Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Yglesias Calling

Sullly rails against this Cheney moment on Hannity last night re: cutbacks in the military:

He would much rather spend the money on food stamps than he would on a strong military or support for our troops.
By writing:

So a former vice-president is out there, saying the president prefers to spend money on food stamps than on “support for our troops.”

Of course such a notion is completely absurd, it’s just right-wing batshittery. But when you remove yourself from jingo-ism or “of COURSE we need more troops!”, is a president in fact doing such a thing that crazy? After all, it’s not like we’re still not going to be the biggest army in the world, and what’s more likely to actually happen: a large terrorist attack, or people needing food to eat?

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