Don’t Look at Pentagon Budget to Cut Back on Federal Spending

James Carafano / November 24, 2010

Hope is not a strategy. Last month’s elections made that clear.

Through the year, polls consistently revealed the unpopularity of Obamacare, deep concern about excessive spending, and misgivings about how the things are going in Iran and Afghanistan. Yet all the way up to the elections, progressives hoped that Americans would somehow like Obamacare, think the stimulus was working, and feel we were winning against our worldwide adversaries.

Nov. 2 dashed those hopes. But progressives have a new hope now, bigger than ever and just as divorced from reality as was the old. (more…)