GOP Leaders Outline Strategy for Opposing Obama’s Budget

[babylonsister]

In other words, screw you, Americans!


GOP Leaders Outline Strategy for Opposing Obama’s Budget
By Alan K. Ota, CQ Staff


GOP congressional leaders Friday vowed to oppose President Obama’s budget priorities, comparing them to those of socialist governments in Europe.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and House Minority Leader John A. Boehner of Ohio — speaking to the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington — targeted their barbs at Obama’s fiscal 2010 budget blueprint, including his proposal for a new cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions allowances.

The charge of socialism was used against Obama during his presidential campaign. The lawmakers also abandoned rhetorical references to bipartisanship — often heard during debates in the House and Senate — in their remarks.

The lawmakers said they also opposed Obama’s vision for broadening government health care programs and attacked the pending fiscal 2009 omnibus spending measure (HR 1105) and the newly enacted economic stimulus measure (PL 111-5). They criticized a number of Democratic domestic priorities aimed at the party’s liberal base, such as a proposal to allow unions to organize without a secret ballot, a process known as “card check.”

“Pushing back these efforts to basically Europeanize America will not be easy,” McConnell said. “It will require a committed effort on the part of everyone in this room. It will require carrying our message to those who have left our party and to many more who are receptive to our message. Meanwhile, Republicans in Congress will be vigilant about voting their ideals.”

Boehner said, “The stimulus, the omnibus, the budget, it’s all one big down payment on a new American socialist experiment.”

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[bluestateguy]

1. So what. They can't stop it.

The budget cannot be fillibustered.

[babylonsister]

2. They can bitch and moan and try to get it watered down. nt

[AlinPA]

4. I think they can filibuster the appropriations bill (the actual spending based on the budget). nt

[neverforget]

3. The socialist argument was tried during the campaign last year. You lost

Boner.

[malaise]

5. Tell the Republicanistas to

shut the fuck up.

[Andy823]

6. It doesn't really matter

No matter what Obama tries to do, these clowns are going to be against it! Their biggest problem is going to be convincing anyone who is not part of their "base" that what Obama is doing is "bad" for the country and for the majority of people who don't make millions of dollars every year, and who put vast sums in offshore accounts! The rich had their 8 years of wealth growth. Huge corporations abused the rules and stole trillions from the people. No bid contracts for Bush and Cheney's buddies, deregulation in the financial sector, tax breaks, oil companies making record profits every year that Bush was in office, all these things, and more, did not benefit the average american, but what it did to was put us in the mess we are in now! Democrats need to keep putting that out to the public, they need to show just how much better off the rich were the lat 8 years, and just how much worse the average americans were are now because of those "republican" tactics!

What the leader of the republican party don't seem to understand is that even republicans are tired of the way things went during the Bush years, and trying to keep things the same, where the rich get richer and the middle class and the poor suffer, is not going to make it any longer. They need to realize if they want to make this a "class" war, there are one hell of lot more in the lower class than the upper class, and since their right winger base is now losing jobs, having trouble making their house payments, care payments, and surviving in general, getting the votes in 2010 is not going to be easy, and trying to make it an "us against them", or a "rich against the rest of the country" strategy, is going to work. What I see is they have no other plan, and this is going to divide their party even more, and that's the good thing about it!

[damntexdem]

7. Maybe they should meet in Vegas to talk about it -- they could take that fast train from Disneyland.

I know they must be in Disneyland now, because they seem to be living in Fantasyland.