[sickoflibs]

I told-ya this is what Panetta was getting at.

What Democrats are saying is that if we want deficit reduction they will give us the following choices :

1) Raise taxes on ‘the rich’
Note that taxes go up after the election is nothing is done.
2) Cut defense

And a third option being no deficit reduction.

Alternatively a passed and signed budget bill in 2013 could replace the trigger cuts, but we are likely to have the same problem then as we did this year: gridlock. Plus at this point we CAN'T count on Republicans doing especially well in the next election.

[Marine_Uncle]

RE: “I told-ya this is what Panetta was getting at.” To which I agreed. The goons put Panetta into the position of SoD for a good reason.

[SunkenCiv]

IOW, this was the Demwit plan all along — cutting our national defense, which, unlike the money laundering (called ‘stimulus’ by Zero et al), is actually a duty of the federal government according to the Constitution.

Thanks sickoflibs.