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The Coming Ambush
Matthew Yglesias — Via David Kurtz, Defense News on the Pentagon’s looming ambush of Barack Obama: The uniformed services are trying to lock in the next administration by creating a political cost for holding the line on defense spending. Conservative groups are hoping to ramp up defense spending as a tool to limit options for a Democratic Congress and president to pass new, and potentially costly, social programs, including health care reform. They also like the idea of creating an unrealistically high baseline of expectations for defense spending that will allow them to claim President Obama ...

Defictits Actually Do Matter and Defense Is, In Fact, a Budget Item
Obsidian Wings — by Eric Martin With Barack Obama's convincing win, and a further consolidation of the Democratic gains made in 2006, the Republican Party is scrambling to come up with a strategy to reverse the trend.  In fact, there is a veritable cottage industry of would-be visionaries springing up. Some claim ...

Deficits Actually Do Matter and Defense Is, In Fact, a Budget Item
Newshoggers.com — With Barack Obama's convincing win, and a further consolidation of the Democratic gains made in 2006, the Republican Party is scrambling to come up with a strategy to reverse the trend.  In fact, there is a veritable cottage industry of would-be visionaries springing up. Some claim that the Party must distance ...