Republicans promise limited government

[Xipe Totec]

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON – Emboldened by a commanding House majority and Senate gains, Republican leaders vowed Wednesday to roll back the size of government and, in time, the nation's sweeping health care law. President Barack Obama, reflective after his party's drubbing, accepted blame for failing to deliver the economic security Americans demand while saying of his health overhaul: "This was the right thing to do."

He called the election a "shellacking."

After two years with fellow Democrats leading Congress, Obama now must deal for the rest of his term with the jarring reality of Republican control of the House, a diminished Democratic majority in the Senate and a new flock of lawmakers sworn to downsize government at every chance.

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You want limited government?

How is this for a start:

SHUT THE FUCK UP!

[BeFree]

1. They are all going to resign?

Give up their pensions and SS?

Reduce the defense budget?

Sell off the highways?

Let BP run wild in the gulf again?

[Xipe Totec]

4. From your lips to God's ears... nt

[callous taoboy]

2. What, the bombings resume at midnight?

[tridim]

3. Republicans don't know how to do "limited government"

My proof? History.

It's their problem now.

[CubicleGuy]

46. They're pretty good at limited intelligence, though

Wait and see.

[Hawkeye-X]

5. You want limited government - Fine, start with the defense and CUT it to the bone

and start putting on education/jobs/infrastructure - that way, the government pays for everything that is needed domestically, and not internationally/globally.

Hawkeye-X

[Xipe Totec]

6. Yes, they hate Muslin so much, how come we're spending a ton of money on them? nt

[Owl]

35. Agreed! War, "Defense", and the MIC are bankrupting the USA.

[thecrow]

7. They can prove it with dropping the abortion issue and supporting gay rights

Limited government doesn't have to crawl into bed with us.

[Xipe Totec]

8. I want government out of the bedrooms and into the boardrooms! nt

[DBoon]

9. a government just big enough to protect them from their slaves

nt

[Xipe Totec]

12. Oh, I hope not. nt

[indimuse]

10. Good! STAY OUTTA MY CROTCH!!

!

[Xipe Totec]

11. +1!!!! nt

[Arkana]

20. This made me laugh perhaps more than it should have.

(Your comment, not the cartoon).

[martymar64]

42. I keep thinking that waiter should smash their heads with that bottle

[elleng]

13. Right, we'll limit it: NO SERVICES for ANY OF THEM, OR their friends/families.

[Xipe Totec]

14. You have a great point here

Who consumes the lion's share of government services?

Do we spend any money keeping hovels safe from theft? What is there to protect? What would be the point?

The money for police is spent safeguarding McMansions and real mansions. That's where the money is. That's where vandals would strike.

That's where the police are.

So, cut the services. Let's not pay for them.

Let's see who screams first.

[wisteria]

15. Limited government for Repubs mean, no services for those in need,

carte blanche to those with money and power who want to take advantage of the middle class and the poor, and plenty of money for their corporate friends.

[Xipe Totec]

16. Yes, but let's take them at their word.

No services. Period.

No police. No fire. No ambulances.

Let's see how they survive.

Us, we're already there. Let them enjoy the fruits of limited or no government.

[matt819]

17. Bullshit

It was under a Republican administration that the government grew astronomically - anyone hear of Homeland Security? And I recall seeing stats (yeah, lies, damn lies, statistics) showing that the federal government grows every time there's a republican administration. Hey, here's an idea for belt-tightening. Cut your fucking salaries and your staffs and refuse to take secret donations. Or this. Fly fucking coach, or take a bus. You fucking hypocrites.

[Xipe Totec]

18. Let me offer a counter argument...

Oh, wait! I cant!

:evilgrin:

[Arkana]

19. Yeah, we're gonna shrink gubmint!

We're gonna make it so small it fits in your bedroom--that way we can tell you who you can love, who you can have sex with, whether or not you can use birth control, and who you can marry!

[cyborg1966]

21. How do we resist?

How do we start a peaceful, ethical resistance to the corporato-fascism the Republicans clearly have in mind?

[mikepenn]

38. organize

organize and convince people to vote! I know people sat out this time around that were so hell bent on putting Obama in the White House in 2008.

[2Design]

22. get rid of tsa porn machines taking naked pictures or molestation/rape by tsa agents

just to fly as a passenger on a plane

[sofa king]

23. Limited competence is its own form of limited government.

But, as we have seen, it's very, very expensive.

[pokercat999]

24. You have GOT to learn to speak rethug. Ever since the

Ray-Gun we have been misunderstanding republi-speak and paying the price. Ray-Gun was talking to the rich and mega-rich. If you were one of those his policies and rhetoric made sense, if you were an average American....not so much, and if you thought he was talking to you disappointment was your reward.

Today when rethugs say "limited government" they don't mean SMALLER government, they mean government limited to THEIR and their corporate masters interests. Some of those are the theft of the total net worth of the middle class and poor by outsourcing their jobs and killing their small businesses with large corporation operations (walmart), the theft of the treasury through financial manipulation of banking and wall street and the increase of corporate profits through war profiteering and the elimination of regulation that would protect our environment and workers.

Understand this, they want LIMITED government not Smaller government.

[pasto76]

25. they want "limited" federal government, so backwater states can cram their shit down your throats

[fascisthunter]

26. yeah... more like a criminal enabling government

what a bunch of bullshit... do they ever say anything out of honesty besides their hatred for everyone else?

[KeyserSoze87]

27. Limited government my ass.

They won't limit government as a whole, they'll just limit it to people they agree with.

[Spiderzumbie]

28. I'm running bets

I put down a $1,000 dollars that nothing changes.

[AllyCat]

29. Limited in any scope that involves helping ordinary people.

Ginormous for everything else that helps Big Corporations and kills people and other living things.

[Iliyah]

What about the

jobs???? Limit the government, limit the jobs

[AllyCat]

36. Right. That is part of not helping the actual people.

[Iliyah]

30. What about the

jobs???? Limit the government, limit the jobs

[bulloney]

31. We heard the same thing when Ronnie Ray-gun was elected in 1980.

What did we get? A near tripling of the national debt and 30,000 additional federal jobs during his presidency.

We heard the same thing when Bush was selected President by the SCOTUS 20 years later. We ended up with the biggest clusterfuck of a government ever with things like illegal spying on citizens, Homeland Security and the like. In addition, Bush broke Reagan's records for deficit spending.

They cut government all right--if it benefited the little guy. But it was a unending hog trough for the wealthy and corporations to exploit.

So, I hope you don't mind if I sound a little skeptical over the latest Repubs' promises.

[Solly Mack]

32. Yeah, yeah. Some old bullshit code for cutting services to those in need

getting rid of what paltry regulations remain and attacking social security.

[bemildred]

33. Americans want good jobs, dimwit. nt

[alarimer]

34. Limited government except for fascist TSA goons and the military-industrial complex

Fucking hypocritical pieces of shit. God, I hate American voters.

[mikepenn]

37. Arrogant

I voted for no republicans yesterday, but I have to say... what an arrogant, uneducated and overly generalized statement. Do you live here?

[KansDem]

39. I think the poster was referring to the gross hypocrisy of both the GOP and American voters...

How GOPers will shill for "limited government" and that appeals to voters who want "limited government" only to vote for such GOPers, who turn around and increase government involvement/intrusion into:

Transportation (feeling up women and looking at nude scans)
Privacy (tapping emails and phone calls without court warrants)
Choice (denying women the right to choose)
Gay Marriage (denying gays the right to marry)
War (putting us into wars of aggression)

etc...

[L0oniX]

40. Limited government but UNLIMITED WAR. Cut taxes but not war funding.

"Small" corporation er uhm I mean "government" ...and "large" corporation er uhm I mean "military".

[martymar64]

41. Time for the Democrats to start a little obstructing - NO ON ALL REPUBLICAN BILLS AND INITIATIVES!

It's time to give them a taste of their own medicine. We need to personally harass them at every townhall meeting and vote NO as a bloc on every bill introduced or sponsored by a Republican.

[truthisfreedom]

43. They can start by halving their salaries.

And eliminating their benefits.

[devilgrrl]

44. Yeah.... that'll happen.

[Historic NY]

Under them Repukes government had it largest growth since WWII.

[Historic NY]

45. Under them Repukes government had it largest growth since WWII.

[sakabatou]

47. O RLY?

Didn't Bush say that too after he expanded the government the most?