[G.Mason]

Is that the smell of ... "We need cuts ... Not in my state you don't".

I thought so. It has a sickening sweet smell, doesn't it?

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

I remember when, after ten years of insults and demands to shut down the San Francisco Bay area naval bases, the US Navy actually proposed doing so.

Suddenly, Senators Boxer and Feinstein were screaming bloody murder...