I think you are going a bit overboard with your synopsis of “do we rush a half-baked plane that DOD said doesn’t meet their demands to Chris so he can protect the West Coast or do we get it right the first time.”

Nothing else could be cut, the DOD had to give a reason for the cuts, to avoid having to cut other things, or answer why other things wouldn’t get cut, and the plane was the easiest target. As for half baked ideas…anything coming out of this new administration is half baked. Not only do they NOT put the time and effort into scaling down the expense of their ideas’, but they rush through to vote without even reading the bills. And the alarming amount of money they are spending, and amount of pork they are piling in, is not slowing or stopping.

The whole process smells of “we have our chance, lets pass anything and everything before we get canned. Who gives a damn about the American public, I gots mines!” Yeah, the slang, fad, uneducated lingo fits the puds on the hill now. It’s not ok for the pubs to spend-spend-spend, but it is ok if the libs do it? That sorry excuse doesn’t compute with a logical, thinking, educated, American citizen. Dems are losing ground all over, and Obama’s numbers are beginning to hit the downhill slope. I think that is proof enough that people weren’t expecting, and weren’t wanting, this type of “change” in our country.

BIG MISTAKE in my opinion. When you are at war you NEVER cut the defense budget. We aren’t the biggest military, but we are the best. Start taking away the growth needed to keep our people at the top of the heap, and you are opening doors that people shouldn’t open. Start cutting budgets and yelling it from the rooftops, and see what happens. People aren’t giving the bad guys of the world enough credit, and that could be a very large downhill slide for us in the near future.

I don’t want politicians hurrying up and voting in any dang thing. If the healthcare proposal they have in the works isn’t good enough for Congress, or Obama himself, I DON’T WANT IT! Why should the American people get sloppy seconds, half-a$$ed fixes, and partisan bs. The CBO already determined the nationalized healthcare plans to cost the American taxpayer more money, Americans are saying that they don’t want it. Politicians need to start listening instead of playing fast and loose with OUR money!

One of the issues they are tossing around for this healthcare bonanza is making people with pre-existing conditions, like diabetes, pay more to their healthcare premiums. If diabetes is a target, what else is. The government needs to slow the heck down, think, and take their time. PERIOD!

So – protection – positive – keep. (We are going to need it.)

Country destroying ObamaCare and Cap & Trade (Tax) benefit only a few of “The One’s” very good “buddies” and him of course. (Negative/harmful – get rid of. Or rather, don’t allow. {don’t have them yet – must stop the destruction before it has a chance to take hold.})

Positive – keep.
Negative – toss!