Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta testifies on the Defense Department's budget proposal before the Senate Armed Services Committee as Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, looks on in Washington, D.C., Feb. 14, 2012. DOD photo by Erin A. Kirk-CuomoRepublicans Turn Defense Cuts On Obama -- Politico
The biggest political threat that President Barack Obama could face in military towns like Norfolk and Fayetteville and Tampa isn’t criticism that he’s pulling out of Afghanistan or Iraq too early.
It’s his refusal, so far, to roll back automatic cuts to the Pentagon that could damage local economies already bracing for a drawdown in defense funding.
Republicans are using almost $1 trillion in potential defense cuts as a wedge issue with a jobs twist, aiming to weaken Obama where it could hurt him most: in a handful of top-tier battleground states such as Virginia, Colorado, Florida and North Carolina.
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My Comment: President Obama and his team are aware that these cuts will only occur after the 2012 Presidential election .... with it's impact only occurring in 2013 and beyond .... hence insulating President Obama from it's economic impacts (so they hope). The big losers in these cuts will be Democrat Senators and Congressmen/women running in 2014 .... that's when the cuts will start to bite.
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there seems a notion that our military should be all over the world, s[end zillions, and be immune from all the cuts that are required to do something about a deficit that is wrecking our nation.
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