Posted on 02/15/2010 12:19:48 AM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
Now that the Department of Defense has made clear its intent to move a Norfolk-based aircraft carrier to Mayport, Fla., the battle between Florida and Virginia shifts to Congress.
Members of the Hampton Roads congressional delegation have pledged to fight tooth and nail to block any more money for the project.
They’re taking on Florida’s congressional delegation, who outnumber the Virginians by more than two to one and are already claiming victory.
Hampton Roads representatives said they are not ready to talk about what might happen if the carrier battle is lost.
“We have to continue to have a united front,” said U.S. Rep. Randy Forbes, a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee. “I think clearly they’ve got the lead now. They’ve got the horsepower. We’ve got to hope that somewhere along we’ll get a break.”
The stakes are high on both sides.
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Floriduh is closer to Venezuela.
Whatever is worse for America, that’s what the Obama administration will back. Paranoid? Nope, take a look here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2451561/posts
And Cuba. Two things are going to happen soon: Castro will die and Obama will lose the White House.
I suspect that Zer0 will be gone before the Castro Bros & minions and Chavez are history.
There is really no fight to consider. The decision has been made and congressional funding allocated to start the construction to accept the nuke carrier. Mayport has been without a carrier since the Kennedy was decomishioned and keeping all of the east coast carriers in one port is not tacticly responsible with the advent of Iran’e nuke progressions.
But like someone else posted, Obama can decide otherwise in his blantant attempts to do the wrong thing militarily.
This has Gitmo written all over it.
Did anybody ask the Navy ?
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