Romney's terrible choice
WASHINGTON -- There have been many mendacious moments in this presidential campaign, but it will be hard to top what Mitt Romney told the Veterans of Foreign Wars conference the other day.
President Obama is seeking an arbitrary, across-the-board budget reduction that would saddle the military with $1 trillion in cuts, the Republican said. Strategy is not driving the presidents massive defense cuts. In fact, his own secretary of defense warned that these reductions would be devastating, and hes right.
This is no time for the presidents radical cuts in our military.
Come again?
Romney is referring to the automatic spending cuts, or sequestration, required by the Budget Control Act of 2011. For those suffering memory loss of the sort afflicting Romney, that legislation came about when Republicans threatened to throw the country into default unless Democrats agreed to automatic budget cuts if a supercommittee couldnt reach a bipartisan agreement (which it couldnt, naturally).
If the defense cuts are Obamas, they are also John Boehners, Eric Cantors, Mitch McConnells and Jon Kyls. The bill passed with the votes of a majority of House and Senate Republicans and the encouragement of -- wait for it -- Mitt Romney. A Romney spokeswoman at the time said he applauded Boehners negotiating prowess.
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