New GOP budget will be a national security disaster and political nightmare

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Washington Examiner:

This week on my radio show Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said of the looming deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran that, "I believe we are at a moment like Munich in 1938."

 

Many agree with Cruz. Many scoff. But among those who agree in the Congress there is coming a moment of testing of their sincerity.

 

Conservatives tend to forget that Neville Chamberlain was a conservative, and that he and his predecessor as Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, also a Tory, had presided over what what turned out to be a near fatal hollowing out of Great Britain's military in the '30s. Congressional conservatives and Republicans generally love to quote Churchill, but they ought to do more than quote him, they ought to read his speeches from the '30s in which he lambasted the Front Bench in Parliament for neglecting all branches of the military.

 

Next week the GOP will introduce its first budget since taking control of the Senate as well as the House. Early indications are that it will bitterly disappoint the voters that rallied this past fall to send serious, national security-credentialed people to the Hill such as new Sens. Tom Cotton, Joni Ernst and Dan Sullivan. Almost every Republican ran on rebuilding a Pentagon ravaged by "sequestration." No one campaigned on "keeping the cap" on the Department of Defense.