Howard Dean Threatens To Leave Democratic Party If Obama Doesn’t Cut Pentagon Budget
Source: Mediaite
Former Vermont Governor, presidential candidate, and head of the Democratic National Committee, Howard Dean, threatened on Monday to abandon the party which he helped build in reaction to a story that suggested President Barack Obamas White House may be trying to shield the Pentagon from devastating budget cuts.
Bloomberg Businessweek columnist Joshua Green published a post last week in which he linked comments by administration officials who were critical of sequestration budget cuts to the lack of targeted defense cuts in Obamas proposed budget.
Although the White House doesnt advertise this fact in the six-page budget overview it put out this morning, the new budget eliminates nearly all of the cuts that sequestration imposes on the Pentagon, Green wrote. Instead of $500 billion in cuts, Obama proposes only $100 billion, and you have to look closely to spot it ($200 billion in additional discretionary savings, with equal amounts from defense and nondefense programs).
If this is true I may have to become an independent [sic], Dean tweeted in reaction to Greens story.
Read more: http://www.mediaite.com/online/howard-dean-i-will-become-an-independent-if-obama-doesnt-cut-pentagon-budget/
https://twitter.com/GovHowardDean/statuses/323602323425353728
derby378
(30,252 posts)...and the Air Force held a bake sale in order to raise money for another Stealth bomber.
Yeah, I know, it came off a bumper sticker, but someone needs to stand up. Even if we are headed into something nasty with North Korea, we can do it without the Pentagon getting another shipment of $700.00 toilet seats.
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)But the civilian cuts will be for real?
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,315 posts)don't mess with the war/money machine
MNBrewer
(8,462 posts)when the sequester was first brought up? Even before the failed super committee. Some on DU said, well, at least it's 50/50 defense/domestic.... and some of us said. They'll never let the defense cuts go through, but will be fine with the domestic cuts...
hmmm.
Bigmack
(8,020 posts)When President Eisenhower tried to warn us about the military industrial complex......AND when the feds created problems for social security by borrowing the then surpluses from THAT system to finance THEIR off the books wars and other similar shit.....and then REFUSING to raise taxes on the rich which MIGHT have enabled the gov't to pay back their "loans" from social security..... Ms Bigmack
olddad56
(5,732 posts)Vincardog
(20,234 posts)KG
(28,751 posts)..please.
rsmith6621
(6,942 posts)Foolish using the elderly as a Pawn in a game of CHICKEN....
I am disappointed in Obama and if true I may just join the Governor..
Our country's priority's are FUCKED...
My priority order...
1. Education,
2..Healthcare
3 The Elderly
4.Veterans
7 .. Defense...
24601
(3,955 posts)& contrast Bernie Sanders to Ralph Nader.
How does one want be remembered?
rsmith6621
(6,942 posts)......It is a separate fund.... It should never be used as a PAWN or a bluff card NEVER... Shame on Obama, he brought this on himself.
lob1
(3,820 posts)We should cut WAY back on the military.
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)hughee99
(16,113 posts)because you know the other thing isn't going to happen.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)It's unforgiveable to ever put guns BEFORE butter. And the damn Cold War is over.
Chalco
(1,307 posts)WRH2
(87 posts)add to this , the way eric holder is in bed with the banks and their criminal shenanigans. Liz Warren for President.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)brooklynite
(94,302 posts)Not willing to fight inside to build a Party that you like?
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)yurbud
(39,405 posts)on the bun at McDonald's.
think
(11,641 posts)DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)FreeBC
(403 posts)cascadiance
(19,537 posts)... after so many years being an independent. I'm wondering now with the Third way / DLC / corporatist CRAP in its cancerous stage in this party if I might have to do the same thing.
I'm trying to do the PCP thing now and want to work from within, but we need to make some BIG changes both locally and nationally to take back this party from the 1% infection!
MADem
(135,425 posts)There's a big difference between "threatens" as seen in the headline, and "will-become-an-independent" as seen in the link, and the far more mild "I may have to become..."
"I may" is not a threat, and it is certainly not "I will."
Meh. Dean is saying "Do better," not "I'm taking my ball and going home."
yurbud
(39,405 posts)DLCers use it?
They should be forced to come up with their own corporate welfare and Wall Street toadying party and see how many average people would vote for it.
Liberalynn
(7,549 posts)why should we have to give up our party to them.
Tom Rinaldo
(22,911 posts)but I intend to stay a registered Democrat so I can vote in primaries.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)think about it
PassingFair
(22,434 posts)And then Obama was presented as a progressive alternative to Hillary Clinton?
And then he won.
But he was never really a progressive alternative?
See, I've thought about it.
madokie
(51,076 posts)if you call that thinking that is