It seems like a pattern. I expected this to be the case behind the VA scandal as well: in their desire to cut spending, the Republicans slash these budgets, but when it hits the fan (if it's under a Democratic White House), they go all self-righteous.
Yes, but on this particular kind of play, I'm surprised that the Democrats don't hit back harder and immediately: "You deny us the resources, favoring tax cuts for the rich - we cannot make a feast of two fishes and two loaves."
But... I just read a few days ago how Obama's "superior campaigning" won him election twice despite 'Merica being more conservative. Surely we liberals can't just be geniuses at tricking people into voting for Presidents and terrible at the rest of the propaganda game.
In case somebody cares to know the details: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/barbara-boxers-claim-that-gop-budgets-hampered-benghazi-security/2013/05/15/d1e295cc-bdb0-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html
The teenager drinks too much, so the father cuts his allowance. The teenager still buys the booze, but has no money to buy food. So he claims that his father is trying to starve him to death. The claim is: 1. True 2. False
Typical silly analogy ... if you have a problem with the teenager drinking you deal with that ... not by doing something entirely different. But of course for pols who think everything is about money they think cutting budgets will create real world solutions when all it does is cut budgets to a lot of things we would like to have. Like embassy security.
How about the pols who thinks that all the problems can be solved by throwing more money on them? Aren't they the ones who thinks that everything about money?
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Shocked! Shocked I say!
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http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n08/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/barbara-boxers-claim-that-gop-budgets-hampered-benghazi-security/2013/05/15/d1e295cc-bdb0-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html
The teenager drinks too much, so the father cuts his allowance. The teenager still buys the booze, but has no money to buy food. So he claims that his father is trying to starve him to death. The claim is:
1. True
2. False
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