“The military budget is not on the table. The military is at the table, and it is eating everybody else’s lunch,” said Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., commenting on the House passage of the $649 billion FY2012 Defense Appropriations Bill. I don’t think that I am eating your lunch. Now Barney has been a longtime critic of military spending. He has always tried to force the choice of butter over guns. I’ve observed him for years. I was a student of his. Now he might be getting more traction
