Hugh Hewitt: Rescuing Defense from the fiscal hostage crisis

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Concern for national security has defined the GOP since Ike, but that priority has been missing from the “fiscal cliff” negotiations.

The House Republicans could easily pass and send to the Senate a bill exempting the Department of Defense from the sequester and thus removing our soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines from the impact of the looming across-the-board cuts.

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