Posted on 03/17/2005 12:23:49 PM PST by Cagey
The Republicans have moved left.
And the left. Well. What can one say. They've moved into the outer hemisphere. They've left socialism in the dust.
Well now the media and the Demonrats (same difference) can stop blaming Bush for deficits and see who the real culprits are, both Demonrats and so-called Republicans in the Congress who think you can control deficits while allowing entitlement spending to spiral out of control. Well Bush is forever inocculated against the claim he is to blame for all the deficits. We now see who the real culprits are. Bush tried and the Congress balked. It's their deficit now.
"Some neoconservatives these days argue big government is OK so long as it is conservative big government representing values in which they believe. Big government is not OK. Every inch the government grows, the same inch is taken from the liberties of the people, starting with the basic liberty of spending your own money the way you choose rather than the way the government chooses to spend it for you. Massive programs inevitably have unintended consequences; government, though necessary for many purposes, is no more a precision instrument for constructive social change than a sledgehammer is for brain surgery."
--Jay Ambrose
Afraid of the granny vote.
Brave Sir Robin and his merry band of republican spending addicts do it again.
None of them will be happy till we are all destitute and ALL on the dole. They are bound to turn the US into Europe at all costs. As it is, I can hardly afford to work.
Damn. Six RINOs can ruin your day.
>The Medicaid cuts could still be revived when the House and Senate try writing a compromise budget next month. The more conservative House was voting Thursday on a similar budget that would make way for up to $20 billion in Medicaid savings.<
It's not necessarily over yet.
I've contacted the RNC to air my grievances and all I've received in return are more phone calls asking for money. The Republican Party will not receive one red cent of my modest budget until they fire Davidson and support smaller government with less spending.
Until then, my political donations go directly to candidates that I can support in good conscience.
The GOP has been playing 7-card-fold'em way too long...
The only good thing you can say about these votes is that it will take Bush off the hook for being the big spender..
I just hope he has the guts to veto any of these programs that they have voted more money to---
Now is the time for a line item veto also--
It isn't the granny's that are on medicaid, I know I do medical billing and the most and highest bills are neonatal,
200K to a mil in costs for a preemie. Unwed mothers are on medicaid and accounts for about 75% the rest is between the illegals and the disabled.
It doesn't get him totally off the hook, he is spending big in other areas.
When RINOs attack . . .
This is good news.
Every time the RATS start talking about deficits he can say to the camera that once again the RATS killed a deficit reduction bill so that they can continue their social spending ways.
Strategery I tell you!!!
This was a one-percent proposed cut and our gutless RINOS flinched from it. President Bush tried to make a symbolic cut and not even that can get through the Senate. Not much hope for good judges or S.S. reform, despite a majority of Senate seats, Ugh!
On the military and the war, sure....
He had submitted a budget with cuts--where else are you talking about?
What would happen if the first two were means-tested the way Medicaid is? Would that save any money?
Sen. Gordon Smith was elected as a good conservative Republican. But, he feels that to keep his office he has to pander to the Rats in the valley. Hence, his 180 turnaround on gay marriage, abortion, and fiscal responsibility. I phoned his office and told the perky lady that if I had intended for a Rat to have that office I would have voted for one!!
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