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AmberX I don't know what's worse. The fact that this man finds it so easy to lie to the public. The fact that he's stuck in the "rule by fear" way of doing things. Or that it's actually working on some people.
The defense budget was INCREASED BY 14%. Priorities are shifting and this goon doesn't like it. So maybe the worst part is that this is an elected official twisting the facts.
Senator Inhofe’s video response to DoD budget cuts.
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
Senator Jim Inhofe (R, OK) had some harsh words about proposed DoD cuts:
The text version of these comments may be found here.
As you will note from the transcript and the video, Sen Inhofe is laying blame for the cuts squarely at the feet of President Obama - something that the President’s partisans will consider unfair, but it comes with the desk in the Oval Office. Besides, judging from the things that got cut if the White House wasn’t involved in the process up to the neck then we have a very serious communications problem brewing between the civilian government and the military. One that would be ...
Raptor Jobs Not Preserved
Lawyers, Guns and Money —
... In other news, James Inhofe has gone plainly apoplectic. It's worth noting that the cuts announced thus far have to make their way through Congress, and that Democrats normally in sympathy with the Obama administration may find the prospect of defense cuts in their own states and districts too much to bear. However, Noah makes the argument that the prospect of Congressional opposition may have encouraged Gates to ...
Inhofe: Gates’ Defense Budget ‘Disarms America’ And ‘Cuts Funding For Our Troops In The Field’
Think Progress —
In a YouTube video that is getting linked around the conservative blogosphere, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) attacked Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ 2010 defense budget recommendations, though he aimed his criticism at President Obama instead of Gates. Speaking from Afghanistan, Inhofe declared that “President Obama is disarming America. Never before has a president so ravaged the military at a time of war.”
Specifically, Inhofe charges Obama with cutting funding for “our troops in the field during an ongoing ...
At What Point Did Republicans Become the Party of Bed-Wetting Hysterics?
Firedoglake —
Looking around the wingnutosphere today, I can't help but notice that it's SUCH A SCARY TERRIFYING WORLD.
Obama's taking our guns away!
James Delk and his namesake son say that they’ve bought more ammo and supplies not just because they fear what might become illegal under Obama, but because they fear what ...
Inhofe 2012
Weekly Standard Blog —
... realists blasts the Obama administration for cutting the defense budget in a time of war, which amounts in his words to "a budget to disarm America." Inhofe makes clear that he'll be using his seat on the Senate Armed Services Committee to push back on the announced cuts -- that "Congress cannot, and must not simply go along...and I will work with the House and Senate Armed Services Committees to stop these cuts."
The video was made in Afghanistan and is accompanied on Inhofe's website by an equally hard-hitting blog post: ...
Misinformation and Overblown Rhetoric About Defense Budget
The Moderate Voice —
James Inhofe grandstands about the Gates defense budget without having any clue what he’s talking about, and blaming Obama instead of Gates (because, of course, how could he blame Gates when he and his fellow far right Republicans have spent the last eight years demonizing the Democrats for “not listening to our military leaders”? Now, the man in charge of the entire defense budget is calling for a more reality-based defense budget that actually prioritizes legitimate military needs over forking over mounds of pork to greedy defense contractors — and Inhofe does not like it one little bit (emphasis in original):
In a YouTube video that is ...
Inhofe: Gates? Defense Budget ?Disarms America? And ?Cuts Funding For Our Troops In The Field?
The Hollywood Liberal —
... In a YouTube video that is getting linked around the conservative blogosphere, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) attacked Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ 2010 defense budget recommendations, though he aimed his criticism at President Obama instead of Gates. Speaking from Afghanistan, Inhofe declared that “President Obama is disarming America. Never before has a president so ravaged the […] In a YouTube video that is getting ...
CNN's Rick Sanchez: Democrat Think Tank Is 'Down Now in the Middle'
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
Today on CNN Newsroom, anchor Rick Sanchez attacked Senator James Inhofe's (R-OK) assertion that Barack Obama is disarming America. Joining Sanchez was Jim Arkedis of the Progressive Policy Institute. Sanchez wanted viewers to believe the PPI is a nonpartisan think tank. He ran a video of Inhofe denouncing Obama's proposals followed with:
SANCHEZ: Cutting and gutting the military budget.
Joining us now is Jim Arkedis.
He's the director of the National Security Project of the Progressive Policy Institute.
You guys check on these things...
JIM ARKEDIS, PROGRESSIVE POLICY INSTITUTE: We do.
SANCHEZ: ...to make sure the figures are right. So because ...
