http://crooksandliars.com/2014/03/war-mo...oins-right
Wait, last time I checked, every conservative who could get in front of a microphone was screaming, "We're broke! Slash food stamps! We need to stop spending money we don't have!"
Now, every conservative who can get in front of a microphone is bemoaning the very modest cuts to defense spending, crying, "We have to be the self-appointed World Policeman! Increase Defense spending now!"
And they can shift on a dime like this with absolutely no sense of irony.
Anyone read George Orwell's 1984? Remember that described scene where Oceania suddenly changes sides in the war in the middle of some leader's speech and the leader just changes right with the new policy as if nothing was different? When I read that, it was like the stuff of satire, exaggerated to drive home a point. Yet, this is what the GOP has become. These people are infinitely reprogramable with absolutely no memory of any of the things they were saying only a few weeks ago.
To put in perspective of just how absurd this sudden shift in GOP talking points really is, here is a graph that shows the proposed discretionary spending:
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And here is our defense budget compared to other nations:
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Quote:Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld discussed the Ukraine crisis and the Obama administration’s foreign policy on tonight's "On The Record."
Rumsfeld called America weak. He said, “The U.S. is behaving in a way that tells the world we’re in decline, that we’re in withdrawal. We’ve created a leadership vacuum in the world, and it is being filled by the Putins of the world, by people without our values or our interests.”
The former defense secretary said the government needs to assemble a coalition to explore putting “pressure of all types” on Putin and the Russian Federation, but that the U.N. isn’t going to agree to that.
“If we want peace, we have to be prepared for war … it is U.S. weakness that has shaken the world,” he said, pointing to a lack of military spending and proposed cuts to the defense budget.
Wait, last time I checked, every conservative who could get in front of a microphone was screaming, "We're broke! Slash food stamps! We need to stop spending money we don't have!"
Now, every conservative who can get in front of a microphone is bemoaning the very modest cuts to defense spending, crying, "We have to be the self-appointed World Policeman! Increase Defense spending now!"
And they can shift on a dime like this with absolutely no sense of irony.
Anyone read George Orwell's 1984? Remember that described scene where Oceania suddenly changes sides in the war in the middle of some leader's speech and the leader just changes right with the new policy as if nothing was different? When I read that, it was like the stuff of satire, exaggerated to drive home a point. Yet, this is what the GOP has become. These people are infinitely reprogramable with absolutely no memory of any of the things they were saying only a few weeks ago.
To put in perspective of just how absurd this sudden shift in GOP talking points really is, here is a graph that shows the proposed discretionary spending:
And here is our defense budget compared to other nations:
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
