[DManA]

Just let the military close the bases they want to close and ax the weapons projects they don’t want anyway and they’ll do just fine.

[SkyPilot]

So instead of adhering to the Constitutional appropriations bills that Congress writes, we should give King Obama the right to say which bases in which states are allowed to stay in this new "Sophie's Choice" budget hell hole?

That is what you are proposing.

Guess what Obama will do with that?

Moreover, when the DoD told Congress it is not a simple matter of "reprogramming" dollars, that was true. We are halfway through the fiscal year. The military must cut Operations and Maintenance by huge amounts to satisfy the magnitude of these cuts.

Even if the Senate approves the FY13 CR, it will only restore some O&M money, and the language of that bill makes the Sequester cuts permanent.

Wonderful.