Hobson's choices - (1 Republican rep. obstructs nuclear weapons defense programs!)

WASHINGTON TIMES.COM ^ | JANUARY 5, 2005 | FRANK J GAFFNEY,JR.

[CHARLITE]

How peculiar, then, that a single Republican Congressman Ohio Rep. David Hobson and the chairman of the House Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee, has received no comparable notoriety for a far more consequential act of obstructionism last fall. All by himself, Mr. Hobson managed to scuttle three critical aspects of the Bush plan to preserve the nation's nuclear deterrent. In so doing, he defied not only the will of the majority of the House but the Senate as well, as expressed in a number of hotly contested votes.

In fact, far from being denounced for singlehandedly blocking the centerpieces of Mr. Bush's Nuclear Program Review (NPR) in behind-the-scenes action on the 2004 Omnibus Appropriations Act, Mr. Hobson has been praised to the heavens by arms-control activists and like-minded politicians and journalists.

[UnklGene]