Be Fruitful and Wankify

If there's one thing you can say about today's conservatives they've brought back the evils of heredity without the messy hemophilia. Nobody has demonstrated this Peterless Genetic Principle more than various and sundry members of the Kagan family.

Today in the Washington Post, Robert Kagan, who makes working for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace an "oxymor(a)n", blathers about how spending money on the Defense Department is the ultimate stimulus -- and not just in his pants.

Pentagon officials have leaked word that the Office of Management and Budget has ordered a 10 percent cut in defense spending for the coming fiscal year

Not only is this assertion unsourced, it is also completely false -- so it must be a day ending in "y":

The Obama administration is reportedly capping the Pentagon’s 2010 budget for non-war spending at $527 billion, a level previously recommended by Bush administration officials. Despite the fact that this will represent an 8 percent increase over 2009 funding levels, conservative commentators are painting the cap as a budget cut.

For those of us in this world where being wrong actually means something -- a spending increase that runs well ahead of inflation is not a "cut", let alone a ten percent cut figure you pulled out of a region just north of your taint.

But that's close enough when you belong to our nation's First Family of War Whores.

(pic from bethpalmer238)

[cross-posted at Firedoglake]