Ladies and Gentlemen, Your 111th Congress Posted by Michael Cohen

In a vote that really should surprise no one who is regular observer of Congress and the defense appropriation process, the House Armed Services Committee passed a measure yesterday that would increase funding for the F-22 aircraft by taking money away from an environmental restoration program.
This comes several months after Secretary of Defense Gates rejected a significant increase in funding for the program - and it should be noted, the measure was passed with both GOP and Democratic votes.

But you really have to love this quote from Utah Congressman, Rob Bishop: 

"There is no study or analysis we have been able to see at the committee in support of Secretary Gates' assertion that 187 aircraft is sufficient to meet future air threats to our homeland a decade from now," said Bishop.

Well there is always the common sense analysis, but I suppose that is too much to ask for.

Putting aside the fact that no country has a fighter aircraft that can even compete with the F-22; and the US homeland has not been attacked by a military aircraft since Pearl Harbor and that it defies basic common sense to argue that any country would willingly engage on such a suicide mission; that 187 F-22s would probably go a long way toward protecting the US homeland and that the F-22 has never actually been flown in combat. . . well then I suppose Rob Bishop has a point.

I'd have a bit more respect for Cong. Bishop if he didn't waste everyone's time with some red herring argument about protecting the homeland and just made clear precisely why he thinks the US should build more F-22s.

It's public welfare for the state of Utah and of course Rob Bishop's political career.

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