Circle the wagons

Washington Conservatives Worried About Movement Conservatives on Defense - Marc Ambinder - Politics - The Atlantic:

Although the op-ed, written by FPI's Bill Kristol, AEI's Arthur C. Brooks and Heritage's Edward Fuelner, sets up the Obama administration as its foil, the real purpose to nudge Tea Party conservatives back into line on defense spending, according to a Republican strategist who is working on the program.

Bill Kristol, Arthur C. Brooks and Ed Fuelner getting together to protect the military-industrial complex, why am I not surprised?

For the record, I don't disagree with many of the people calling for a reduction in defense spending. These fine gentleman from the hallowed halls of Washington's finest "Conservative" think tanks will tell you that defense spending is not the cause of soaring deficits, and they may not be the only cause, but their a part of the problem.

We have to accept, as a nation, that in order to get out of the whole we're in, we can't make anything off limits. The defense budget has to be scanned for waste, if cuts need to be made, then they need to be made.

Oh, and I'll definitely be looking for an abrupt change in direction from these "principled" Tea Party backed candidates, as they fall in line with what the GOP in Washington wants from them