Just before the President got everything he wanted last term, this very paper predicted he was a lame duck who would get nothing. Keep that in mind.
No way am I going to be a part of rebuilding a city-in-a-bowl, run by Socialists.
It's like christmas for liberals! The MSM is making big wishes!
When this all settles, the truth will get out, like with the national guard story, and both the MSM and the liberals who run LA/NOLA will be tarred and feathered.
Rescue, Recovery, Relief - Spend what you need.
Rebuild - Only if you rebuild somewhere above sea level, and no money to be spent on non-infrastructure costs. Private residences, and commercial/industrial buildings can be built using private funds.
How do they say it? Zone it and they will come?
Dream on, Qumquats.
More MSM wishful thinking.
And the conclusion:
"None of that will necessarily mean the abandonment of tax cutting and cuts to Medicaid, student loans, farm price supports and other popular programs. Conservative activists hotly denied that there had been any slackening of will.
"I don't think Republicans will be fooled into taking this necessary spending and using it to oppose pro-growth tax cuts," said Grover G. Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform, who castigated Reid for "using this tragedy and those deaths for his own political desires."
The energy dividends to the country in a few years will erase any deficit quickly.
Congressional Republicans did not plan to cut spending, ever.
"We in the media hope....".
Strip out all earmarks from the budget. That alone will free up several billions.
Sure, as if the GOP agenda was going smoothly before. Please. Disaster or no disaster they were whining the same line before and would still.
The agenda will move forward so far as the President wants it to move forward. He has a lot on his plate, but seemingly is one of the only people in WA capable of doing more than one thing at once and doing it well. The gutless cowards in the Congress will always be gutless cowards looking for reason not to act, that hasn't changed.
Oh, I don't know, dumbass, maybe STOP SPENDING LIKE DRUNKEN SAILORS ON PORK? Was that answer clear enough?
""How do you do tax cuts when your budget is straining to save lives?""
He already did the tax cuts. Now he just needs to make it permenant.
Media is *always* attempting to derail Bush and GOP agenda over one thing or another .... if not this, then they'd say it was Iraq, if not that, something else.
they never let up.
They've had 5 years to do this; they have waddled as fast as possible to create an ever larger government. There haven't been any small government Republicans since before Goldwater.
Yes we can forget about tax cuts, and thanks GOP for all the big spending yall did these last few years and all the new government programs yall brought us these last few years, etc, etc, etc. Now that we need some money the only way to get it is tax, tax, tax. And, comming soon, if you are against higher taxes you are a racist.