Grahamnesty and his fellow amnesty neo-cons had ~ 18 months since passage of this bill to come up with more rational defense cuts than this bill does to replace them, but they are obviously not capable of it.
This is the best they will do. And forget dealing with Obama over this. That is a disaster.
This was the sour part of a previous agreement to print a few trillion more $’s up so they could pad their pensions and buy voters with Obama phones. Both parties had plenty of time to trim budgets, didn’t, and now dislike the consequences of an automatic cut.
535 nooses is a good start.
Govt. spends wildly when times are good, doesn’t save for bad times, then when bad times come govt demands ever more. Private employers have had to cut back, govt. can also.
Then let this be the divorce papers between the Republicans and patriots.