{"id":378299,"date":"2018-09-23T16:19:05","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T15:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-chickenhawks-have-finally-come-back-home-to-roost\/"},"modified":"2018-09-23T16:19:05","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T15:19:05","slug":"the-chickenhawks-have-finally-come-back-home-to-roost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-chickenhawks-have-finally-come-back-home-to-roost\/","title":{"rendered":"the Chickenhawks Have Finally Come Back Home to Roost!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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+ The transformation of the Democrats into the party of the neocons is now complete. The Senate just passed a \u00a0$674 billion military budget, the largest since the peak of Iraq War and a $17 billion increase from last year. There were only seven \u201cNo\u201d votes, none of them Democrats: Rand Paul, Pat Toomey, Ben Sasse, Mike Lee, Jeff Flake, David Perdue and Bernie Sanders.<\/p>\n

+ The original political neocon was Sen. Henry \u201cScoop\u201d Jackson, the Democrat from Boeing, before they all fled into the lethal embrace of Reagan.<\/p>\n

+ Now the chickenhawks have finally come back home to roost!<\/p>\n

+ Trump at the press briefing with Polish president\u00a0Andrzej Duda: \u201cCosts, yes, costs. Something you didn\u2019t hear anything about over the last 25 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump, 20 seconds later: \u201cWe just got the biggest military budget in history, $670 billion. People have never seen anything like it.\u201d<\/p>\n

+ No wonder more and more \u201cpeople\u201d are saying:\u00a0Take your two parties and shove them\u2026<\/p>\n

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+ \u00a0As Trump began his tour of Florence\u2019s path of destruction across the Carolinas, he asked a North Carolina official how Lake Norman was doing.\u00a0\u201cI love that area. I can\u2019t tell you why. But I love that area.\u201d Really\u2026?<\/p>\n

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+ In the Carolinas, it\u2019s the poor<\/a> who are being hit the hardest by Hurricane Florence, which comes as no surprise to any of us who have read Mike Davis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

+\u00a0Too bad about your home, but at least you got a nice yacht out of it\u2026<\/p>\n

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+\u00a0It\u2019s hard to take the media handwringing over…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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+ The transformation of the Democrats into the party of the neocons is now complete. The Senate just passed a \u00a0$674 billion military budget, the largest since the peak of Iraq War and a $17 billion increase from last year. There were only seven \u201cNo\u201d votes, none of them Democrats: Rand Paul, Pat Toomey, Ben […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-378299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}