   Thursday, 19 January 2012 07:55 By Dina Rasor, Truthout |
Solutions   • Print   • Email  Every once in a while, the normal
assumptions and labeling of politicians gets shook up when one
of them steps out of their assigned box and suggests a
breakthrough from the politics as usual. Last week, Dick Armey
wrote an eye-opening editorial on Newsmax chiding the Obama
administration for not really cutting defense, but instead, just
planning to cut the increase.  Armey is a former Republican
member of Congress and now the chair of FreedomWorks, the
largest Tea Party "freedom" organization known for its
grassroots organizing of the right. Armey correctly pointed out
that Obama is slowing the increase in Department of Defense
(DoD) spending, even though his Republican counterparts,
including Bill Kristol, are claiming that Obama is severely
cutting defense and decimating the DoD and US military
readiness. He goes even farther than generally chiding his
Republican members of Congress and questions their motivations f