Top Republicans rip into Obama U.S. budget proposal

[seafan]

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama's proposed $3.55 trillion federal budget drew swift words of anger and concern on Thursday from top Republicans in Congress, presaging major political fights over spending.

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"I have serious concerns with this budget, which demands hardworking American families and job creators turn over more of their hard-earned money to the government to pay for unprecedented spending increases," Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said in a statement.

"The American people deserve a budget that puts fiscal discipline and jobs first. The budget offered by the Obama Administration fails on both counts," said Representative Mike Pence, a member of the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives.
"The American people know we cannot tax, spend and borrow our way back to a healthy economy," Pence said in a statement, adding that Obama had presented a "prescription for economic decline."

Republicans have long touted themselves as champions of limited government, but surrendered that claim in approving a series of big-deficit budgets during the administration of Obama's predecessor, Republican George W. Bush.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN2619471720090226

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Bring it.

[Hope And Change]

1. The Republican Party=The Party Of No?

[movonne]

16. Gee! that's a surprise....

[BeyondGeography]

2. Lies, and the lying liars who tell them

Obama will have to get back on the road and say what he has always said: 95% of the country gets a tax break, the top 2% pay what they did under Clinton, the rest stay as is. And the media will have no choice but to report it...

[county worker]

3. Hey Mitch, hard working Americans will get a tax cut come April.

The investor class will have to wait a minute longer to get that next level of wealth.

[TheCoxwain]

4. Hey Republicans .. i have some news for you ..

Go FUCK YOURSELVES ... You miserable pieces of dick shit

[scytherius]

5. And the sun is shining. Any more news MSM? n/t

nt

[KansDem]

6. F*ck you, Repubs! We tried it *your way*--It didn't work!

Now go crawl back under your rocks...

[whosinpower]

10. I have to agree and this must be said

Over and over and over again. The republicans HAD their way. That ideology was tried - and it turned out to be a failure - on pretty much every count.
Foreign policy - terrorism and extremism is up worldwide.
Domestic policy - the US is insolvent.
Globalization - worldwide recession and nations forced into insolvency - Iceland and others poised to fall.
Deregulation - allowed widespread and institutional fraud.

Rub their faces in the mess that Obama INHERITED. Over and over again - every time they critisize his efforts at growing the middle class of America.

[seafan]

7. Meanwhile, Bill Kristol in the WaPo implores Republicans to obstruct and delay Obama's progress.

Kristol whines in the Washington Post today:

Obama intends to use his big three issues -- energy, health care and education -- to transform the role of the federal government as fundamentally as did the New Deal and the Great Society.

Conservatives and Republicans will disapprove of this effort. They will oppose it. Can they do so effectively?

Perhaps -- if they can find reasons to obstruct and delay. They should do their best not to permit Obama to rush his agenda through this year. They can't allow Obama to make of 2009 what Franklin Roosevelt made of 1933 or Johnson of 1965. Slow down the policy train. Insist on a real and lengthy debate. Conservatives can't win politically right now. But they can raise doubts, they can point out other issues that we can't ignore (especially in national security and foreign policy), they can pick other fights -- and they can try in any way possible to break Obama's momentum. Only if this happens will conservatives be able to get a hearing for their (compelling, in my view) arguments against big-government, liberal-nanny-state social engineering -- and for their preferred alternatives.

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And, Kristol whistles past the graveyard with aid of an oxygen tank:

Right now, Obama is in the driver's seat -- a newly elected and popular president with comfortable Democratic congressional majorities and an adulatory mainstream news media. Still, Republicans do have advantages over their forebears in 1965 and 1933. There are more Republicans in Congress today, so they should be able to resist more effectively. There is much more of a record of liberal failures to look back on now than when the New Deal and the Great Society were being rushed through. Conservatism is more sophisticated than it was back then. So there is no reason to despair.

It's over, Mr. Kristol.

The more than half a century's ride of the Republican Party's greed, destruction, dirty wars, corporate thievery, deregulation, propagandistic control of media and decades of lying to Americans, is over.

It's time for you and the smoldering remnants of your party to go.

[Enthusiast]

9. I disagree that it is over

They still control the media. And powerful interests are aligned against significant change. These people have long been rewarded and they have no intentions of giving up their spoils. For every word Obama utters there are four TV mouths criticizing him.

[scytherius]

11. Which is why we must be numerous and LOUD. n/tn

nt

[thereismore]

8. Top republicans = top rats on the sewer floor. nt

[stillcool]

12. I so hope the Republicans will...

finally understand the trickle down effect. Piss on them all.

[truebrit71]

13. Now McConell wants 'fiscal discipline'? NOW? What about the last eight years?

Go Cheney yourself..

[DebbieCDC]

14. Why is ANYONE still giving Kristol a "platform" to spout his bile?

I am so sick of their mock "outrage" I could :puke:

Go back to your think tank and pull that bottle of scotch out of the bottom drawer.

[LynnTheDem]

15. Where were the "top republicans" and their "serious concern" when they were blowing

trillions under their George W. bUsh regime???