re: #104 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

If he had chosen to suspend the littoral ship program instead, that’d be what people were freaking out about. The sequester means less money. That means doing fewer things. If the GOP wants to solve that, they can agree to the totally reasonable proposal of having a 2:1 ratio of spending cuts to tax increases.

My point was more that I expect that the decision to cancel the Truman deployment was a bottom-up decision within the Pentagon’s logistics and operations staff analyzing the use of the budgets and making recommendations up the chain of command; e.g. doing their job. And that recommendation came up the chain up to whoever normally gets the responsibility to make the decision.

I expect that Obama (or SecDef, etc.) could complain about that and try to get it overridden - but that also at that point assumes that Obama et. al. will micromanage in order to make political points in this case. Which also serves as tossing some fresh meat to the “Obama is trying to stop up from defending Israel crowd”.