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Pollak: Conservative Hysteria over Omnibus Is Wrong and Self-Defeating
breitbart.com ^ | March 26, 2018

Posted on 03/25/2018 10:32:42 PM PDT by Helicondelta

The fact that the 2,232-page bill was jammed down legislators’ throats with literally no time to read it shows how little has changed in Washington even after the Tea Party.

But the omnibus is not a disaster. In fact, Republicans scored many important wins.

One is the fact that the bill provides massive new spending for defense — “the largest year-to-year increase in base funding for the Department of Defense in 15 years,” according to the bill’s authors.

That funding was badly needed — and will not easily be reversed.

Military.com summarizes the highlights:

The Navy gets 14 new ships, including a carrier; the Air Force adds 56 F-35s; the Army gets 17 Apache and 11 Lakota helicopters; the Marine Corpsreceives 24 vertical landing F-35Bs; and the Coast Guard gets a long-needed icebreaker.

All the troops get funding for a 2.4 percent pay raise that took effect at the beginning of the year, with the possibility for more next year.

The Air Force also gets $103 million for the wing replacement program on the A-10 Thunderbolt as a start in what Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson said earlier this week is a plan to keep the “Warthogs” flying at least to 2030.

Most conservatives — from skeptical libertarians to hawkish neoconservatives — agree that national security is the first priority of government. The new defense spending will help the U.S. military catch up to the pace of Chinese expansion, and keep other threats in check.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 115th; alternativefacts; military; omnibus; russianpropaganda; trumpbudget
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To: Helicondelta

I am over my rage and find comfort in this article. OK, let’s MAGA. As long as everyone keeps their promises the budget will work out and cuts will eventually come about. Now let’s put some people in jail! Drain that swamp and build that wall.


41 posted on 03/26/2018 4:56:32 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist ( (Be Nice To Your Kids. They Will Pick Out Your Nursing Home))
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To: Helicondelta

“...hard to believe that they will have time to spend 1.3 billion...”

Trump is a builder and his manifesto is to deliver his projects under budget and ahead of time.

I do get your overall point and completely agree: 1.3 billion for 6 months is plenty of $ to get started.

The Nevertrumpers whining are missing a lot of the big picture and seem to be looking for ways to turn on the President before they see what he accomplishes with the cards he is dealt by the pathetic congress.


42 posted on 03/26/2018 5:18:51 AM PDT by stonehouse01
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To: EliRoom8

I just had to reply to your hysterical post. Holier than thou types are the worst.


43 posted on 03/26/2018 5:19:49 AM PDT by Scarpetta (I'm surrounded by progtards and cuckservatives.)
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To: Kickass Conservative

Please don’t use the Amish so triflingly. Call them who they are. Islamists/Mohammadeans.


44 posted on 03/26/2018 5:22:18 AM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War")
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To: fortheDeclaration

> Trump had to deal with this Bill to get Defense spending, he won’t in the future ones.

Congress no longer works according to a Constitutional budget process. Trump will need to deal with that every year unless he changes something.

As of now, we still have Ryan and McConnell “leading” and paying more attention to Pelosi and Schumer than Trump and his supporters. Every year Ryan’s been in charge, has said “we didn’t have time to do the budget right this year so here’s an Omnibus bill nobody has read. But we’ll do it right next year”.

I see no reason to think they will do a real budget for next year. With elections this year, it’s a 100% guarantee that we get a continuing resolution when we should be getting the appropriation bills. They probably won’t want to push the “budget” past 2018 again so we’ll get an omnibus before they go home for the year and they can enjoy their Christmas. The only way we don’t get an omnibus this year is if the Dems take back the house or senate. In that case they’ll want CRs to take us to the next congress - Ryan and McConnell will be more than happy to let that happen so they won’t be blamed. And you can be sure Schumer and Pelosi are already working on what they can slip into an omnibus this year to “stop Trump” or even better, what they can tell republicans to accept if they take control of the house or senate.


45 posted on 03/26/2018 5:23:27 AM PDT by LostPassword
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The problem I have with the military excuse for signing a horrible progressive dream spending bill is that Trump campaigned on being a non-interventionist. So I thought rather then getting us into new conflicts he was going to get us out of conflicts like Syria. Silly me fooled again.

I'm thinking that if we were not involved in just about every conflict on the planet maybe out armed forces could get by on 5 or 6 hundred billion dollars a year. If I am not mistaken we already spend more than any other nation by far on our military. I would prefer to bring the boys and girls home and mind our own business. I am tried to being the worlds police man. How about a little America First for a change? Well that in not likely now that the neocon John Bolten has the presidents ear.

46 posted on 03/26/2018 5:28:38 AM PDT by jpsb
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To: EliRoom8; Dogbert41

You never met a George Patton, a genius Gemeral that won many battles, but with a penchant for swearing. I fully support the increase in military spending and abhor most of the rest of the bill. There is no honor in being a rat-fink. Free speech is not always honored here, but it should be.


47 posted on 03/26/2018 5:29:27 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (MSM is our greatest threat. Disney, Comcast, Google Hollywood, NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC ...)
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To: V K Lee

Good post Lee, but wild horses couldn’t drag me back to Texas.


48 posted on 03/26/2018 5:40:35 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (MSM is our greatest threat. Disney, Comcast, Google Hollywood, NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC ...)
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To: spintreebob

The DOD has become a slow moving fat and happy bureaucracy that has more people focused on gays and transgenders and diversity and sensitivity and safe spaces than on its mission. But it isn’t just those things we ridicule. The DOD is involved in hundreds of irrelevant activities and irrelevant equipment.

The DOD should be made mean and lean.””

Agree, but this is the Rat party stamp on the military designed to humiliate and undermine our warriors. Queers should be banned and those that come out prosecuted. Our warriors are not there to satisfy the objects of homo obsessions.


49 posted on 03/26/2018 5:44:42 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (MSM is our greatest threat. Disney, Comcast, Google Hollywood, NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC ...)
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To: nopardons

Good article and one that the blind nay-sayers need to read and accept as FACT.


Yep. Hopefully those people wanting to tantrum about this one bill have gotten it out of their system and can get back to focusing on defeating the uniparty soft coup in progress.


50 posted on 03/26/2018 5:46:50 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: hoosiermama

I hope you are correct.. That would be a Yuge WIN.


51 posted on 03/26/2018 6:05:42 AM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and persue it steadily." -GW)
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To: sargon

Need a damn like button, badly!!

Some just hate that Trump became POTUS. POTUS has definitely earned my benefit of the doubt. I purposely didn’t listen to radio or TV or read the forums until this morning to let the worse of it blow over.

Pains me to see so many thin skinned Trump supporters. It’s OK to disagree but threaten not voting/supporting POTUS anymore?? What’s that old saying? Throwing the baby out with the bathwater.


52 posted on 03/26/2018 6:22:53 AM PDT by Jay Thomas (If not for my faith in Christ, I would despair.)
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To: Helicondelta

The fact that defense spending got a boost in this bill is no reason to look at it as anything other than a defeat. Its pathetic that, after years of Obama’s massive spending increases (and Bush’s spending increases, for that matter), the budget can’t be cut. The Republican’s don’t even try. They don’t want to try. They haven’t wanted to try since the early to mid 1990s. Using the defense increases as a way to defend this budget is pathetic.


53 posted on 03/26/2018 6:23:56 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Neoliberalnot

Is that your loss or a Texas gain?

Too hot for you? Granted, the state of Texas is no longer the territory it was once; however, it continues to be the best state for me. How long is only a matter of time. The d’rats from all directions are planting their boots on Texas soil. Worse is the fact we’re so dog gone friendly we open our doors and arms for them, inviting ‘em in.


54 posted on 03/26/2018 6:33:51 AM PDT by V K Lee (Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken. - Donald J. Trump)
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To: jonascord
>>Civil gentlemen who respect decorum are always surprised when they get kicked in the nuts by selfish, crude thugs. Their last words are always, “That’s unfair...”<<
Unfortunately, you condone using "turd" metaphors in a forum populated by women as well as men. As I have said, the manners you condone would not be tolerated in the officer's mess in any branch of the military. However, that raving adolescent from Parkland would love that style.

Christian gentlemen such as Lee and Jackson would have never socialize with scurrilous types.
55 posted on 03/26/2018 7:24:38 AM PDT by EliRoom8
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To: spokeshave2

“The Air Force also gets $103 million for the wing replacement program on the A-10 Thunderbolt as a start in what Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson said earlier this week is a plan to keep the “Warthogs” flying at least to 2030”

Containing and then killing the Islamics in their $hitholes does not require super sonic high tech fighter planes.

The A-10 Thunderbolt is economical and deadly to those who want to kill our people and allies.


56 posted on 03/26/2018 7:28:05 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Dems are having trouble with their MAMA campaign To (Make America Mexico Again) versus MAGA!)
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To: sargon
I, for one, still staunchly support President Trump—warts and all—against all enemies: Leftists, GOPe, Globalists, and especially pathetic #NeverTrump trolls...
57 posted on 03/26/2018 7:31:07 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Dems are having trouble with their MAMA campaign To (Make America Mexico Again) versus MAGA!)
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To: Neoliberalnot

What is wrong with Texas?


58 posted on 03/26/2018 7:32:50 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: stonehouse01
The Nevertrumpers whining are missing a lot of the big picture and seem to be looking for ways to turn on the President before they see what he accomplishes with the cards he is dealt by the pathetic congress.

What is their game plan?

59 posted on 03/26/2018 7:32:59 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Dems are having trouble with their MAMA campaign To (Make America Mexico Again) versus MAGA!)
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To: Neoliberalnot
Part of free speech is the freedom others have to take exception "smiling turd" metaphors used in a forum frequented by women as well as men, as well as those who might be eating a meal while visiting FreeRepublic. Free speech doesn't mean the rest of us have to approvingly smile at your friend's crudity & crassness as justify it by referring to General Patton.

Patton knew the difference between speaking before fellow soldiers/warriors and speaking with the general public comprised of all ages and both genders. Evidently others do not.
60 posted on 03/26/2018 7:36:38 AM PDT by EliRoom8
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