Bigger welchers: KoolaidMan or the GOP

[cheguevara]

Remember the mandatory cuts that they were supposed to apply because of the failure of the supercommittee?

well, the GOP wants to welch on that deal

GOP defense hawks say they'll try to undo automatic defense cuts
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news...in=nbcpolitics

A group of hawkish Republican senators announced new legislation Wednesday to prevent billions of dollars of defense cuts called for after the supercommittee failed to reach agreement.
GOP Sens. Jon Kyl (AZ), John McCain (AZ), Lindsey Graham (SC) and Kelly Ayotte (NH) said this morning they will introduce legislation in January to keep the commitment to find $1.2 trillion more in government savings, but sparing defense funding in the meanwhile by looking to other parts of the government to slash spending.
"We will have a plan, we'll have it in January and I hope our colleagues would heed the words of our Secretary of Defense, of our service chiefs and every military expert that I know that cuts of this magnitude will put our nation's national security at risk," McCain said at a press conference on Capitol Hill.






Whether the legislation advances is another story. And even if it did, President Obama has threatened to veto any attempt to undo the so-called "sequester" of cuts contained as part of the supercommittee agreement.

[in2deep]

they can't do that can they?

[cheguevara]

Congress is a joke. of course they possibly could. but they won't

[boutons_deux]

"put our nation's national security at risk"

yawn, the absolutely robotic fear-mongering.

$70B off $700B for one year and America is at risk? GMAFB

Is there no peace dividend from "winning" in Iraq?

A bogus war that of course made USA supremely more secure, and US/UK oilcos more profitable.