Trouble May Be Brewing for GOP on Budget

AP on Yahoo ^ | 3/28/06 | Andrew Taylor - ap

[NormsRevenge]

Moderates,, democRats in GOP clothing

[Echo Talon]

the sky continues to fall...

[sageb1]

Hope the RINOs keeping making their spending wishes known. I want their names.

[MNJohnnie]

Great, they all ready passed it with more then a 2/3s vote.

[Kuksool]

I thought moderate republicans were conservative on fiscal issues, but liberal on social issues.

[upchuck]

This is disgusting.

RINOS out!

[WOSG]

"they" passed "what"
Conservative passed a conservative budget?!?

"Man Bites Dogs"

[petercooper]

Quote of the year:

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R) said that "Republicans have done so well in cutting spending that he declared an 'ongoing victory,' and said there is simply no fat left to cut in the federal budget," the Washington Times reports.

Said DeLay: "My answer to those that want to offset the spending is sure, bring me the offsets, I'll be glad to do it. But nobody has been able to come up with any yet."

When asked if that meant the government was running at peak efficiency, DeLay said, "Yes, after 11 years of Republican majority we've pared it down pretty good."

[WideGlide]

RINO's

[DTogo]

Trouble May Be Brewing for GOP on Budget...

and on immigration

and on border security

and on energy indpendence

and on their support for the war effort

and on their knee-jerk xenophobic reaction to the Dubai Ports deal

[MNJohnnie]

Because passing it with more then a 2/3s vote makes it highly unlikely that W will finnaly discover what the !@$!#$# Veto pen is there for on this one

[Soul Seeker]

Ditto to your list, add where they stand on tax cuts right now and continued filibustering of judges.

"I'm hopeful that the House conservatives can prevail, but I don't know that they have a working majority over there any more than our conservatives over here," said the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, Sen. Judd Gregg (news, bio, voting record), R-N.H.

Since Delay was removed, discipline in the House has gone to Hell. Gregg's probably correct. Hence my tagline.

[The Old Hoosier]

Moderates already are demanding a rewrite to boost popular domestic programs.

Just how "popular" are these programs anyway? How many people even know what they are?

[MarcusTulliusCicero]

I fully expect that, within a year, we will see MisRepresentatives offering their votes to the highest bidder on EBay.

[NormsRevenge]

An amendment by Sen. Arlen Specter (news, bio, voting record), R-Pa., to add $7 billion for education, health and job training programs passed by a 73-27 vote, even attracting support from Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn.

Specter annually writes a huge spending measure for education and health programs and says the $7 billion would restore programs to their levels of two years ago. All told, senators added $16 billion above Bush's spending cap.

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The question should be what spending is "necessary" versus "popular".

Sadly, most politicians are not able nor desirous of discerning the difference.

[paul51]

"I will not vote for a House budget resolution that would result in real cuts to critical federal investments in education, health care, housing veterans' services, social and community block grants and encourage my colleagues ... to do the same," Rep. Mike Castle, R-Del., told a cheering crowd of health and education advocates on Tuesday.

This is the problem. Politicians don't understand the difference between an investment and an expense. That and the fact that they can buy votes with taxpayer's money.

[SmoothTalker]

Are those quotes for real? Lord I hope not!