Matt Taibbi talks about pork and payoffs that get added to the Defense Bill each year, usually at the expense of things like pay for our soldiers or body armor for our soldiers. Our soldiers are sacred in a curious way. You're not allowed to speak ill of them or to suggest that their leaders have sent them off on the wrong mission. But when someone cuts their benefits or deprives them of equipment that might save their lives, no one on the right or the left has much of a problem with that.