…One giant leap in the Military-Industrial Complex’s animosity towards Obama.
But as the president signed a $680 billion military policy bill on Wednesday, it was clear that he had succeeded in paring back nearly all of the programs and setting a tone of greater restraint than the Pentagon had seen in many years. … Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff, said Wednesday that the plan was to threaten a veto over a prominent program — in this case, the F-22 fighter jet — “to show we were willing to expend political capital and could win on something that people thought we could not.”
The rampant use of sentence-initial conjunction like “but” and “still” in The New York Times article is breathtaking, but when you’re talking the cozy relationship between weapons suppliers and Congress, it’s wholly appropriate.
