F-35 News. The plane is raping the USAF too.

I thought the F-35 was putting the aerodynamic weeny only to the USMC, US Army and our allies.  I didn't think it was doing the same to the USAF.  I was wrong.  Check this out via DoD Buzz...

“For the Air Force … it’s a sequestration-driven decision,” Welsh said, referring to automatic, across-the-board budget cuts Congress and the White House agreed to in 2011 as part of deficit-reduction legislation. The cuts are slated to return with greater effect in fiscal 2016 unless lawmakers agree on an alternative plan.
“We don’t have enough money to fund all the things that we currently have in our force structure,” Welsh said.

And then this...

“And we are then going to have some kind of nebulous idea of a replacement with an airplane that costs at least 10 times as much — and the cost is still growing — with the F-35?” McCain said

Just wow.  The most hawkish Republican says this about the most expensive project going and many believe that the project is here to stay?  To that I say bullshit.  This plane is inching its way toward the chopping block and I couldn't be happier.