It started with his support of the anti-police "black lives matter" movement that seeks to murder policemen. Now, he refuses to sign the budget for our Defense Department without political gimmicks.
"President Obama made good on his threat to veto
a $612 billion defense policy bill Thursday, bringing the fight over domestic
spending into the realm of national security. Speaking to reporters for four
minutes in a rare public veto message, Obama
said the bill fell "woefully short" because it kept across-the-board
budget cuts in place, blocked needed military reforms and prohibited him from
closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. With a pen stroke of his left
hand, he sent the bill back to Congress, saying, "My message to them is
simple. Let's do this right." The veto of the National Defense
Authorization Act was an extraordinary use of one of the president's most
powerful executive tools. While the White House had problems with some of the
bill's provisions, Obama's main objection is that the bill anticipates
off-budget spending to increase the defense budget without increasing domestic
spending first. The president wants Congress to lift the automatic budget caps
included in a 2011 budget agreement. That, congressional Republicans said, is
an unprecedented and irresponsible use of the veto power.
The White
House says it objects to the manner in which the additional dollars were
appropriated, and is frustrated with Congress' continued bipartisan refusal to
go along with Obama's unpopular plan to empty the Guantanamo Bay terrorist
detention facility. But at the heart of this move is an attempt to strong arm the
Republican-held Congress into trading an increased defense budget for more
domestic spending. Adopting the
White House's colorful parlance, Obama
is holding funding for our troops hostage to unrelated political objectives. The president adamantly opposes similar
tactics as it relates to the GOP's desire to defund Obamacare, Planned
Parenthood or his illegal executive amnesty program -- but they're entirely
reasonable and fair when deployed on behalf of his agenda. Outgoing House Speaker John Boehner unloads:
“By placing domestic politics ahead of our
troops, President Obama has put America’s national security at risk. This
indefensible veto blocks pay and vital tools for our troops while Iranian
terrorists prepare to gain billions under the president’s nuclear deal.
Congress should not allow this veto to stand.”
Since
Boehner raised Iran in his curt statement, it's probably worth mentioning that
Congressional Democrats threw a party to celebrate the implementation of
Obama's widely-opposed nuclear deal this week.
They toasted to an agreement that shovels more than $100 billion into the
terrorist-backing regime's coffers, legitimizes Iran's rogue nuclear program,
and guarantees Iran's place as a threshold nuclear power as soon as the
accord's restrictions begin to automatically expire after one decade. Pelosi and friends were evidently unperturbed
by, or unaware of, the facts that (a) Iran ostentatiously resisted complying
with international investigators' probe into the past military dimensions of
its illegal nuclear program, and (b) the regime just test fired an advanced
ballistic missile, in violation of international law and the just-inked
deal. In response, the Obama
administration has valiantly pledged to 'raise the issue' at the United
Nations. Good work, everyone. Clink. And with that as a backdrop, Obama has now rejected a consensus defense
spending bill for his own ideological purposes -- and as with the Iran
issue, Hill Democrats are planning to dutifully sustain his veto, promising to
reverse their own votes if necessary.
I'll leave you with this from our Commander-in-Chief, with no further
commentary necessary."
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