Republicans Warn Bush Budget Won't Cut Deficit | Reuters

[travisleit01]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush's plans to sharply limit some federal spending next year will barely dent the deficit but could mean painful cuts in programs ranging from veterans' health to medical research, Republican lawmakers who oversee the spending process warned on Thursday.

Bush will send his fiscal 2005 budget to Congress on Monday. In it, he will propose limiting the growth in federal discretionary spending outside of defense and homeland security to about 0.5 percent -- far less than the rate of inflation.

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Edit: Things must be getting bad when his own party is getting sick of him.

[displacedtexan]

1. Repuke Sharks Circling?

Is Bush* just a hunk of blood bait (metaphor-- not a personal insult, FBI snoopers)?
I hope so.

[travisleit01]

2. I'm reporting you!!

1-800-ASH-TIPS

[Jackpine Radical]

6. ROTFLMAO!

[Fargin Ice Hole]

7. Playing the fallguy comes with the job. n/t

[flaminbats]

3. military spending & Homeland Ridge increased more than the inflation rate.

how conservative! :wtf:

If a military larger than all of the others combined can't defend us, maybe one twice that size can eventually bankrupt us before another attack...

[fizzana]

4. There is only one thing that will reduce the deficit

It's the tax Elephant standing in the living room.

[llmart]

5. And Dean's promise

that he will roll back the tax cuts would help, but who wants to hear the truth?

[Zero Gravitas]

8. Over 500 Billion!

half a fricking trillion dollars!

Clinton had a surplus & The Republicans are the party of fiscal responsibility?

Surely people will now wake up to the fact that these clowns are out of control. Incompetent, irresponsible, reckless AND fascist.

[goforit]

9. DUH!!!!....And all those Repug's fingerprints are on it!!!

LOL!!!!!!

FIRE the bastards!!!!

[radfringe]

10. deficits aren't the only thing raising the hackles on GOPers

on the drive home from work - I radio-surf between NPR-Neal Bortz-and Limbaugh

it's been interesting to hear Bortz and Limbaugh try to slam the deficits without slamming bush* and GOPers -- but they do weakly attempt to blame this all on Clinton and/or liberal, Dems etc

One thing has been creeping up -- and that's the number of conservatives e-mailing/calling these two guys and saying they won't be voting for bush*

top FOUR reasons:

- deficits and the budget
- medicare costs higher than original projection
- alien worker visa program
- bush*'s recent announcement to increase funding to the national Endowment for the Arts


some of the callers don't go as far as saying they WON'T vote for bush* and prefer to say they are neutral or sitting on the fence

[george_w_snatch]

11. DICK cheney: "Deficits don't matter"