It’s a stunning display of feckless stupidity that the GOP thinks that there is nothing in the DOD budget to cut.
Talk to the guys coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan and ask them about waste. There’s HUGE waste in the DOD, some of it just ripe-suck stupid stuff.
If the GOP came forward with a list of waste and fraud in the DOD to cut, they’d remove the #1 bargaining and PR point that the DNC has: That the GOP refuses to cut defense spending. OK, so give the DNC what they want: Defense cuts - in their districts. Give the DNC cuts galore - that hit their constituents. Then go forward proposing more cuts to many more departments.
But no, the GOP wants to double down on stupid and say “No defense cuts at all.”
Which shows that they’re not serious fiscal conservatives.
There is plenty to cut in the budget. We don’t have to be the global police, for example.
The way business is done in Washington, D.C., means Senators and Reps must “bring home the bacon” for constituents. Even Ron Paul played the game, only he was dishonest about it. He would come up with legislation to benefit his district, get others to sign on, then at the end vote against it.