As long as Graham leads the charge.
Sequestration did not cut the US budget at all. It merely cut back on planned increases in the budget in the future. If Congress and the President had simply agreed on a spending freeze, that would have been a much more significant step to begin to restore faith in US financial governance and the economy.
But even though the sequester “cuts” are so insignificant, they are still painful to people who believe in, sell, and depend upon “omnipotent government.” In the Republican Party there are those who want no practical limits on future increases on military spending. As Patrick Buchanan pointed out recently, Lindsey Graham is promising a war on Iran, and is ready to make sure the President has the power to wage it without needing to go to Congress to approve it.
“On Fox’s ‘Huckabee’ Sunday, Lindsey laid
out his scheme: ‘I’m going to get a bipartisan coalition together.
We’re going to put together a use-of-force resolution, allowing our
country to use military force … to stop the Iranian nuclear program. …
I’m going to need your help, Mike, and the help of Americans and friends
of Israel.’ … On Nov. 10, 2010, Graham let it all out: ‘Instead of a
surgical strike on their nuclear infrastructure, I think we’re to the
point now that you have to really neuter the regime’s ability to wage
war against us and our allies. … [We must] destroy the ability of the
regime to strike back.’ Graham wants us to do to Iran what President
Bush II did to Iraq.”
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