Senate strips $1.75b for F-22 funding on wacky bipartisan vote

[Lief 🗽]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/21/senate-beats-back-militar_n_242135.html

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Kudos to John McCain and the other Republicans (as well as the 42 Democrats and Senator Sanders) who stood up to the military industrial complex for once.

[Marokai Backbeat]

Well done.

[JSojourner]

Huzzah!  Any chance to slap Saxby Shameless across his cowardly face...

[War on Want]

Stupid Murray and Cantwell are obviously pandering to Boeing on this one.

[Sewer]

[Landslide Lyndon]

Stupid Murray and Cantwell are obviously pandering to Boeing on this one.

That's pretty much a given. But I wonder what is Jeanne Saheen's excuse, especially since Gregg voted to kill it.

And of course once again Inhoffe and Sessions prove what kind of scoundrels they are.

[k-onmmunist]

Stupid move.

[phk]

Stupid Murray and Cantwell are obviously pandering to Boeing on this one.

That's pretty much a given. But I wonder what is Jeanne Saheen's excuse, especially since Gregg voted to kill it.

And of course once again Inhoffe and Sessions prove what kind of scoundrels they are.

Its where the D's being pro-labor and the R's being pro-defense collide.

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

Stupid move.

^^^^

agreed.  they should fund both the f22 and f35.  the 187 planned f22's should be increased to 400 and production sped up.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Stupid move.

^^^^

agreed.  they should fund both the f22 and f35.  the 187 planned f22's should be increased to 400 and production sped up.

I guess God did warn jmfcst about the upcoming alien invasion after all.

[Marokai Backbeat]

Stupid move.

^^^^

agreed.  they should fund both the f22 and f35.  the 187 planned f22's should be increased to 400 and production sped up.

I guess God did warn jmfcst about the upcoming alien invasion after all.

I wonder if he believes in Pat Robertson's yearly predictions?

[Frodo]

So he does have some steel in his spine...

It will be nice if he shows this same resolve when it comes to health care, climate change, and financial system reform.  He just could get all three through Congress after all... 

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

Great news. This kind of defense pork doesn't contribute anything to society, and is very inefficient in terms of job creation.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Nice to see that the Senate is for once sticking it to the war pigs in the military industrial complex.

[opebo]

Stupid move.

^^^^

agreed.  they should fund both the f22 and f35.  the 187 planned f22's should be increased to 400 and production sped up.

I'm all for this general type of stimulus, but surely you would have to admit that a more effective specific program would be to buy lots of General Motors and Chrysler cars and throw them in the ocean?

[Хahar 🤔]

I expected this from Feinstein, but Boxer voted no too? I'm disappointed.

[ChrisJG777]

When political bodies cooperate in this manner, it kind of gives you this "good feeling", quickly followed by the question "why don't they do this more often?" and "why are politicians so antagonistic towards each other?".   

[Badger]

Stupid Murray and Cantwell are obviously pandering to Boeing on this one.

That's pretty much a given. But I wonder what is Jeanne Saheen's excuse, especially since Gregg voted to kill it.

Uneducated guess: NH residents work to produce parts there and in surrounding states; she still needs the votes, Gregg's retiring and can follow his fiscally conservative roots with impunity.

Nice bit of bipartisanship for a long overdue cut in true pork.