"The proposal was dubbed the “Cantor plan,” after House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), who came up with the idea. Then, Boehner would’ve had Republicans fight hard on the debt ceiling, using the sequester as a bargaining chip against Obama." "As long as he had sequester spending levels, Ryan told colleagues on the House floor, he thought he could complete an entitlement and tax reform deal."
Last Wednesday I voted for Lonegan for Senate. That was the last vote the Republicans will ever get from me until they stop using the US military as a pawn.
I will never, ever vote for another Republican again until they STOP USING THE MILITARY AS A F%^&&%$ "bargaining chip."
The Sequester has punished the military, and threatens to devastate it.
Read the report yourself if you don't believe it.
Screw the GOP. I am outraged and ashamed of them.
They REFUSE to tackle runaway entitlement spending (the real cause of our debt and deficit) and instead to continue to use and abuse our warriors and the institution they have served. No one, and no group, has sacrificed and done more in the last 12 years than them, and yet, they are abused and used like garbage.
I am as unstinting as anyone in excoriating the House “leadership” in their recent capitulations and blunders. But, in the case of the Sequester, the fellow you should be directing your vein of bile at is Il Douche, and Chuck Hagel. For it is they who determined where and how to spend the funds given them, and, like the Park Service in the recent “shutdown” they did their level best to wield their budgetary knives in a way to cause as much pain and trouble as they could. Your reaction to their actions is precisely what they wanted.
Don’t play Il Douche’s game. Keep your eyes on the real enemy. Boehner, Ryan and Cantor will be taken out in time for not putting up a fight on the important matters against a spiteful White House. Soon we may have some people with more fire in their bellies...
Your going to have to, right now that military is Increasingly Obama’s puppet as more and more of our patriotic personnel are replaced with government drones willing to do whatever is requested of them regardless of the limits of the law.
Let us be frank Friends of liberty, the longer Obama is in office the more likely those weapons will be used against us rather than our enemy’s.
Let us not pay for the rope that will seek to hang us. We must shift our Defense assets to State command-able forces.