The Hill reports that House Minority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) invoked the memory of 9/11 victims to argue against military spending cuts: “We honor those who fell 11 years ago today. We honor those who fought to try to save some of those who died,” Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said in a press conference following a closed-door conference meeting.
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Category: author, Economy, Feeds, Foreign Policy, Health, Justice, LGBT, Media, Pentagon, Science, ThinkProgress, Tweets, War | Comments OffVice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan has gotten in hot water before for criticizing President Obama for the very same defense cuts that he voted for in 2011. When confronted with this incongruity today on Face The Nation, Ryan simply denied that he ever voted for the cuts, telling an incredulous Norah O’Donnell that he didn’t actually vote for the cuts he’s on record as voting for: O’DONNELL: Now you’re criticizing the President for those same defense cuts you’re voting for and called a victory.
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Category: author, Economy, Feeds, Health, Justice, LGBT, Media, Politics, Science, The Nation, ThinkProgress, Tweets, War, Washington | Comments OffRomney giving his speech to the Republican National Convention In an interview with Fox News this afternoon, Mitt Romney shot back at critics who complained that he didn’t mention Afghanistan or praise U.S. troops in his convention speech last week, arguing that he focused on issues that are “important.” Fox News’s Brett Baier told Romney that “several speakers” at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte this week criticized the GOP presidential nominee for the omissions (actually it was right-wing foreign policy leader Bill Kristol who started the attacks ) and asked him if he had any regrets.
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Category: Afghanistan, author, Economy, Feeds, Foreign Policy, Health, Iraq, Justice, LGBT, Media, politico, Politics, Science, ThinkProgress, Tweets, United Nations, War, Washington | Comments OffGrover Norquist Conservative tax and spend guru Grover Norquist threw cold water on the popular claim made by those trying to preserve the Pentagon’s bloated budget that cutting military spending is a big job killer. In advancing apocalyptic warnings about the looming military spending sequestration, Republicans — led by House Armed Services Committee chairman and leading recipient of defense industry contributions Rep. Buck McKeon (R-CA) — have abandoned their “government spending doesn’t create jobs” mantra, saying that the Pentagon cuts will ruin the economy.
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Category: author, Congress, Economy, Feeds, Health, Justice, LGBT, Media, Pentagon, Terrorism, ThinkProgress, Tweets, War | Comments OffGREAT FALLS, Montana — Government spending plays a key role in creating jobs and helping the economy. If that sentence sounds uncontroversial, it should. And yet, the GOP has argued since the day Barack Obama took office that government spending neither creates jobs nor helps the economy.
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Category: Arizona, author, Barack Obama, Deficit, director, Economy, Feeds, Health, Justice, LGBT, Media, Politics, Social Security, Taxes, The Nation, ThinkProgress, Tweets, Video, War | Comments OffSens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) Late last month, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) joined with his pals Sen
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Category: author, CNN, Congress, Economy, Feeds, Health, Islamophobia, Justice, LGBT, Media, Politics, ThinkProgress, Tweets, War, Washington | Comments OffRep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD) (Photo: Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) Republican member of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) Roscoe Bartlett (MD), in an interview with Politico , called the hyperventilating about the alleged dangers of the looming military spending sequester “a hysteria parade”: “The average American out there, by big percentages, wants to cut defense by twice the sequester amount,” he said, citing recent polls. “ We need to stop with all the superlatives about the thing and be rational about it and involve the American people on it ,” Bartlett said
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Category: al-Qaeda, author, CNN, Congress, Economy, Feeds, Health, Justice, LGBT, Media, Pentagon, politico, The Nation, ThinkProgress, Tweets, War | Comments OffIn a report released today as part of the Center for American Progress Action Fund’s “ Romney U ,” CAP’s Lawrence Korb looked at the presumptive GOP presidential nominee’s defense and military spending numbers and found that they “ don’t add up .” Romney’s plan would mean at least $2 trillion in increased spending over the next decade and as of yet, his campaign can’t explain how he plans to pay for it. Korb’s report charts the numbers: Romney “ promotes this approach while simultaneously promising to cut taxes and balance the budget, which is pure intellectual dishonesty,” Korb writes. “By exploding the deficit or gutting domestic programs, Gov.
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