Fighting Over the Freeze
John McCain has made a pledge to freeze non-defense, non-veterans discretionary spending for a year a centerpiece of his government reform platform. Now Barack Obama is trying to use that pledge against him.
National Journal's Ad Spotlight notes that Obama is running radio ads in Florida saying the proposal would stall NASA spending -- a sore subject in the Sunshine State.
Here's Ad Spotlight's description of the ad -- and McCain's response:
McCain "wants to freeze NASA spending at last year's level," says Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., in the ad. "So layoffs would loom larger, and NASA would continue to be starved of funds for future exploration."For his part, McCain visited the state Friday and promised $2 billion in additional funding for the space agency, arguing that Obama is the one who would cut NASA's budget. The Democrat once proposed delaying the Constellation program, which would return humans to the moon, to pay for his education plan.
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A "Transformational Leader" who lies about his opponent's plans. That is the change we need! The One won't curb federal spending except defense spending where he pledges deep cuts.
But, what I'm really looking forward to is a return of the Diversity Police to the Federal government. They were pretty tough in the early Clinon administration, buty you ain't seen nothing yet with the most left leaning president in US history on his way!
Woody Pfister Posted Wednesday, October 22, 2008 9:06 AMJohn McCain did publicly acknowledge that would freeze spending as described above. So, either he is doing so without realizing the consequences or he may need to acknowledge that Obama was correct in stating that he was using a hatchet where a scalpel was needed.
US Posted Wednesday, October 22, 2008 11:19 AMA scalpel??? We need a chain saw taken all federal programs. A minimum 10% cut is in order starting with pay
dan ketter Posted Wednesday, October 22, 2008 12:04 PM