Obama vetoes defense spending bill

| October 23, 2015

You know what is more important than defense? Everything else, according to our President who has used his veto on the latest defense spending bill. His reason? Because it doesn’t give him the flexibility to hammer military retirees with higher out-of-pocket healthcare costs. The Congress tried to skirt spending caps by funding military operations with the “overseas contingency operations account”, but Obama would rather they just bust the spending caps so he can bust spending caps for domestic funds. From the Washington Post;

“The president believes that the men and women who serve in our armed forces deserve adequate and responsible funding, not through a gimmick or not through a slush fund but one that would — could withstand scrutiny,” White House spokesman Eric Schultz said.

Nice crocodile tears, especially since the White House wants to jack up healthcare costs for folks who use Tricare – you know, folks who were promised healthcare in exchange for their service, and now that we’ve held up our end of the bargain, the Obama Administration wants to renege on their part.

It was this administration that engineered the “sequestration” budget caps for defense, but they’re not willing to cap the EPA, the Commerce Department, the Education Department and all of the other government functions that bleed our GDP dry.

The administration also opposes restrictions on how it deals with detainees at the Guantanamo detention facility in Cuba. Obama has said he wants to shut down the facility by the end of his presidency.

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The main stumbling block to completing the plan to close the prison is the question of where to house prisoners who are being tried or are being indefinitely detained.

That’s silly, too. Holding up defense spending for the sake of a few international criminals. You really have to wonder about the priorities of this administration. I mean, if their intent is not to destroy the national security structure, it sure doesn’t appear that way.

Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.

Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden

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MCPO NYC USN Ret.

Yo dog … 40% of our nation is on the dole. Some say that number should only be at 18%.

Those entitlement dollars are key to ensuring the Dems get the votes they need.

The Other Whitey

Which is why a law should be passed that makes you ineligible to vote while collecting Welfare.

Wrench Monkey

While that would be a common sense law (see, we can use those words too) in an ideal world, just remember the fabricated shit storm that follows simply suggesting voter ID.

HMCS (FMF) ret.

BUT… BUT… then you’d be keeping at least 70% of the Donkeycrat party DOWN… OPPRESSING their rights as members of the Free Shit Army to such off the tit that the Bodaprez gives them every month… Keeping my brothers and sisters DOWN in their EPIC struggle against YOU and YOUR MINIONS who work for “DA MAN”…

/sarc

A Proud Infidel®™

But just THINK ABOUT how that would anger those who blow their EBT money on booze, cigarettes, lottery tickets and weed while they bawl about not being able to feed their kids, that’s as “racist” as investigating welfare fraud, waste and abuse!

Casey

Whoops. Didn’t see your reply, PI. 🙂

Casey

That’s racist!!!

{/sarc}

UpNorth

Yet, if an attempt is made to over ride his veto, the dems will vote in lockstep with the pResident, not for what’s good for the country and it’s military. The demorat party, putting their interests over the interests of the country since forever.

2/17 Air Cav

“You really have to wonder about the priorities of this administration.” Anyone who is still wondering just hasn’t been paying attention for the past 6 years or so. His beef, the reason for the veto–something he has rarely had to use with the present RINO Congress and certainly not with the Congress under D control–is that he wants equal funding for social programs and entitlements. He is a son of a bitch. Questions?

OWB

Not sure how anyone could misinterpret what the socialist meant when he promised back then to transform America. They didn’t care then, and apparently still don’t.

But to your point – yeah, no surprise at all. No questions. Am having just a bit of difficulty suppressing the words, “Told you so.”

ChipNASA

That’s it….

Fuck you Obama…just Fuck you.
Hard.
I’ve had it.

Old Trooper

Yeah! What he said!

Arby

At one time I could put out a well worded response. But this administration has done so many things that I am so fed up, demoralized, and tired that I have been reduced to saying “Fuck you obama and everything you have done.”

HMCS (FMF) ret.

Bodaprez needs to show “DA MAN” who wears the mom jeanz in the “family”… plus, he’z got to keep his peeps in the 57 states that he is the preezy of all happy by making sure they gets their moneyz to buy that 127” flat screen and that new Beemer sitting in the driveway of the home that is in foreclosure (another conspiracy of “DA MAN” to hold his peeps down).

GOTZ to keep the Free Shit Army happy…

CLAW131

I hope they hurry up and have another sequestration.

I got a new mattress since the last sequestration and I’ve been chomping at the bit to tear the “Do not remove under penalty of law” tag off of it while the government is shut down and can’t send a hunter-killer SWAT team out to cart me off to the hoosegow. (Smile)

Ex-PH2

Well, the good news is that it’s Friday, and Peking lame duck is on the menu. Anyone want orange-ginger sauce with that?

A Proud Infidel®™

According to B. Hussein 0bama & Company, sacrifices are for us working class peasants, Heaven forbid that B. Hussein himself sacrifice even ONE round of golf costing us taxpaying peasants a six-digit amount of money, let alone the opulent vacations he treats himself and his family to! What else is more important to B-HO and his gang? Illegal aliens and welfare flunkies as well as the hordes of third world Muslims he wants to infest the USA with while he tells his minions to hand all they can to them as fast as they can while putting out that we Vets and Patriots are vile racist vermin that need to be silenced.

Devtun

Air Force One, Marine One, Army One, etc. works just fine for his & the misses vacays, fundraisers, & general pleasure…waaats the problem…err, what difference does it make?! The GOP is the party of “no”, and the blame Bush card still has plenty of credits on it.

Sparks

That’s just fucking great! Now more money for welfare scum and new refugees from Syria. Fucking dick sucking, ass hole licking, worthless piece of shit, posing as a Commander In Chief! Go fuck yourself and if the White House is overrun by terrorists, call the Capital Police!

Sparks

I forgot to add…Queer bait!

2/17 Air Cav

I see we are all taking this news quite well. Sparks mentioned Syrians. While Vlad’s boys are getting target practice and Assad is visiting his benefactors in Moscow, our Dept of State is busily trying to increase the number of Syrian “refugees” to the US. Anne Richard, assistant secretary of state for population, refugees and migration, told NPR a few weeks ago that “We can make a home for many, many [Syrian] refugees in the United States — I’m convinced of it.” So is her boss, John “Jungle Stroll w/ Cameraman” Kerry. He said, shortly thereafter, that the goal is 100,000 Syrians to the US. I may never make it to 2017 before I just have to shut down. I have little doubt that were it not for TAH, I would have done so all ready.

Pinto Nag

No sir, you do not get to bail out on us ahead of schedule. We need every single real American we still have more than ever, I don’t care in they’re on a ventilator. We love you. You stay here. That’s an order!

2/17 Air Cav

You found a way to shut me up, PN. (My saying that is like chumming shark but it’s true.)

Eden

You go, girl!

Pinto Nag

This is so very wrong. How can he do this? How could anyone do something like this?

Wrench Monkey

Pretty easy when you’ve sold your soul.

Pinto Nag

…if he even had one to begin with!

A Proud Infidel®™

Ditto that!! The ONLY THING that liberals like B. Hussein 0bama, Das Hildebeast and the like are ever concerned about is acquiring as much money and power as they can and keeping it.

Ex-PH2

Money becomes worthless when society goes to barter and away from cash.

MrFace

Defense Budget? Who the fuck needs that?

[/thisisgoddamnedridiculous]

Veritas Omnia Vincit

You really have to wonder about the priorities of this administration.

I’m with 2/17 AirCav on this in that no, no you don’t have to wonder. It’s been fairly obvious to astute observers for sometime this administration’s ability to focus on two things at once is severely limited by an overarching desire to create some sort of change in the nation regardless of whether or not anyone is actually asking for that change.

Hope and change my ass, this administration has been hopelessly challenged by every effort they’ve initiated even when they had a supermajority in the House and Senate.

A Proud Infidel®™

I’m very thoroughly convinced that B. Hussein 0bama and his minions are going on an all out hell-bent-for-leather effort to turn the United States of America into as big of a shitty third world wasteland as they can. They e been unable to start a civil war so now they’re importing as many uneducated third world muslims as they can hoping they’ll go apeshit before the next election!

Pinto Nag

They’ve built the biggest delayed detonation device in the world. Think about it. Long after they’re all out of office (and out of the way, because they have no intention of hanging around to enjoy the fruit of the evil seed they’ve planted) all of the debt, all of the ‘immigrants,’ all of the welfare cost, all of the decisions they’ve made for the last eight years, is going to come crashing down on us. Whether they meant to or not, Obama and company have handed this nation to our enemies of all stripes on a silver platter.

A Proud Infidel®™

Much like when the “Blowjob Willie” administration shackled and muzzled the FBI and CIA as well as hampering other things, and several months after he left office 9/11 happened.

Jon The Mechanic

I have the perfect place to put those detainees.

Bikini Atoll.

NavyEODguy

I agree. Well so long as we resume testing of the mushroom growers after they pile in.

A Proud Infidel®™

Hey uh, there’s still some “Hot” Real Estate out West they can be sent to, ain’t there? Out in the middle of nowhere well away from everyone and everything! 😀

B Woodman

Is Johnston Island done with destroying all those stockpiled chemical weapons? If so, send ’em there. Nothing else. Just them. Maybe a few goats to keep the men placated and the women relieved.

As the island becomes de-populated; lather, rinse, repeat.

B Woodman

I was also thinking the SoCal Mojave Desert, but, naaah, too many transportation routes run through there, too easy to escape and infect the rest of the country.

How about the Baja Peninsula? Easy enough to isolate across the top of the SoCal/Mexico border. Just nasty enough the muzzies would probably like it.

Casey

VodkaPundit Stephen Green had a good suggestion:

If Speaker Apparent Ryan wants to impress his doubters and twist the President’s tail, he could accomplish both with one bill. Provide for modest increases in the non-defense discretionary spending Obama is demanding, paid for entirely by zeroing out the President’s lavish Air Force One and travel budgets.

Zero. Them. Out.

His most recent post, btw, shows immigrant rioters in Slovenia taking selfies after burning a refugee camp to the ground.

Frickin’ unbelievable.

QM1

Personally, I would have also labeled this category under s@#tbags, but maybe that’s just me.