They're also quite willing to offer the Dims quid pro quo increases in social spending in return.
This isn't about making America weaker either. The Pentagon already gets hundreds of billions of dollars in the current budget.
Weakening us even more, especially in the face of Russia attacking it’s neighbors and China building a global military, is not the way to fix our budget problems, but it would fix that other problem that you worry about so much, Putin meeting resistance and opposition to his military goals.
Defense spending is 18% of the budget. Cut it to zero and a deficit still exists. Your focus is misguided.
http://www.heritage.org/multimedia/infographic/2014/12/where-did-every-dollar-in-spending-go