[SkyPilot]

Dear Lord.

Boehner needs to put down the wine bottle, step away from the tissues, and start putting our nation's defense back on the front burner. It has been held hostage to this "process" long enough.

During the "Fiscal Cliff" that stole Christmas, you could read between the lines of every news leak and see that no one seemed to care about the "unthinkable" sequester cuts - especially our vaunted GOP. The military is approximately 18% of the budget and shoulders 50% of the cuts, due to this wonderful 2011 "deal" the Republicans agreed to.

“In order to get the Republican Conference to pass the debt-limit increase last time, he promised them sequestration would not go in place,” the Republican House member said, speaking on the condition of anonymity. “To be using sequestration and these defense cuts in the next debt-limit talks certainly is pretty bad déjà vu for the Republican Conference.”

If that is true (and I believe it is), then Boehner is about as honorable as Bath House Barry.

In interviews, progressives said they opposed the sequester cuts on a number of grounds but would not trade them for the prize Republicans want: benefit cuts to entitlement programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. “If Speaker Boehner thinks Democrats will support slashing the retirement of middle-class Americans in order to avoid the sequester, he is wrong,” said Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), co-chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

Why would the Democrats agree to Entitlement reform? It is Entitlements that are bankrupting the nation, sapping our national will, and empowering the Communists in our midst. Moreover, the Republicans agreed to take Entitlements "off the table" back in 2011. That was the biggest mistake they ever made. The biggest programs that are killing us were taken "off the table."

Great strategy there.

The military has already taken $450 Billion in real cuts. Sequestration is another $600 Billion on top of that.

The GOP used to be the party of national security. Where are they?

The crap has been going on for years now.

We expect Obama to be a Marxist-that is who he is. It is quite another to have a two-faced GOP Speaker.

God, I wish we had a real leader on our side......somewhere. Anywhere.

[Diogenesis]

Boehner is a Democrat (chosen by Democrats and RINOs)
acting like a Democrat, supporting Democrats,
and practicing Taqiyya to conservatives.

He always has done whatever the Tyrant wants.

[Cicero]

These corrupt losers agreed to the Defense Department cuts the last time, when they caved. So, now they will have to cave again. And again. And again.

We’ll end up with massive defense cuts and massive green pork designed to make food and fuel more expensive. And massive entitlements to all those on the Democrat Plantation. Not to mention the public unions.

[Political Junkie Too]

the only thing that Boehner could be doing is to make Obama out to be a liar by holding him to his comment in the third debate that sequestration will not happen.

-PJ

[Andrei Bulba]

I guess you all think Boehner should soil himself in front of Obama over the possibility of defense cuts, so Obama can deny any domestic cuts.

Boehner made the right threat, the others are undercutting him. Of course the defense cuts are not desirable.

[gusopol3]

I don’t believe Obama wants the defense cuts either, at this point, with the North Korean ICBM a reality. That can mess up the caliphate or any other supra-national grouping Strobe Talbot and Hillary Clinton ever dreamed up, too. Obama coming back to Congress to ask for more funding for SDI? I can’t see it, but that is were he’ll be.

[plain talk]

Cut Defense by the same percentage they will apply to entitlements. Cut all departments by a flat rate

[DustyMoment]

Bawlin’ Boehner has been an absolute disaster as Speaker (NOT a news flash to anyone!).

However, actions speak louder than words. If the ‘Pubbies in the House are ready to dump Bawlin’ Boehner, they have to do more than spew a few words; they have to take action.

So far, all I see is more hot air coming out of Congress.

It isn’t enough to get me excited.

[FlyingEagle]

Disagree. Shut down the government. Get a new one. It is time for regime change, not more of the same. Auto spending cuts will force the loss of so many union jobs, they will throw communist Reid and Whtie house out.

[Praxeologue]

Let this go over the cliff with the Defense cuts. Defense has more than enough fat to withstand these cuts. Consider all those civilian contractors who vote Democrat. Future emergency Defense requests can be dealt with later. The sequester would at least be some real cuts, $3 trillion over ten years versus the $600 billion of tax increases enacted at New Year's, a 5:1 ratio of cuts to tax increases.

The bulk of longer-term necessary cuts will health care: Medicare, Medicaid and ObamaCare, which will bankrupt the country as is. The solution is to privatize all three, but this requires a Republican President and filibuster-proof Congress: 2016 at the earliest. The Democrats are never going to agree to entitlement cuts. Social Security is a smaller problem. Supposed solutions such as chained CPI assaults beneficiaries already being squeezed by under-reported CPI.

Meanwhile, going over the cliff on March 1st is a critically necessary beginning for the survival of the country.

It's time to take your medicine, defense hawks.

[LifeComesFirst]

When Republicans start whining about military spending they sound just like liberals whining about school spending, where everybody acts like these spending levels aren’t extremely, unsustainably high with little to show for it. Iraq and Afghanistan are still hell holes because we were too PC to do it right. Anybody who is happy with our level of defense spending is not serious about limited government, deficits, spending, or taxes. They are just big-government nationalists who allied with small-government forces during the Cold War and mistook themselves for fans of liberty. The liberty to saddle your country with deficits (and hence taxes) for decades to finance an ever-growing military.
Don’t try to sway me, I used to be one. Thank goodness I saw the libertarian light! :)