1) the Republicans control both the House and the Senate. He has called for restraint on every budget. He has been ignored by the Congress.
2)He has not abandoned anything. We have border enforcement better than what we did have.
3)His NCLB actually is getting some result out of the Federal money that would have been spent anyway. If you want to get elected, just tell everyone you are gonna cut education spending.
4)He didn't propose it. He did not support it. He told Congress explicitly that he would sign it if it made it to his desk. Not his fault the dumba$$es in Congress sent it to him.
5)Cutting the budget is not going to happen. That is a political reality. There is only a small amount of discretionary spending in the budget to cut, and its mostly lib pet projects. I've heard him called racist enough.
Cutting the budget is not going to happen. That is a political reality. There is only a small amount of discretionary spending in the budget to cut, and its mostly lib pet projects. I've heard him called racist enough.If there is only a small amount of discretionary spending to cut, then why isn't he working to CUT IT?
Such cuts might be insignificant in the overall budget, but apart from whether or not they advance actual deficit reduction, they have symbolic importance, and could do much to change public perceptions on what "services" we may or may not rightfully expect from our government.
So call me when we have no more federally funded studies proving that political conservatives are mentally dysfunctional.
And when Big Bird is paying his own costs of hawking his merchandise and raking in the bucks in the marketplace, instead of using our hard-earned tax dollars as working capital.
Getting rid of pork has to start with educating the people about some hard economic realities. Bush's "compassionate" conservatism ensures that will never happen.