Obama to Delay Tanker, Kill Bomber

Weekly Standard ^ | 3/11/09 | Josh Rogin

[pissant]

CQ's Josh Rogin reports:

The White House has given the Pentagon guidance to delay procurement of aerial refueling tankers by five years and cancel plans for a new long-range bomber, according to three sources close to the discussions.

No final decisions have been made, and the recommendations are part of negotiations between the Office of Management and Budget and the Defense Department over possible budget trade-offs this year, the sources said. The guidance represents two of the offset options that OMB gave the Pentagon last month regarding the fiscal 2010 Defense budget request.

If the guidance survives the internal budget process, a huge protest will follow on Capitol Hill, where dozens of lawmakers are heavily invested in the battle over tanker procurement, which has raged for years.

A new long-range bomber may be an unnecessary extravagance given the nation's current fiscal problems, but the military faces an urgent need for a new fleet of aerial refueling tankers. John McCain scuttled the first attempt to deal with the problem when he exposed the corrupt inside dealing that had handed Boeing a contract to lease the tankers to the Air Force. The investigation landed senior officers for both the Air Force and Boeing in prison. Then Northrop won the contract to provide the tankers only to have Boeing protest the decision with bipartisan support from the Hill -- particularly from Democrats who represent Boeing's home state of Washington and their protectionist allies. Now Obama looks set to push off the issue for another five years, out past his reelection campaign.

[pissant]

A Trillion for a phony BS stimulus plan, a grotesquely bloated 1/2 trillion budget, and he wants to slash military spending. This quisling needs to be ousted ASAP

[JDoutrider]

ASAP isn’t soon enough!!!

[Always Independent]

Bama jus gave me a great idea on how to spend my share of stimulus money. I’m going to donate it to defeating him and all of the congressional cronies in 2010 and him in 2012.

[43north]

Jimmah Cahtuh canceled the B-1 bomber.

This is like deja vu all over again, only worse!

[Jet Jaguar]

ping.

[swain_forkbeard]

Why doesn’t a billion dollars spent on the military stimulate the economy just as much as a billion dollars spent on community organizing?

[Sarajevo]

The BUFF (B52) may last for another 50 years.............

[A. Morgan]

FUBO

[verity]

"...a huge protest will follow on Capitol Hill, where dozens of lawmakers are heavily invested in the battle over tanker procurement, which has raged for years. "

[pissant]

Since they are needed, they better be battling for them.

[LearsFool]

Obama to Delay Tanker, Kill Bomber

Yeah, those might help defend America from Obama's new-found friends.

[joe fonebone]

jimmah did worse than that....i remember planes not being able to fly due to lack of spare parts...aircraft having to be cannibilized for parts...no fuel to fly them....military personnel on food stamps...prepare for the worst, because it is a commin’...

[beaversmom]

ASAP isn’t soon enough!!!

I agree. We need to go back in time to undo the damage.

[SZonian]

The AF has already come out and said that any further delays to a new tanker WILL impact their ability to perform their missions. No two ways about it. AR is absolutely VITAL to the AF. This decision is utterly f’in STOOPID!!!

FUBO!! x a quazillion

SZ

[pissant]

just wait. it’s coming with this idiot too.

[massgopguy]

When they cut the Seawolf program, all the machine shops in Groton CT closed. You couldn’t get your brakes drums turned. Obama doesn’t have the mental capacity to understand that the industrial-military complex creates jobs that do many civilian things. He should look up all the products that were developed as an offshoot of the military purpose. Like, I don’t know. Velcro!

[jaydubya2]

"The BUFF (B52) may last for another 50 years............."

It looks like the KC-135 may have to also..........

[Diogenesis]

[Red Badger]

Jimmy Carter Redux, re the B1 bomber....................

[garyhope]

My sentiments exactly. Thank you.

[GOYAKLA]

If my memory serves me right, my late brother, Crew Chief on B-47’s, had the KC-135 refueling them in the early/ mid 1950’s..

[jaydubya2]

Our future generation Air Force:

[texmexis best]

I can confirm the spare parts problem duing the Carter administration. My father in law had to retire from his job as a hydraulics mechanics supervisor because he had to send aircraft into the air with parts that were not safe.

The problem really became bad during that administration.

[jaydubya2]

"The last KC-135 was delivered to the Air Force in 1965."

http://www.globalaircraft.org/planes/kc-135_stratotanker.pl

[Arrowhead1952]

Well, what is nancy pig lousy going to ride on then? A broom?

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

But we we're going to name the new one the Obomber. Just as destructive to the enemy as he is.

[piytar]

It does, of course, if not moreso. However, a billion spent on “community organizing” (ACORN) buys more donk votes, so that’s where the money is going. I know you knew that, but I just wanted to flat out say it.

[iowamark]

I think we can be sure that there will be no mention in the MSM of the thousands of jobs lost as the result of this decision.

[Vaduz]

A new long-range bomber may be an unnecessary extravagance and people say obama has $hiet for brains they have been proven right.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The AF has already come out and said that any further delays to a new tanker WILL impact their ability to perform their missions.

Well that will clearly tell him that it is a strategic stroke to stop the procurement....background:

FR Thread:

Trojan Horse Obama is Destroying Our Economy on Purpose

And our Military....

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

See #30....one must understand the PLAN....

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping.

[OregonRancher]

Velcro = swiss patent

[null and void]

See also link at #30

[pissant]

BUMP

[ravingnutter]

[stockpirate]

“Socialism will always ride in the Trojan horse of emergency” Herbert Hoover

[PhilDragoo]

Announces date-certain for Iraq exit.

Releases Cole and 911 terrorists.

Rushes stimulus package to Hamas.

Wants to dump ninety percent of nuclear arsenal as Russia fields new Topol-M system.

Natanz is just a baby milk factory.

Great Britain is the same as Urbanistan.

Hussein's War on America continues apace--

[Nachum]

Thanks to Jet Jaguar for the headsup...

The List ping

The White House has given the Pentagon guidance to delay procurement of aerial refueling tankers by five years and cancel plans for a new long-range bomber

[snowsislander]

The Kenyan Clown intends to destroy our military.

[keepitreal]

My brother flies KC-135’s. They are all older than he is, and he is a full Colonel!

[keepitreal]

Plenty of federal funds to purchase and convert a new government fleet of hybrid and plug-in cars for hundreds of millions of dollars.

[Plutarch]

A new long-range bomber may be an unnecessary extravagance given the nation's current fiscal problems...

So, money for government workers, daycare, and earmarks, and college etc. is an emergency stimulus needed to address our economic crisis, whereas defense spending for American industry and technology is an unnecessary extravagance?

When it comes to spending for Democrat constituents, Obama is like Father Christmas, but for legitimate Federal purposes of National Defense, he rails against unnecessary extravagance, and morphs into Ebeneezer...

Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Barack. A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous hard-bitten leftist!

[BOBTHENAILER]

To steal a line from Warren Zevon

the obamination will not sleep, until the USA is dead.

[swarthyguy]

If an army marches on it’s stomach, a globe straddling 24/7 Air Force flies on its gaspassers.

Pretty damn stupid when there’s money for everything else.

And a prelude to more cutbacks in the new fighter, notwithstanding the longer procurement and fewer numbers that the Obamawallahs just announced.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ernest_at_the_Beach and null and void

[mojitojoe]

Is everyone seeing the picture here? Are the DUmmies finally getting over the koolaid hangover? He is a madman, drunk with power. He knows he has to move fast or his coup may be exposed.

[Jeff Head]

Carter...all over again.

Dear God in Heaven, let there be a Reagan to follow.

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[pissant]

Sarah’s gonna have to earn my vote. But compared to ears, even McCain sounds OK

[Marine_Uncle]

And it just isn’t Zero we have to contend with, but Nancy, Harry and their flock of idiots. Shit Creek is so wide at this point. The paddle is totally out of reach. And the sun makes the whole surface stink really bad.