Costly new Marine One faces veto

Politico ^ | July 30, 2009 | Jen Dimascio

[jazusamo]

Please bump the Freepathon and donate if you haven’t done so!

[marron]

I’m sorry, its bizarre to think that dumping trillions down a rathole is a stimulus but a couple of billion for something real is extravagant.

[albie]

Give the guy a bullet proof Prius and tell him to STFU!

[Republic of Texas]

I say, save the new ones for the next President. Let Obama fly around in the old ones.

[Oztrich Boy]

“The secretary believes President Obama needs a new helicopter but not the VH-71,” Morrell said. “It is time to kill that program, live with the sunk costs and start over, rather than waste any more of the taxpayers’ money.”

Canada, eh?

[jazusamo]

I agree...Several billion have already been spent on this and to scrap the program is a huge waste. They should go ahead with the smaller numbers that are partly completed now, to start a new program later will cost much more.

Obama wouldn’t see this completed for him anyway if he’s a one term president!

[jazusamo]

Just give him a Prius. :)

[TexasRepublic]

Obama wouldn’t see this completed for him anyway if he’s a one term president!

I think Obama plans to follow Hugo Chavez's playbook and become dictator for life.

[jazusamo]

I have no doubt you’re right those are his plans but he’ll have a much harder time doing that than Hugo. :)

[Vaquero]

Marine 1 proposed new Sound System

[Bitsy]

Can’t be cutt’n into our Trillion Dollar healthcare money with that kinda military junk! After all, we don’t need no new planes to protect us all we got to do is go talk to the folk.

[jaydubya2]

“Once the analysis and requirements were done, we ended up with helicopters that cost nearly a half a billion dollars apiece and enabled the president, among other things, to cook dinner while in flight under nuclear attack,” Gates said.

That may be a feature we need in the near future!

[Redleg Duke]

"I say, save the new ones for the next President. Let Obama fly around in the old ones."

If it wasn't for the good Marines who have to crew them, I would agree with you.

[albie]

That “sound system” cut about made me bust a corpuscle I was laughing so hard!

[albie]

“I say, save the new ones for the next President. Let Obama fly around in the old ones”.

...absolutely! Palin deserves nothing but the best! :)

[A.A. Cunningham]

Defense industry analysts and top members of Congress blame what they say was the Bush administration’s overly ambitious wish list,

That's code for the Secret Service and the Pentagon but never let a chance to bash the last administration fall by the wayside.

[UnwashedPeasant]

Why does he need 23 helicopters that cost $565 MILLION each?

Is there a separate one for each TOTUS?

[Texas resident]

Prius with a little beany cap with a little red propeller. Fitting for him. The worlds first Urklecopter.

[Republic of Texas]

I thought of that after I hit post. Obama’s not worth the spit they use to shine their boots.