[shrinkermd]

Well, promises are promises and they will have to do something.

[eraser2005]

Why do they have to do something? Politicians from both parties have a long history of promising things, not delivering, then getting re-elected based on the same promises.

Of course, they couldn't do much worse than congress has done the past 6 years in terms of controlling the deficit.

[EQAndyBuzz]

First thing they will do is let the tax reductions expire which the MSM will announce that the extra money just balanced the budget thanks to the RATS fiscal conservatism.

They will then cut military spending, showing a surplus which they will then use to pay for their programs.

Just in time for Hillary in 2008 to announce her candidacy and universal health care that will only cost each tax payer a teensy weensy bit of their salary.

The deficit will then go up to a trillion dollars, interest rates will once again be 19%, nothing would still have been done about social security and the RATS will blame Bush's failed 8 years in office for it,

And the MSM will eagerly eat it up.

[JRios1968]

As yet, Democrats have hung no price tag on their forthcoming agenda. Many of the high-priority items they have pledged to enact in the first 100 hours of the new Congress, such as an increase in the minimum wage, wouldn't cost Washington lots of money.

The price tag will be huge...and it won't cost Washington a bit...WE THE PEOPLE will pay the bill.

[JRios1968]

In addition, incoming Speaker Pelosi said in a statement last month that the party is committed to "no new deficit spending." She said Democrats intend to restore pay-as-you-go rules, which require increases in the federal budget to be offset by either tax hikes orAND cuts in defense spending elsewhere.

Fixed for accuracy.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Kinda hypocritical to complain about Democrat spending when the Republicans didn't do anything about spending.