Posted on 04/08/2011 9:20:07 PM PDT by Brian_Baldwin
Congratulations House Speaker John Boehner, thank you and my respect for you has grown so much in this one night. You did the stand up job, you are the man and I am willing to say so and take the jibes from those who say it isn’t so. I say Thanks again, this is the first step, may be a small step but it was also a big step in mind set and in showing the power of the Republican leadership. When I say my respect for you has jumped in no small way, I really mean it for what it’s worth coming from just another Republican in the Middle Class. For some, they are going to say that someone blinked, that it wasn’t 60 billion, but those who know the score also know that this was a huge victory for Republicans, yes the Tea Party, and the first strike in the battle front that is yet to come and the win was ours. In regards to abortion, it’s already in the wording that tax payer money should not go to pay for that – as the battle moves forward the day of reckoning is coming for the abortionists who take our tax money as well, this is the first step in a bigger battle to come. God bless and continue the great job.
Well I will sure anxiously await that....
Oh? We got enough cuts to afford first HALF DAY of the new war that O picked in Libya.
What the govt saves, it simply spends somewhere else.
We ain't saved nothin.
How about just let the stinking government shut down, Gump?
Normal, working, traditional American families would barely notice, and that's what scares the career political scumbags more than anything. The only people who would notice are the people who knock each other over cramming their snouts deeper into the public trough - - mainly the bums, deadbeats, and parasites who comprise the Democrat party "base".
Heartland, it’s worthless trying to argue with some of these Republican apologists. They’re Republicans first, conservatives second.
“We didn’t get it all as some purists would want”
LOL....we cut less than 2% of the yearly deficit. Not in spending, but the yearly deficit. I’d say you’re correct in saying us “purists” didn’t get all we want. You need to study the numbers and realize your postion is much closer to Obama’s and Reid’s than us “purists”. After you study the numbers, you may just realize how ridiculous your position is. In fact, I’m surprised you didn’t already understand that.
It was way past time to stop arguing over 2011 budget and move on to 2012!
Well duh! But unfortuneately they don't end there!
The Gov't "workers" were going to be paid retroactive after the shutdown.
You want to give them another paid vacation? Not me!
Amen to that. I really don't give a rats a$$ what Boehner did or didn't do. I care what it's effect on America is going to be . The America that my children and grandchildren are going to inherit and have to pay 50-85% tax rates for, if that even manages to cover the bills that congresses for the past 35 years have built up.
lol. Think you're right. time to go do something else ;)
Oh? Does that include votes on judicial nominees?
I think those are some fairly salient points made by the team on Fox; -all things considered.
And what's that??? 19 trillion for a presripton drug program? Isn't that a Republican program foisted on us by President Bush???
I have little doubt that that is yet another thing the cowardly Republicans would agree to.
Thanks for the reminder.
“Ronald Reagan would NOT approve of that.”
You mean Gerald Ford, don’t you? Reagan took him on in 1976 and cut the party right down the middle. It needed to be done. Enough of this Reagan revisionism.
‘Does that include votes on judicial nominees?’
Absolutely, so long as there is an agreement by the party leaderships to have a vote on a nominee, a vote will be held.
‘The only people who would notice are the people who knock each other over cramming their snouts deeper into the public trough - - mainly the bums, deadbeats, and parasites who comprise the Democrat party “base”.’
Into which of these categories would you place the American military and their families — bums, deadbeats, or parasites?
NOTHING — let me repeat — NOTHING was cut. We're not spending $38 bn out of $1400 bn we don't have in a budget of $4000 bn that was never passed to begin with.
We control 1/3 of the process. That means we should have started with $467 bn in cuts to the FY deficit budget RIGHT NOW and negotiated from there. What has happened tonight is tyrannical: it taxes, without representation, hundreds of millions of Americans who can't yet vote or who have never been born. It's nothing more than business as usual.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Now will the shills for the Republican Congressional Campaign Commitee please go to bed and leave the adults to post on FR.
I wish Speaker Boenher a BIG WIN like this the next time the caucus votes for leadership.
Boehner’s definitely no hero on this one. But the thing is, it can be argued that this was not the Repubs budget, because we are finishing up FY 2010-which the Dems were already supposed to do a budget for but shirked their responsibility. So, this is really only about spending from now till end of September.
Still, these so called ‘cuts’ are chump change. With a $1.5 trillion deficit, they should have started with a figure like $500 billion, and negotiated from there. This was no great win and it really disturbs me how fearful they are of a govn’t shutdown.
I’ll give Boehner a ‘mulligan’ on this one, since it was only a partial year budget, but the next round is really his last chance in my mind to show real leadership. We’d better not get this same crap next fall when we’re talking about a full year budget in which the House is responsible to write. They better be willing to shut it all down if necessary.
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