The administration's stated budget priorities - Glenn Greenwald

[MNBrewer]

"The theory of Round II of the debt deal is that both parties will be motivated to reach an agreement in the "Super-Committee" on how to reduce the debt by another $1.5 trillion because, if they fail to agree, there will be automatic cuts that are horrendous to each party: draconian domestic cuts will scare Democrats into compromising, while supposedly substantial reductions in military spending will frighten the GOP. But a serious and quite predictable deviation from that scheme has already emerged: Republicans (at least its Tea Party faction) don't seem bothered at all by the prospects of military cuts, while Democrats -- specifically the Obama administration -- are acting as if such cuts, literally, would be nation-threatening.

Yesterday, President Obama's Defense Secretary, Leon Panetta, donned his Dr. Strangelove hat and decried these prospective cuts as a "doomsday mechanism" -- doomsday! -- warning that these would be "very dangerous cuts" that "would do real damage to our security, our troops and their families, and our military's ability to protect the nation."

<http://www.salon.com/news/pentagon/index.html?story=/opinion/greenwald/2011/08/05/military>

[OHdem10]

1. The Tea Party supporters are as tired of War and the Tea Partiers

see Military Spending as out of control.

Conservadems(Third Way and DLC, many of whom are NEOCONS)
have never seen any Military Spending they do not like.

We have a Conservative Democratic Party so Greenwald's
observations are true. Democrats will vote with Republicans
to maintain Military spending. Watch.

[MNBrewer]

2. I believe that both you and he are correct on that point.

[indepat]

3. Devastating cuts bore by the old, frail, and poor must be made so we can still spend as much on the

MIC as the rest of the world although having only 5% of the population. After all, global hegemony does not come cheap and $400-$800 a gallon gas in Afghanistan really mounts up. :patriot:

[MNBrewer]

4. Panetta is another Clinton Administration retread

Democratic party is the war party now? in unison with the Republicans?