sitting President think he is going to fulfill his promises to other countries if not by a high defense budget? Promises that we will police the world and enforce world order is not a free-ride. We have personnel in over one-hundred foreign countries. If we wish to reduce our budget in defense, we need to reduce our commitment to the other countries of the world. Why are we in over one-hundred countries? What would we do if China or Russia again went forth and put troops in as many locations as we do? Why are we the chief overseer of the world? Who gave us this authority? Both parties need to address ALL spending.
Fred ™
May 14th, 2012
1:22 pm
Hootinanny Yum Yum
May 14th, 2012
1:15 pm
Interesting indeed, Michael.
Could you provide sources for your contention that:
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I second the notion. I’m curious about the first because I’ve never seen a survey that says that and I’m WAY curious about the second because that is totally opposite of the way things have been my whole life……..
Union
May 14th, 2012
1:24 pm
we should outsource our defense spending to china.. imagine the money we would save
getalife
May 14th, 2012
1:25 pm
tom,
Leader of the free world, American exceptionalism and all that jazz.
Just
May 14th, 2012
1:25 pm
Enter your comments here
sheepdawg
May 14th, 2012
1:26 pm
idiots following idiots
Fred ™
May 14th, 2012
1:26 pm
For every dollar the military is cut I propose an equal amount be cut from the social spending programs and I will let Oblama decide where he is going to cut. Hell will freeze over and thaw out again before Oblama and the Dems cut a dime.
Not so. Last time around Obama proposed lots of cuts in entitlement spending but since he wanted to cut defense and raise taxes as well the Repub’s went batsht over it and said no.
But we’ll see what happens this time. I’m all for a program where WHEN x amount of money (waste/fraud) is cut from the budget, then taxes can be raised by x percentage of a point.
The Dems DO have a reputation of promising to cut spending if taxes are raised and the not doing so (remember when the first Bush raised taxes?)
Jack
May 14th, 2012
1:28 pm
We have some pretty sophisticated, deadly weapons and our ememies know that: otherwise, they’d be more apt to test our resolve. Spend more on weapons and less on welfare.
Just Sayin'
May 14th, 2012
1:28 pm
Oblama – Nanny Pelosi’s botox treatment are strategic to our defense. Besides she gets them free through her “Cadillac” Congress Health Care Plan so she can’t be taxed on what she does not pay. Her liposuction was also a freebie by the tax payers.
Pass the Cheesy Grits Please
May 14th, 2012
1:29 pm
Both parties voted to invade Iraq and go in to Afghanistan – a major waste of lives and resources for what?
No they didn’t. They authorized the President to use force if necessary.
I dont think you understand the role of Commander in Chief or how that whole thing works.
W made the call to go in.
Big difference.
126 (61%) of 208 Democratic Representatives voted against the resolution.
6 (<3%) of 223 Republican Representatives voted against the resolution: Reps. Duncan (R-TN), Hostettler (R-IN), Houghton (R-NY), Leach (R-IA), Morella (R-MD), Paul (R-TX).
21 (42%) of 50 Democratic senators voted against the resolution:
1 (2%) of 49 Republican senators voted against the resolution:
Sen. Chafee (R-RI).
Hootinanny Yum Yum
May 14th, 2012
1:30 pm
Getalife @ “A dem President ended both occupations so the troops will reward him for that.”
Interesting concept. How did veterans of the Vietnam War, the Cold War and Operation Desert Storm vote following the end of those conflicts?
Can you show a correlation for veteran participation in a conflict, what president/party ended the conflict and how veterans voted in subsequent elections?
Is that a gut feeling or is your statement based in fact?
That Black Guy, now and FOREVER!!
May 14th, 2012
1:31 pm
getalife
May 14th, 2012
1:13 pm
tbg,
I have to wear briefs when I wear shorts or my “boxer” dangles out.
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Fred ™
May 14th, 2012
1:34 pm
I want beans and taters for supper. I have so many fresh veggies that it’s almost sinful. And I’m too sick to deal with them. Someone come over and snap my greenie beanies and peel my tomatoes. i’ll give you some of what I cook. (Oh and mow my damn lawn while you are at it. Or fix my lawnmower at least.)
you take care of that and I’ll tell Brother Barry to slash entitlements AND defense.
Deal?
Normal Free...and liking it!
May 14th, 2012
1:35 pm
Oh Jack,
Be afraid! Be very afraid. Arm yourself to the teeth and let your children be sick and hungry. God bless America
getalife
May 14th, 2012
1:36 pm
yum yum,
They think a gop President would start more wars.
Not that complicated .
Normal Free...and liking it!
May 14th, 2012
1:37 pm
Turn bullets into bandages and bombs into bread. Feed and heal the world and you won’t need a reason to buy arms.
Fred ™
May 14th, 2012
1:38 pm
Hootinanny Yum Yum
May 14th, 2012
1:30 pm
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I actually thought that President George HERBERT Bush did an awesome job supporting/protecting his troops and listening to his Generals. As such, I voted for him after Desert Storm. Before and after that I voted Libertarian (until Harry Brown died and the Libertarian party imploded). I can’t speak for others though.
I liked “father” Bush. Can’t say I was as pleased with his son though…….
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
May 14th, 2012
1:38 pm
The clock is ticking on this guy. It won’t be close. Not that our guy has all the answers, but that this guy is that bad.
East Lake Ira
May 14th, 2012
1:38 pm
So word down at the local ACE is that Ann is just the public wife and that each Romney home is home to a “homewife”…
Anyone hear this anywhere else?
We need to see DNA testing of all his sons to prove Ann’s really the mother as we certainly can’t trust docs etc…
getalife
May 14th, 2012
1:40 pm
If you are in good shape, there are high paying jobs in drilling.
They are in rural areas and there is nothing to do but go to the local strip bars.
They are desperate to find workers.
No experience necessary.
Fred ™
May 14th, 2012
1:40 pm
Normal Free…and liking it!
May 14th, 2012
1:37 pm
Turn bullets into bandages and bombs into bread. Feed and heal the world and you won’t need a reason to buy arms.
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Man don’t I wish THAT were true. Wouldn’t it be great? Pipe dream though………
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCX3ZNDZAwY
Oblama
May 14th, 2012
1:42 pm
Just Sayin’ – Nanny Pelosi has already scheduled a “lifestyle” lift for the month of July so she will be ready for the upcoming T.V. exposure during the elections. That’s another blow to our Fed debt.
getalife
May 14th, 2012
1:45 pm
You can’t be a player without a big “boxer”
Just sayin..
TaxPayer
May 14th, 2012
1:47 pm
What minimum width must a trench dug in wet sand be at the surface for a depth of two meters in order to minimize the probability of a trench cave-in while removing the least amount of sand?
Oblama
May 14th, 2012
1:49 pm
A cut isn’t a cut any more – in D.C. it is a reduction of the proposed increase. In D.C. there is no word for reducing spending. Oblama will soon be “evolving” up another smoke and mirrors scheme to cover up what this election is really about : the economy, jobs and reducing this alarming multi trillion dollar Fed debt.
Joe Hussein Mama
May 14th, 2012
1:52 pm
Does anyone else hear that high-pitched Republican SQUEEEEEEEEEEE noise in here today?
Or is someone making tea?
Fred ™
May 14th, 2012
1:52 pm
Oblama: You certainly are a puzzle. One post will be not only lucid and rational, but have really good ideas, and then you’ll turn around and post something completely off the wall. What’s up with that? (Oh and I’m NOT referring to your Pelosi posts lol, those are great).