Obama threatens Veto over inclusion of F-22 funds in defense spending bill

by Infidelesto on June 26, 2009 · Comments

While the Democrats in power throw away TRILLIONS in spending on bailouts, stimulus, porkulus, omnibus, cap and tax, health care and all the rest, Obama is threatening his first Veto over 1 Billion in spending inside a $680 Billion defense spending bill.

yes that’s .15% of the entire bill, folks.  And he’s threatening a Veto. Talk about blatant unilateral disarmament.

ABC News

Congress and the White House appear headed for a collision. The White House this week threatened to veto a defense bill if it includes military spending that Defense Secretary Gates outlined as wasteful and unnecessary. The House passed the $680 billion bill with those provisions Thursday, by a vote of 389-22.

Specifically, President Obama opposes the inclusion of $369 million in the bill for more F-22 fighter jets and $603 million for development and procurement of the alternative engine program for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Program.

If the final bill presented to the president contains either of those provision, a White House statement released Wednesday threatened, “the president’s senior advisors would recommend a veto.”

I’ll let Ed Morrissey take over from here:

Um, seriously? For the record, the combined total of these two programs amounts to:

  • 0.13% of Porkulus
  • 0.14% of the defense bill
  • 0.0972% of what Obama claims ObamaCare will cost
  • 0.075% of what the CBO claims ObamaCare will cost
  • 0.024% of what ObamaCare will actually cost

Bear in mind that Porkulus (mostly) and ObamaCare (entirely) don’t concern themselves with responsibilities given to the federal government by the Constitution.  National security, however, is the federal government’s primary responsibility.  Robert Gibbs says that these and other projects in the defense appropriation are not “necessary spending,” which is why the bill will draw Obama’s first veto — as well as giving Obama an opportunity to posture at the expense of Congress.

If Obama wants to start saving billions of dollars, let’s cut the spending on programs which the federal government has no business funding in the first place, and then get rid of the pork-barrel projects in Porkulus that will damage our economy with burdensome debt.  When we’re done shedding all of those, then we can start looking at national defense.

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  • dunno_moire
    I hope this isn't another case of naive idealism making our military too weak to be useful when it's needed to confront a danger all the optimism in the world couldn't prevent.
  • JEWHAWK
    Gee,I was already DREAMING about 40 or 50 F-22's displaying
    STARS OF DAVID on their wings painted with the rather attractive Israeli
    camouflage scheme...
    Pity Uncle Hussein,I say,Uncle Sam couldn't afford.

    The RUSKYES will come up with something looking like the
    F-22.Or the CHINESE.
  • Moosey Jewels
    You need a "Islamic Joke of The Day" section
  • funkybarfly
    Obama is a true Democrat.The profit of MEDIOCRITY.
    A socialist pure and simple.
    The crafty and repugnant art of using card carrying leftists(school teachers) to get the children while they are still young and impressionable and pass it off as curriculum(man made global warming anyone?)is their strength.The worldwide Green movement is just another tentacle of the socialist monster:their modus operandi is to tax "emissions" i.e. wealthy nations and redistribute those tax dollars to poor nations with no "emissions"(they have no emissions because they have no industry as they are backward and clueless): A total whitewash.
    The mainstream media is in cahoots with this bunch:Al Gore and Michael Moore are passed off as educational while anyone who questions them is labelled a "denier".
    Truth has no place in socialism only consensus.They have the schools,they have the media and now they have the government.
    Why would Obama spend money on defence when his socialist doctrine dictates that everyone is equal?;verily if everyone is equal then there is nothing to fight about right?,Nothing to fight about:no war:no need for defence.Remember Obama's speech in Germany during the run up to the Presidential election,which contained lines like "opening the borders" .Treason is not too strong a term to use when describing Western leaders at the moment:Obama,Brown,our own Kevin Rudd here in Australia;Israel is the fly in the ointment:which explains Obama's recalcitrant attitude during his recent meeting with the Israeli Leader does it not?
    Obama's war is a war on his own people;he doesn't need to protect America's borders to achieve his victory but on the contrary he needs less protection of them.
    The more mosques that are built,the more industry that fails(he can then take control of them),the more values he can undermine the better.
    He cannot build his socialist utopia without first destroying what Old America represents.The Marxist concept that capitalism would destroy itself in the long run is proving to be quite prophetic.
  • Tonto
    It's like I keep saying sportsfans, the normal democrap MO is to tax, pay off their support, slash defence for their "porkapotomus programs, suck up and appease the enemy, and set things up for some dingbat that percieves the US as weakened and a war starts. The BEST part is that young men DIE defending us until we re-catch up to where our military strength was BEFORE the frickin dimwittocraps screwed with it.....nice (as Borat would say).
  • Storm_Rider
    Obama is waging political war against the United States by undermining our national self-defense and thereby giving aid and comfort to our Totalitarian Islamist enemies.

    I believe Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Patrick Henry, and our other founding fathers would have arrested President Obama on charges of treason; and he would have been deported after being tarred and feathered; and if he resisted arrest, he would have received capital punishment.

    President Obama needs to be impeached for this assault on our national defense which gives aid and comfort to our enemies; and because he has never produced a real birth certificate proving that he is a natural-born citizen of the United States.
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