Michael Goldfarb is Well Informed
Noting that the Progressive Policy Institute is holding a panel on the defense budget with Rep. John Spratt (D-N.C. S.C.), the chairman of the House Budget
Jul 31, 2020276.8K Shares6.2M Views
Noting that the Progressive Policy Institute is holding a panel on the defense budget with Rep. John Spratt (D- S.C.), the chairman of the House Budget Committee, former McCain campaign mouthpiece Michael Goldfarb of the Weekly Standard remarks, “Translation: Only defense has to worry about spending discipline,” under the headline “Progressives for Spending Discipline.”
Counting Spratt — whom The Washington Times callsHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “centrist counterweight” — and the think tank of the Democratic Leadership Councilas “progressives” is like discovering a hotbed of conservativism at an Arlen Specter speech to the Concord Coalition, but I digress.
Goldfarb’s bit of ideological invective would have more bite if some longtime Republican senator hadn’t introduced a bill today designed to rein in weapons procurement costs.Or if certain Bush administration-holdover defense secretaries didn’t publicly recognizethat “
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