While you and Donnie Bone Spur were worried about The Dukes of Hazard being pulled.... OBAMA was on it.
Stop pretending our military is in shambles and only Bone Spur can save it. You're brainwashed.
It's a sequestration, program delay, funding issue. This is as much the fault of the right as anyone with how they played budget games against the left.
Accordingto Vice Adm. Shoemaker, The Navy's fiscal year 2016 budget proposal doesn't include any more Super Hornets, though it does fund the legacy version's life extension.
Byproduct of coal getting killed, regardless of reasoning, the left cheered it on.
Weeping Jesus on the cross. Yes, sequestration was Obama's "idea." When you were a kid about to do something brain-dead ******* stupid, did your parents ever say "Go ahead, see what happens!"? That's sequestration. Obama mistakenly believed there enough rational adults in Congress to come up with a better plan. Silly Obama.
The Congress shall have Power To ...raise and support Armies. But keep parroting that Ted Cruz line that it's Obama's fault, dumbass.
Who controls the purse strings? Without Congressional support, sequestration was only an idea. You are blaming Obama for one thing that he suggested and they voted to go along with. Then they blame him for having the initial idea when they failed to come to any agreement.
He made them stick by a deal that they voted on? Also, where did he suddenly get all this power? If he wielded that much influence, surely he could have forced a vote on a Supreme Court Justice nominee in his final year.
You're right, they aren't without blame. The point is that he played poker with the GOPs sacred cow of National Defense. They let him. I didn't see a lot of compromise out of him. He didn't back down and the military paid for it. Bad on both of them. A real leader would have chosen to seek compromise. He didn't. The country suffered and the DNC was gutted because of it.
You do realize that defense wasn't the only cut, right? It was intended to be a poison pill for both sides.
Yes.
and whose fault is that?........give me an O.....give me a B....give me an A.........
Umm.... the Department of Defense? Since they mothballed the Hornet in favor of the JSF/F-35? Yeah...maybe them.
I'm not trying to defend Obama's leadership, but I think everyone thought this idea was a good one when Congress agreed to it. We thought they might actually act like adults - set a deadline and take steps to meet it. Unfortunately, we found out that they are horribly untrustworthy adults. That's not a statement intended to defend Obama's leadership. It's intended to bash on Congress' ability to be useful, at least that Congress' ability.
Again, it was a poison pill for both parties. No one thought that both sides would be dumb enough to swallow it, especially when they helped pack it with poison. Plenty of blame to go around on this one, but somehow you seem to want to blame one person only.
I agree, and I agree that he was generally subpar in that area, especially with respect to dealing with Congress. When that deal was first made, I thought it was a good idea. I didn't think our representatives would be juvenile enough to let the schedule lapse. I also think Obama should have been pushing on them to meet the deadline. That's where I think he failed on this issue. I do think that our elected representatives should be able to act like adults without having to be babysat by the chief executive. That's where I fault them.