Republican No Show!

[affrayer]

I don't know if you've noticed but dozens of right wingers are coming out of the wood work claiming they are going to cut spending in the federal budget by anywhere from a half trillion dollars to a trillion. Trouble is, not one of them has offered any specifics...

Sen. Mike Lee, Rep. Michele Bachmann, Sen. Rand Paul, Sen. Richard Shelby, and dozens of other right wing politicians have broadcast their desire to take a chain saw to the federal budget. Although not one has offered a single specific dollar bill in spending cuts.

It's all horse shit...

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/01/14/shelby-trillion-cut/">Shelby Proposes $1 Trillion In Budget Cuts ‘Across The Board’

Makes you wonder just how delusional one has to be to vote the republican party line...

[PBS Poll-435]

1. Faith-based Accounting

:patriot:

[DCKit]

9. With a pinch of magical thinking.

It's amazing, Fairy dust smells exactly like bullshit.

[affrayer]

12. More like

Supernatural...

[Joanne98]

22. Good one! LOL

[Avalux]

2. Of course it's horseshit. Providing a letigitimate alternative is not their objective.

We all know what their true objective is and it has nothing to do with improving the economy.

[affrayer]

13. It's A Sad Day

We all know what their true objective is and it has nothing to do with improving the economy.

When we realize that their right wing base falls for their stick election cycle after election cycle...

You'd think that by now they would realize it's all lies.

[LiberalEsto]

3. Well, they could repeal tax cuts for the rich

but naturally they won't. Anything that makes sense is beyond them.

[affrayer]

14. And Admit They Were Dead Wrong?

I'd mark that day on my calender if I thought there was ever a chance of that happening...

[spanone]

4. when boehner was asked he had no answer

In his first interview since being sworn-in as House Speaker, John Boehner struggled to identify budget cuts that could be made to reduce government spending. The one-on-one with NBC News' Brian Williams aired on Thursday night.

Asked to name a specific program that could be trimmed from the fiscal plan, Boehner responded, "I don't think I have one off the top of my head." However, the newly-minted speaker added, "There is no part of this government that should be sacred."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/06/john-boehner-interview-ho_n_805576.html

[old mark]

6. How about legislator's pay and benefits, Boner...I bet THAT is sacred!...nt

[affrayer]

15. Yes...

But isn't that because Boehner is a boner?

Seriously, only the republicans would elect a stiffy to be speaker of the House.

[LiberalEsto]

21. Maybe they should tax orange people nt

[anakie]

23. One trillion plus on defence in 2010

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_States

might be a good place to start looking. But no, it will be social security, education, healthcare infrastructure etc. When was the last time the military did a cake drive to raise funds?


Peace

[Historic NY]

5. He wants to revert to 2008 spending levels...

wow that really cutting & gutting, these morans don't have any fresh ideas. Isn'tthat when the TARP & the bailouts kicked in...........weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Creative bookkeeping 101.

WASHINGTON — For his first annual budget next week, President Obama has banned four accounting gimmicks that President George W. Bush used to make deficit projections look smaller. The price of more honest bookkeeping: A budget that is $2.7 trillion deeper in the red over the next decade than it would otherwise appear, according to administration officials.


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/20/us/politics/20budget.html?_r=1

[affrayer]

16. Obama Should Balance The Budget The Republican Way

Take all spending off budget...

[Maraya1969]

7. Barack Obama as a candidate said he was going to go through

the budget "line by line" to find programs he thinks we could do without. I think his staff were doing such a thing because I saw a list once of the things they had cut. Correct me if I am wrong.

[affrayer]

17. Very Well

Correct me if I am wrong.

First Obama tried: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/21/AR2009022100911.html">Obama's First Budget Seeks To Trim Deficit Plan Would Cut War Spending, Increase Taxes on the Wealthy

Then he tried: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/us/politics/26budget.html">Obama to Seek Spending Freeze to Trim Deficits

But his own party wouldn't back him: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/05/democrats-cautious-on-obamas-s.html">Democrats cautious on Obama's spending-cut proposal

Happy?

[Historic NY]

26. remember this in a few weeks.........

Republicans were quick to mock the freeze proposal. “Given Washington Democrats’ unprecedented spending binge, this is like announcing you’re going on a diet after winning a pie-eating contest,” said Michael Steel, a spokesman for the House Republican leader, Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio.

[affrayer]

27. Give reality a break

The democrats did what they thought was necessary to starve off Bush Jr's depression. And while you can argue with the amount of money they spent to do it, there is no argument that they did indeed avoid the total collapse of our economy caused by the republicans and their abysmal policies, by their spending.

[Historic NY]

28. I not disagreeing.........Boner & co. are.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/us/politics/26budget.html?_r=1

they got nothing except Social Security & Health care in their sights.

[bobbolink]

24. Yup, and disability is one of those, because they could... they knew nobody would raise a fuss.

[SoCalDem]

8. They only know what they do NOT want.. Democratic success.

Success by a dem, means a likelihood of re-election for them and a continuing seat-at-the-trough...and a republican gets booted from his/her seat at the trough..

They do not care one bit about any good that could come to the general public..only how it affects their ability to scam money from the system for themselves & their buddies

[affrayer]

18. But When They Fail

Already the teabaggers are getting ready to revolt as the republicans settle back into "business as usual."

I expect the electoral map of 2012 to be all over the place...

[pansypoo53219]

10. velvety arithmetic

fuzzy math. anything but taxes!!!!!!

[affrayer]

19. I Agree

Although I wouldn't call what the republicans are doing "math." More like hallucinations.

[louis-t]

11. Their ideology will not let them cut spending.

The things repugs believe in don't work and only cost the government money. The things they hate and want to get rid of do work and save the government money. It must suck to be a republican.

[affrayer]

20. Just Remember The One Thing Republicans Are Good At...

Turning taxpayers money into their own profits...if you keep that in mind, you know exactly what the republicans will be trying to do.

[lunatica]

25. They're stuck in obstructionism. They've done nothing but say "no".

I think there's a lot more noise than action in the 112th Congress. The last 2 years haven't seen a single law passed that came from the Republican side. I don't even think they've written any bills in that time.