Senators Riding Raptors

Via BooMan, the Senate has successfully amended the Defense Bill for 2010 and stripped out the additional funding for F-22 Raptor jets that the Defense Department told Congress it didn't need or even want.

It should be pretty easy to identify the states that play a part in building the F-22's. There are no more offensive appropriations that those that are for weapons that we don't need. But when Barbara Boxer is willing to vote for wasteful Pentagon spending to protect jobs in her state, you know how corrupted the system is.

Naturally, both my Senators voted against it. But Mitch McConnell and Jim Bunning are just fiscally conservative kind of guys, ya know?

(P.S. The amendment doesn't actually strip the money out, it just re-appropriates it back to the Pentagon's operational and personnel budget section where it came from the first place. How messed up is that? Even when we're fighting the industrial military complex, we're not fighting it.)