Brian: Wait a minute. Wasn’t Obama the guy who pledged to check every line on the federal budget and eliminate waste and mis-spending?
As far as the Obama Administration recognizing that military spending is out of line: Why in the hell did Obama just approve the largest defense budget ever? That is completely insane: Obama, recognizing that military spending is out of line, goes ahead and votes for MORE of it. Uh, yeah, okay, that makes sense.
No, Gates is doing this on his own, completely independent of Obama, and you’d better believe that Gates knows how many pols, Dem and Repub, have fat defense jobs in their home districts, and will fight this tooth and claw.
