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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (32760)	7/2/2010 7:44:54 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

Tea Party embraces neo-conservatism Fri, 07/02/2010 - 2:07pm posted by Jason Pye United Liberty --- Free Market, Individual Liberty, Limited Government unitedliberty.org Will the tea party movement get behind defense spending cuts? It won’t if Sarah Palin has her way ( thecable.foreignpolicy.com ): Sarah Palin is waging a battle inside the Tea Party movement to exempt defense spending from the group’s small-government, anti-deficit fervor. There’s growing concern among Republicans — and especially among the pro-defense neoconservative wing of the party — that national-security spending, which is under a level of scrutiny and pressure not seen since the end of the Cold War, could fall victim to the anti-establishment, anti-spending agenda of the Tea Party movement. Palin, as the unofficial leader of that movement and its most prominent celebrity, is moving to carve out such funding from any drives to cut overall government expenditures. There’s a sense among GOP insiders that she is not only the perfect figure to make the case, but she’s also the only one who can pull it off. […] Palin’s drive to lead the charge against defense cuts on the right was on display in a June 27 speech at “Freedom Fest,” a conservative gathering in Norfolk, VA, where she sent a clear message to Republicans that deficit reduction can’t come at the expense of the military. “Something has to be done urgently to stop the out of control Obama-Reid-Pelosi spending machine, and no government agency should be immune from budget scrutiny,” she said. “We must make sure, however, that we do nothing to undermine the effectiveness of our military. If we lose wars, if we lose the ability to deter adversaries, if we lose the ability to provide security for ourselves and for our allies, we risk losing all that makes America great! That is a price we cannot afford to pay.” So the doctrine of perpetual war is now a part of the tea party movement? That’s unfortunate. The defense budget is bottomless pit for waste and inefficiency and our foreign policy is breaking us. It should be up for cuts as much as any other discretionary spending. We cannot afford to keep intervening in the affairs of other nations and expect to prosper. At this point, it is not possible to tell the deference between the tea partyers and the neo-conservatives that increased the size of government dramatically during the Bush Administration.