Obama should discipline the Dems

ARTICLE: House Seems To Be Set on Pork-Padded Defense Bill, By R. Jeffrey Smith, Washington Post, July 30, 2009

Obama should veto the defense bill. It is a horrible example of Dem. leadership in Congress: they simply aren't herding the cats well.

Pork barreling at its best: robbing the taxpayer AND the warfighter (who will see resources gobbled up by huge platforms he does not need).

Plenty of shame to go around...

Comments

[Dirk2112]

Yeah, he should definitely veto this crap bill.

But I'm starting to think there's a bigger problem here ... the liberal media. No not the media in general but the actual liberal media. In that they've done a piss poor job educating their audience re defense issues. I mean, when the F-22 died Rachel Maddow had Barney Frank on to talk about it. Not you, not Spencer Ackerman, not Eli Lake; Barney Frank ... who's commentary predictably missed every relevant point.

So porker bills like this one fail to generate constituent blowback.

[Steven J.]

Will be interesting to see what this does for the mid term elections in 2010. This is a good example of why we hate "everyone else's" legislators.

We will also see what kind of a leader Obama is when this defense bill gets put on his desk.