My problem isn’t the fact there are deep cuts to national defense. Cuts as part of some massive reform package would be acceptable. No, my problem is that there are deep cuts to national defense while we fail to reform programs like Medicaid and Social Security.

National defense is a constitutional responsibility. Entitlement programs are not. And yet we gut national defense in order to defend entitlement programs. And even though entitlement programs are the single biggest contributor to the national deficit.

But wait, it gets crappier! Because if we don’t agree to tax hikes before the end of the year (through the super-committee), even more will be cut from national defense. Somewhere in the area of an additional $700 billion. At which point our military will be unable to effectively defend the country.

But hey, at least we’ll have left unconstitutional welfare programs alone, right?

What kind of deal is this, Mr. Speaker? We agree to massive defense cuts, then we have to agree to tax hikes otherwise we watch even more defense cuts go into effect automatically? A chimp could have negotiated a better deal.

Defense cuts followed by tax hikes or even more defense cuts. That’s supposed to be a Republican victory? Or even a compromise? That’s surrender. That’s admitting that defense spending is the problem, even though basic mathematics demonstrate that’s not the case. It’s handing Democrats a victory. Good job.