[Nathan Zachary]

"The following week, the president will host what the White House is billing as a "fiscal responsibility" summit on February 23. The goal of the summit is to begin weighing the impact of massive federal programs like Social Security and Medicare just days before the president plans to unveil his first annual budget to Congressional leaders. "

What a freakin' JOKE!!! Wasn't this "bill" basically his "budget"?

[Sigurdrifta]

Um, shouldn’t they maybe have done this BEFORE they passed this bill?

[blueplum]

What a freakin' JOKE!!! Wasn't this "bill" basically his "budget"?

nope - some have been led to believe by the msm that it WAS the budget, but the current bill is in addition to the budget - as will be 'stimulus 2' and 'stimulus 3', which is why so many of us are jumping up and down and foaming at the mouth over all these outrageous 'extras'. Watch for congress, who had a pre-election 9% approval rating, to vote themselves (another) payraise first thing out the gate. best regards, blu