My housewarming gift for President Obama
After news of Barack Obama’s cranked-up thermostat eco-hypocrisy came to light this week, I got to thinking. What could we do to help our president? What could we do to show our patriotism, reach across the aisle, and help the White House save energy during these frigid 100 first days?
I thought of crocheting him a sweater, but I just don’t have the time (or stomach) to convert this pattern:
Fortunately, there’s a less time-consuming alternative out there to cope with sub-tropical temperatures. You’ve seen the ad on TV a million times:
SNUGGIE!
It’s the blanket…with sleeves. One size fits all. Perfect for keeping the president’s bulging pectorals warm while allowing him to free up his hands for important household tasks — like signing new tax hikes on the poor into law.
The next time President Obama is photographed in his shirt sleeves in the overheated Oval Office this winter, I’m hitting send on my order form…
Maybe they can make personalized Snuggies adorned with a mini-patch of everyone’s favorite presidential seal:
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I’ll pass. Considering that word just got out about his proposal to cut the defense budget by 10% while pushing a pork-laden “stimulus” package, I’m not feeling very warm and fuzzy toward the president right now.
It’s appropriate that the Oval Office is at 78F. After all, PBHO is a hot house flower.
I think the DoD is going to have to implement one Hell of a “Stop Loss” program to keep any kind of numbers. Otherwise you’ll see the number of new recruits drop as well as officer resignations rise. I thank them for their service but nobody wants to work for a boss they can’t stand.
Are you sure there wasn’t a $6.3 billion ear-mark hidden deep in the stimulus package to buy one of these for every man, woman, child (documented & undocumented) in America? That would allow Mr. President to crank the heat and feel good about America at the same time.
Save your Money Michelle. Just send in Jimmy Carter. He knows a thing or two about adjusting thermostats.
Ditto #1 Backwoods.
He already has a cloak that says “Nessus Shirt Company” on a small label – but he only lets others wear it.
Good one.
Democraps = hypocrites.
I went through the roof myself last night when I heard about the 10% reduction to defense spending in the middle of a worldwide war. We already have enough challenges in the Air Force trying to maintain our long neglected and crumbling infrastructure while pushing our people to the very limit with constant deployments with the troops at home station picking up the slack due to continuous holes in the ranks. I know it is just as bad in the other services too. Most of the troops I work with are openly talking about retirement or separation I wonder what morale will be like when the word gets around on this Monday.
We should get “dear leader” one of those Ori robes with the special bullet proof fabrics he wore during the coronation along with a chemical, biological, and/or nuclear proof linings. Not to protect him from any harm from an American citizen, but he might need the protection from those he is trying desperately to appease in the hope the alligator will eat him last. At this rate it won’t be 6 months before our enemies strike again with a mass casualty attack. I feel less and less safe each day as the policies of Clinton’s third term mirror those of the 90s.
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE (mo-lone lah-veh) Translation: Come and take them!
While Obama is dining on 100-dollar-a-pound Wegyu steaks and throwing away a trillion dollars in his phony stimulus, he’s telling our men and women in uniform to make do with less; a lot less.
I guess all of us who were ridiculed for calling the guy an uber-Marxist during the campaign have been vindicated by his first two weeks in office.
I know the feeling. I had to take some time to compose myself before posting anything so I could express my anger in a way that wouldn’t get me into trouble.
A Snuggie with a FREE Book Light? Wow, such a deal and I can feel all Patriotic too. And the Free Second (+7.95 s&h) Snuggie can be for mamaObama or VP Biden!
Although is would be cheaper to send him those RedState Balls.
Careful, ‘snuggie’ could be contrued as racist by the leftest of the lefties!
Wouldn’t want to be called a raaaaaaaaaaacisssssssssssst!
Some other words non-aggrieved minorities and straight white people can’t say:
Snickers
Knickers
Oreos
New York Knickerbockers
Obama can’t solve all your problems
Any simian reference
half white
Muslim/terrorist
illegal alien criminal
preconditions
Good news is everyone already knows Joe Biden sucks, and he IS white, so he’s fair game.
Yes even the blackest (bad?) cloud has a silver lining.
How about a nice portrait of the new Messiah on a whoopee cushion?
My dear Boomer, you sound so surprised!! Why? It’s the first thing Donks do when they get in power; lower military spending! I haven’t felt safe since November 2nd….oh, wait, since I learned what morons 52% of the country were.
I’m sorry, but anyone who didn’t see this coming back on November 5th needs a wall-to-wall reality check. This is the motus operandi of the Democrat party. There will be further, deeper cuts coming to the military, GI Bill, veterans benefits, and what little remains of survivors benefits. And their defense will be the tired old lie “Bush and Reagan did it”
There will also be deep cuts in services not related to election payoffs: bridges and roads – forget it. The Democrats have already forgotten that there are roads beyond what pork they have shoved into the Big Turdburger. The FCC? Once the analog switch is complete you won’t hear a thing about communications except for the Democrats monthly cramping over Rush Limbaugh.
Don’t forget – we have a Chicago politician that learned at the feet of some of the most foul, vile dregs of radical socialism in office. I’m surprised President Obama and the Unofficial Vice President Ayers waited this long to start their beat down of the military. Look for the national guard to become just another thug squad until Obama gets the
Hitler Youth“civilian national security force” to start turning their parents in for sins against The State.TXgator;
Muslim terrorist. There, I fixed it for you.
You’re welcome! Anything for a fellow Texan.
On January 31st, 2009 at 9:07 am, PKAmmoTroop
Great minds think alike even in the morning, PK!
Only 10%? Might as well make it 50%, or even 75%. I mean, it’s not like He wants the military to actually do anything. Well, maybe to fly His jet when He goes to Iran to meet with His good buddy. And maybe for some “humanitarian” project He is cooking up to let the whole world know we are really nice people who care. But we won’t be using our industrial-military complex to dictate to those nice Islamists any more.
And besides, that whole war thing was just a Republican scare tactic, and if we are attacked again, well, we deserved it.
Actually, we were put in this position by people who didn’t see it coming prior to November 4th.
I think it’s more insidious than that. Carter was more of the “hoping the alligator will eat him last type”…BHO is more like another alligator. Alligators don’t care about protecting their country, as long as they have their thugs for personal use…
I was thinking about a steaming bag of poo.
Obama might need the snuggie if he visits some military bases during the winter. Our thermostats are already set to “cold” in order to save money. With this they’ll have to go to “frigid.”
When my wife mentioned the budget cut last night my first response was that “there goes another campaign promise.” Unless money in the budget is specifically directed to “quality of life” type functions at bases, that’s where the first budget cuts hit. These are things like the base library, recreation centers, reduced child care services, ect….
The military was told during the Clinton years “to do more with less” and that has been SOP for years. There comes a time however, when less is just less and you can’t get more out of it.
Thanks DagneyT,
Man, do I worry about our Lone Star Republic. I do wish it would go all rogue nation on this country gone soft and whiny. I will die before I submit. Hopefully in blaze of glory…I’m all dramatic like that.
It’s how I roll.
Let me get this straight:
Our military must cut 11% off the top, but anyone on welfare keeps on getting the same check?
This thing is gonna reach a head before too long.
I’m not surprised on the Buget cuts. And none of you should be when our boys come home to the welcomes and disownership as they did in Vietnam. When will enough be enough…
Ah well anyone here anything on the “Assualt” Weapons Ban? I’m buying an AK as its a great weapon, but my Ammo won’t be in till march thanks to panic buyers. -_-
how appropriate that it comes in red!!
Adding on, I read the Link
My God is Obama Retarded as they come!
cutting weapons development programs and some newer weapons in an Age when the Russian And Chinese Airforce is gaining planes that can operate on even ground (in some cases better) with our own! When the Chinese Navy is growing year after year at a double pace, when Russia in the T-95 has a tank that can turn ours to scrap, when world opinions are more devided than in 1911?! And most importantly, when our atomic weapon stocks are degrading and falling apart, when half of the C-130 fleet is grounded, and half of our F-15′s are nearing the end of there usefulness and the A-10 is being pulled? More so in a time of speritist movement, racial divisions and a certian nationality calling for a crusade of sorts, and we are cutting….
Yes our budget is the highest in the world even after 10%, but its purchassing power, and given greed….the two Red Armies of the world can buy a hell of a lot more with a hell of alot less.
Again, it depends on the perspective (see my post #22)…think “alligator” next time you see that toothy grin.
Budget cuts or no, the Patriot Guard Riders will not let that happen again. We will continue to honor our veterans and our brave heroes no matter what. For this I will gladly give my life.
Patriot Guard Riders- Standing For Those Who Stood For Us
If they’d only turn the thing around and put a hood on it it would make a reasonably good robe. My wicked suspicious side then kicks in – perhaps it was supposed to be a robe but some dyslexic Chinese manufacturer got the design wrong and made 20 million of these things. An enterprising marketer just said – no problem, just put on backwards and call it a snugee…
And of course it comes out about the 10% defense budget cuts on a Friday. As you all know that is the day they sneak things out to the public. Friday just before the weekend is a well known day for leaking things out that they hope the public will not notice. Disgusting. And all of the pork in the porkulis bill and they cut defense of this country. The terrorist are rejoicing today.
Every time I see that Snuggies commercial, it brings to mind a cult of some kind. Maybe we could have all the Obama junkies wear them?
Going back to the military funding topic which I know a little bit about my hopey side was not expecting the cut in defense spending in FY10, but with this bit of good news I don’t know if we will be able to complete our Squadron’s and Wing’s mission with a 10% cut in the current budget we are struggling with to meet mission requirements. Meanwhile “dear leader” dines on $100 a portion steak and turns the thermostat up to grow orchids in the White House!
To give a good example of the crumbling infrastructure at our base when I reported for work yesterday I found a rather unhealthy natural gas leak in our building, which we share with the Wing’s Command Post (CP). I am normally the first one outside of the CP area in the building and almost didn’t detect it thanks to a cold passed from one of our returning troops I helped with a travel voucher this week. I called over to the two on duty controllers at the CP and they could smell nothing in their end of the building, but they called the Fire Department to check it out. They were pretty quick in getting there and the smell almost knocked them over when they arrived on scene and we were directed to evacuate the building into the balmy 18 degree (colder with wind chill) still dark morning. When the Wing Headquarters building opened at 0700 hrs (after an hour of freezing) I went over to warm myself up. The controllers bugged out to their alternate site while I lost over 3 hours of productivity while waiting for the HVAC guys to find, isolate, and repair the leak plus felt like crap the rest of day not sure if it was the cold or the 15 minutes of breathing in the gas fumes. I wonder how much the escaped natural gas is going to affect the Wing’s already stressed utilities budget with the coldest winter in decades blowing through the middle of nowhere Idaho. We also have base roads crumbling along with our old buildings. The Wing is short on funds for deicing fluid for the parking ramp, runway, and aircraft allowing our F-15 fleet to fly as soon as we can clear most of the snow with base roads a secondary priority. So glad I have a gas guzzling SUV with most of the bases population allowing us to navigate to work.
The great strategist that “dear leader” has surrounded himself with is going to do wonders for retention in our active duty forces. I bet the old tax dodger Charlie Rangel is almost orgasmic of being able to reinstate the draft when enlistments and reenlistments begin to tumble. Two weeks in office and “dear leader” has excelled in weakening our military’s ability to defend this nation while showing our laughing enemies how weak, naive and incompetent he and his staff are. I do not regret the purchases of firearms, ammunition, food, and survival gear I made starting in the fall of 2007 looking at the way this country was heading. I have a very bad feeling we will need them in the very near future as they lead this country into complete and total anarchy.
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE (mo-lone lah-veh) Translation: Come and take them!
My son leaves for Iraq in five days… and this coward and crook wants to cut the DoD? He may be the president but he is my sworn enemy. No, I wish him no physical harm just political. I’m am so angry I can’t see the monitor.
Cute! I saw the Snuggie on Cavuto this morning.
Indeed, the worst crime of the eco-elites is their blatant hypocrisy. It violates the fundamental sense of fairness we all have.
If they really cared strongly about saving the environment, they would walk the walk. Ed Begley Jr. does exactly that.
Remember back a few years when the libs were screaming about armored humvees, and our troops not wearing thick enough breastplates?
Now they have complete control and their cutting DOD? Makes one think the whole “I support the troops” canard was just a red herring, doesn’t it?
I believe by consuming one wagyu steak for breakfast every morning you will be given sufficient warmth to last the day. Obama of all people should know that. I know if I forgot to pay my taxes, I would gladly have one every month or so.
As for the DOD budget thing, the only surprise is the percentage — I thought it would be considerably higher than 10%. Perhaps next year.
Obama’s greatest weakness is how predictable he is. Given his record and the nature of his associates you know all you need to know about the man. The only thing more certain is the stupidity of the pseudo-cons who assured us Obama was a small-government conservative in disguise and would govern from the center, or something like that. Wrong. At best, he is the Lenin warmup for the Stalins to come. At worst?
All points bulletin: We have a marxist a-hole in charge and he means to destroy this nation, as quickly as he can, any way he can. Period. End of story. Get used to it.
At least BO is doing one thing different than JC [Jimmy Carter] – no sweater. Let’s see how well his energy speeches go over now.
Hey! Obama! Where’s all the free stuff you promised me? Oh, wait….I’m a skilled white (non-Black/Hispanic/Asian/Illegal Immigrant/Habitually Unemployed)guy. I don’t get anything.
Patriot Rider said:
Yes, you do, it’s called the bill!
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Give the O’Bummer a slim and tall SNUGGIE–and buy the XTRA LARGE for his wife Michelle.
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We are all going to need them when the Messiah energy plans kick in. No new drilling in good areas, no new nuclear plants, no more coal fired plants–and much higher taxes to get the money to waste on new “green” energy sources–which will never pay off.
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As far as cuts to our defense and military capabilities–you don’t need a military when PREEMPTIVE SURRENDER IS OUR NEW U.S.S.A. POLICY. Only a sign saying WE SURRENDER is necessary–and a RED CARPET for the enemy to use as he brings in the nukes when he gets them working.
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Jimmy Carter II is here–and anyone with half a brain or more saw it coming more than a year ago.
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John Bibb
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Do they offer one with extra long sleeves that tie together in the back?
I’d send several of these.
No one said he is cutting spending. He is asking the Pentagon to cut their 2010 Budget request. I read the request was 581 Billion (up from about a 515 billion budget in 2009). So if he is asking for a 10% cut in the BUDGET, that still means more spending than in the previous year.
And of course the Pentagon is going to shoot high in their budget request. I am sure every agency does.
But get the facts right before you go off criticizing.
PatriotRider, say thank you to the rest of the Patriot Guard Riders for me, will you? You folks rode up here to my hometown for the funeral of Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach and shielded her family from those disgusting wastes of life that show up and protest at every military funeral. The respect you show our men and women in uniform is moving.
Why does this guy need the White House temperature set at 77 degrees?
What is he thin skinned? ( that my be true)/sarc
Go eat some “Big Macks” and put a little fat on those bones.
Buy your women into insulated burkas.
What are you Mr. President, a reptile?
I think sending the Snuggie with a few bed bugs or a bit of small pox might be well worth stomaching the dreaded commercials on TV.
Verminous politicians aside, our wrath should go to the cultist electorate who voted these criminals in. No one condemns these morons, not even Rush (I can’t blame him for not wanting to insult some of his listenership).
Bill Clinton used a different method to keep things heated up in the Oval Office.
The red ones make the folks look like members of the Spanish Inquisition….AND NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISTION!!!
We could send him spam.
Well, he is a lawyer.
Q: There’s a lawyer and a snake dead in the road. How do you tell the difference?
A: There’s skid marks leading up to the snake.
‘Nuff said.
Wellsy, it was cold in Vandalia that day. But it was a real honor to be there for her and her family.
As for our Fearless Leader, wouldn’t a sheet with arms (and matching towel for head warmth) be more appropriate? He’ll need it when he pulls a Neville Chamberlain with the terrorists.
Could also be worn with optional pillowcase with eyeholes, instead of towel, when meeting with Senator Byrd.
Little known part of the Stimulus Package:
Pg 72: Procurement of ShamWows for every American citizen ($6 Billion).
Hey Chap, go read this page. It’s the Obama-Biden plan for the military. Tell me how he’s going to pay for all that with a 10% decrease in the projected budget. I doubt that this plan could be paid for with the DoD’s full budget request.
To quote Maj Frank Burns – “Bullets cost bucks.”
For all their bluff and blustering about “supporting the troops” and “they need the best equipment we can give them,” when it comes down to it, the (D)’s only say those things to get votes.
Funny, but the problem is that if you really want to kill something when running over it, you would hit the brakes right in front of it. It kinda smears them into the pavement that way. If you just keep going, with either a snake or a lawyer, you will roll right over it. Much less chance of killing it.
This is from personal experience.
Having been there, done that during the Clinton AND the Carter administration this is how you survive: get out.
HOWEVER, if you’re the dedicated sort; pride, dignity, patriotism, duty, honor, country… basically the polar opposite of Glorious Leader and his cabinet you’ve got some work to do. If you’re in a flying unit your maintainers are going to get awful damn good at cannibalization. Believe me, if a plane over-G’s or lands hard and has to get its frame xray’d it will be stripped clean of usable components before they can tow it off the runway. If you don’t think “Piranha” when you see an NCO with a wrench and screw driver in hand then your people aren’t working hard enough.
If you’re a maintenance supervisor you better figure out how to lie REAL GOOD because regardless of the fact that your manning has been cut, your parts supply has dried up, and your deployment schedule was just doubled, they still want to see a 95% in commission rate.
If you’re an airplane driver you may want to fly with one hand on that black and yellow loop. Your maintenance team will still be the best in the world, but with no parts, tools, and man power they can only perform miracles on Monday’s, Wednesdays, and alternate Fridays. Try to ignore the fact that your commander in chief wants you to fall out of the sky.
If you’re security you need to have the strength of 10 mortal men, because they’re going to cut your manning by 90%. You are going to learn that ‘auggies’ that worked their primary job all day are not the friendliest types when you post them at ’0h 3 hunnert’.
If you’re supply – forget about it. You have just become the second most hated person on base through no fault of your own. And if you can arrange some “horse trading” to get a needed plane in the air or some life saving equipment for the EMT’s all the power to you. If you can arrange some “horse trading” for personal gain I hope they find your corpse nailed to the main gate.
Now press on with pride, wingnut.
Okay…the website has ambitious, perhaps unrealistic goals. That’s hardly new.
And that isn’t the point. People here are claiming he is cutting spending. I don’t believe that is true. As I recall people were pretty worked up when the Washington Post here went after Palin for allegedly slashing spending on special education, when in fact spending went up but she had simply decreased the amount it would go up from the projected budget. That is exactly what is going on here, except no one seems to be up in arms about the distortion.
Also, what is one of the biggest cost for the military? Fuel costs. What has dropped dramatically (over 50%) in the past year? Fuel costs. Are you telling me that there are not significant savings from that such that the DoD will be able to spend MORE on other things, like armor, like weapons development?
Obama could put in hot water radiators. Then the Republicans can carry hot water to them.
Hey Chappie made a funny! But shouldn’t that be a ShameWow? At least for all those who voted for the Socialist ticket that got us into this discussion?
Will do. Fortunately I have not experienced the low-life scum who protest at the funeral or internment of one of our heroes. I hope I never do. And I pray that these idiots have found something constructive to do with their time. I don’t believe any Christian could participate in such an insensitive activity.
It is an honor to ride with these patriots. Anyone interested in learning mor about the Patriot Guard Riders go to http://www.patriotguard.org. You don’t have to ride a motorcycle to join and participate. Most of all, you will be blessed.
Portraying a smaller increase than desired as a cut,or savings, is disengenuous at best. Example: If I want a Ferrari but ONLY buy a Ford ; My transportation budget was cut 90% or, I saved $300,000. Try telling the bank you saved $300,000 last year using that argument.
You’ve killed lawyers that way?
Or perhaps someone has tried to kill me that way.
# airplanes full of beer and pizza for troops in Iraq. Superbowl at 2 a.m. Iraqi time. http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?article=59546§ion=104
#=3
I just finished reading that Obama’s bill from Daley is
now due. He wants billions of the (ugh) stimulus to
add onto his “big dig”…ala Kennedy…O’Hare Airport.
Time for BO to fork over for all of his training at Daley’s knee. and you know that Durbin is helping to
push it through.
Obama announced to the World before he was elected that he would cut National Security/Defenses. Our enemies applauded. Many citizens missed that info over the manic screaming love-fest campaign coverage by the MSM!
Wonder how quickly the Islamofacists enemies would have retreated if Obama had announced that he was going to modernize and dramatically improve America’s National Defense & Security Agencies by 20-25% and, like President Reagan, SPEAK/Negotiate from a position of STRENGTH??
Without strong National Defense and Security for the American citizens, improving the economy with the Obama Plan which could bankrupt us, and leave the USA at the “mercy” of our enemies or even of a possible attack by our sworn enemies in the USA and abroad, only contributes to Americans’ distrust and NO CONFIDENCE in the Demwits ability to govern sanely thus far! jk
Unrealistic goals!!! Say it ain’t so. I take him at his word.
You cannot count on fuel prices to save money. They go up faster than they go down. When fuel skyrocketed last year it was in the middle of the year and drastic cuts were made to keep planes in the air. Training was cut, budgets out of every non-flying entity was cut, and there was no money for infrastructure.
Actually, the biggest costs are personnel. This includes active, guard, reserve, and the retired. Also included are pay, medical, housing, and disability pay.
Look in the media or Google military medical benefits and you’ll find that the government is already proposing increases (yet again) in Tri-care costs from co-pays to deductions putting more costs on the military or retired member. Medical costs always go up on an annual basis, not down, so with a budget that stays stagnent the medical care provided to all members serviced by the DoD budget will decrease and get more expensive.
So much for supporting the military and their families.
Waaay past time to arm up, ammo up, and stand by.
Three comments.
Obama has also promised to implement policies to deliberately increas fuel costs….. hmmmmm.
For fuel savings to be significant, fuel savings of 50% having a large impact would mean fuel costs are 20% of DOD’s budget. Not even close. Lawyer math.
Finally, all through the campaign we heard this incessant drum beat that the National Guard was near collapse because of BUSH!!!!!!!! We just HAD to procur equipment. Hey, we won the election, POOF goes the equipmwent replacement program.
I served under Carter and lived what Obama is proposing. Yes, lots of savings and these are the results; lack of spare parts means servicable equipment gets used up while deadlined equipment sits. Pilots die, because training flight hours get cut back. Air Defense of the continent gets slashed. Cheap civilian subsitutes are purchased that are far less combat capable the what is used today. Food service deteriorates.
And best of all, because our conventional war fighting capability is degraded, the risk of first use of nuclear weapons goes increases.
Reason 489 why I will always revere and love Ronald Reagan. When I returned to Germany in 1987 and saw an airfield full of Apaches I knew we could finally win a conventional fight. I pity the people in uniform having to serve for another Carter.
But they will and they will win, but at a higher cost in blood.
His pecs won’t glisten if the temperature is too low . . .
Aww gee! If a Republican did something like that they’d be accused of lying to the people and the demands for impeachment would be reaching hysterical, pantie wetting levels.
But when a democrat publishes something shall we say “surrealistic” the politician isn’t lying, in fact it’s not the Democrat’s fault at all – it’s that damn website being all ambitious, and unrealistic. It’s purposely making the Holy One look bad!!!
Not that I’m making accusations of hypocrisy mind you, that would be absurd. We all know only a Republican and/or a website can be hypocritical.
Imagine if on 30 December 1941 the President had cut the War Department budget by 11%.
Imagine if on 8 December 1941 the President had apologized to the Japanese for putting American troops in harm’s way by stationing them at Pearl Harbor.
Imgaine if on 8 December 1941 the President had asked that the Japanese pilots that accidentally dropped bombs on Pearl Harbor be questioned and released by Japanese authorities because we couldn’t find anywhere at Guantanamo to keep them.
You have a gun and one bullet.
There is chappy who is a lawyer.
There is Obama who is a lawyer.
There is a reporter for the MSM.
Who do you shoot?
None of them because we would have no one to laugh at.
This makes zero sense. Fact is the pentagon spends billions and billions on fuel. (One of the supplemental bills alone asked for about 3.7 billion for fuel. Again, that was a supplemental bill.) Lets say its 10 billion total, though I suspect much higher, you don’t think saving 3 or 4 billion is significant?
And in any case, that is an ancillary issue. The real issue is that it is WRONG to say Obama is cutting Military spending 10%. He is telling the Pentagon to cut their proposed budget, but 10%, a budget, which had proposed to increase spending by almost 13%. So please tell me that if he is retaining about 3% of the increase in budget, Obama is cutting spending?
Or do you think WaPo was right to attack Palin for slashing special education budgets?
I may be a lawyer, Family Man, but I know basic math, and you cannot tell me that 581 minus 58 is less than 515.
Only someone with ODS could come to that conclusion.
I said one of the biggest costs. And according to this article, one third of all our funds in Iraq are spent on fuel. You don’t think the precipitous drop in oil prices is going to help that a bit, and maybe just maybe should be accounted for in the budget process?
Ordinarily I would concede your point, however, our President and Congress seem to be hell bent on wrecking the value of the dollar, so any realistic budget proposal must be made with the contingency of a deflated currency.
Michelle,
Don’t send a Snuggie, send the new WTF Blanket! (bad language alert)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h05ZQ7WHw8Y
Huh?
Under Bush, the value of the dollar dropped about 40% compared to the Euro.
But Obama is the one set out to destroy it?
I’m not defending Bush.
Well, one has actually destroyed the value of the dollar. And one you speculate may do so. I really hope that is not the entire basis of your argument against Obama’s defense budget policies.
Are you saying that a budget proposal for a military engaged with hostile forces should not plan for an economic downturn as a possible scenario?
Telling the truth about Obama is now known as ODS. !!LMAO!!
You would figure with all that hot air coming out of the white house, he’d be warm enough. Crank up that heat, Mr. President, and give us a nice speech on how we need to cut back.
You’re angry because of inaccurate comments made here, not because of anything President Obama said about the defense budget. Hopefully the schooling Chappy dispensed with has made that clear to you.
Plus, let’s not forget military spending in Afghanistan and Iraq is funded with supplementals, effectively sidestepping the regular budget process.
For example, we had a $515 billion defense budget in 2008. That did not include $70 billion for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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And you lived to tell the tale, Chap.
I *salute* you Patriot Rider. I love our Western Slope Riders!
JHSII,
So far, the “truth” about Obama’s DoD budget plans has been in pretty short supply. But I understand if you can’t do simple arithmatics. I’ll bet there’s something in the stimulus package, some money for training or something, aimed at special people just like you.
Chap – I’ll give you credit when you post the truth. It hasn’t happened yet.
As far as my ability to do mathematics, I’m not the one who can’t do basic math. I leave it to such wonderful taxpayers as have been recently nominated by Obama. BTW, stop projecting. The only thing there is in the “stimulus” package for taxpayers like me is the bill.
Want to know the most hilarious thing here?
I remember when the Republicans wanted to cut the rate of increase in various failed social welfare programs by a mere 2-3% and the liberals all screamed “DRACONIAN CUTS!”
Now Obama is talking about an 11+% cut in the Defense Department and here’s those same liberals talking about how it isn’t really a cut.
Are you saying you did feel warm and fuzzy for this sleaze ball, community corrupting, Marxist?
maybe with all that green technology dear leader wants the white house oval office can be a test bed for some new fangled solar heating unit…oh and let’s extend that to include the private residence…if the batteries fail at 1:00 in the morning do like the rest of us do…throw on an extra blanket or two…
No he isn’t. You again fail basic math and/or reading comprehension.
Chap,
Don’t know if you were ever in the military, but the democraps always cut the military. Clinton nearly crippled it during his time and BO will do the same. Dems are anti-defense. Libtards believe in cutting the DOD to give to welfare programs more is a cut in the budget, when all they are doing is increasing dependency for your worthless brethern wanting hand-outs from those of us who actually pay taxes.
Except for libtards like yourself, I don’t think anyone on this site thought BO would be a friend of the military. Didn’t BO skip an inaugartion ball honoring the Medal of Honor winners?
Okay, rooster. You rely on your feeelings about Democrats to argue your point. I’ll continue to rely on that crazy concept called “math.”
I might agree with you, Chapoutier – if you hadn’t failed basic math and reading conprehension in your response to what I posted. Don’t blame me for your inability to read and comprehend what is actually posted.
I have something kind of like a snuggie. It’s called a sweater. You do NOT look as weird wearing it and you can actually leave the house with it.
Maybe he spent too much time at the Commander-in-Chief’s ball.
‘Cause, you know, that is the one he spent the most time at.
Had a nice, funny chat with some troops in Afghanistan, he and Michelle O danced with service members…it was all quite nice.
But I guess other than that he totally snubbed the military.
JHSII,
i guess then you beileive the WaPo was unfairly attacked by this board and many others on the right form claiming that Palin slashed special ed funding when spending actually had increased the year before?
You do understand the difference between an actual cut in spending and a demand that one cut one’s proposed budget for the next year, right?
Tell me you at least understand that very basic concept or it is absolutely worthless to engage you anymore. Well, it is probably worthless anyway…
Yeah, that cheap snuggie is perfect for the Chicago Thug… but this is the one to give to those you care about. My dear one loves it.