Posted on 03/29/2009 6:13:33 PM PDT by neverdem
"Two nights ago the president said, 'We haven't seen a budget yet out of Republicans.' Well, it's just not true because — here it is, Mr. President," House Minority leader Rep. John Boehner told the press March 26, holding up a blue booklet entitled The Republican Road to Recovery.
“Here it is”? No, there it wasn’t.
How much would the Republicans spend? No one can say. The 19-page Republican “alternative” budget contained:
The only charts in the “budget” are the ones that correctly highlight President Obama’s fiscal irresponsibility.
How the Republican leadership can call a document with neither revenues nor spending levels a “budget” is impossible to say. But it does explain quite clearly why the Republican Party is the minority party in American politics.
When reporters pressed Boehner for details on the budget, he informed them that the GOP would be releasing them later in the week. So much for "here it is."
Long on fuzzy rhetoric and completely lacking in budget details, the “budget” does lay out two Republican policy goals on the issues of healthcare and taxes. On healthcare, the Republicans state: “Republicans seek to provide universal access to affordable health care and to address Medicare and Medicaid’s trillion dollar unfunded liabilities with common-sense reforms that ensure our children and grandchildren can secure benefits in the future.”
Take out the “Republican” from that quote, and the line would have fit any socialist leader, such as Hillary Clinton in her remarks during the 2008 presidential campaign.
The Republicans also called for significant income tax cuts limiting the “marginal tax rate for income up to $100,000 of 10 percent and 25 percent for any income thereafter, with a generous standard deduction and personal exemption.”
A tax cut sounds good, but unless it’s paired with spending cuts, it’s not a tax cut at all. A tax cut without corresponding spending cuts would only result in alternative taxation through inflation and deficit spending. It would only accelerate Obama’s credit-card socialism.
A person with no substance or principles is known as an “empty suit.” The “Empty Party,” the Republican Party, has just put forth its “empty budget.”
Photo of Rep. John Boehner: AP Images
The GOP is doomed with leaders like Boehner and Cantor and Mcconnell
“No spending numbers
No tax revenue numbers
No deficit/surplus levels
No spending levels for any government agencies
No specific budget cuts mentioned”
Holy Cow what the hell have we elected here??
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You know I would vote third party but there is no inertia it would be more symbolic if anything and helping the Rats.
I'm curious to see if anyone here will defend the GOP on this utter crap. Are you conservatives getting the message yet?
Mine would be “Conservative Party since the last election,” but I prefer the one I currently have.
It’s a more global sentiment, I think...
If no one starts, then how can inertia grow?
Just a thought...
Somebody is pulling our chain. Because the highly touted GOP budget reply is to be unveiled next week
Just a thought...”
I think the time is bad right now for any kind of a movement that way we are better off to stay and fight.
The GOP hasn’t released it’s detailed budget yet. They released a blueprint and the media and Rats are acting as if it is the completed alternative budget (which it is not).
I started going through the budget and immediately found 141 billion in savings. I eliminated the Departments of Education, Agriculture, and Housing and Urban Development.
Those are the three departments with the least redeeming value.
The Republican Zero spending stimulus just needs some laws removed.....maybe Basic economics doesn’t need figures pulled out of a hat......The CBO figures for Obama’s proposal are being ignored.....so far.
If Republicans could get 5 % of the MSM air time BHO gets, we might get details of the Republican plan.....we are lucky this negative report made the airways.
For those who haven't seen it, pleas read the entire Republican "budget" proposal, "The Republican Road to Recovery." Before you say, "Read the whole budget, are you crazy?" This "roadmap" is only 7 pages plus a nice cover page (8 pages total).
In other "Stupid Party" news, Boehner also put up a petition about personal savings and the upcoming (not yet submitted) "Savings Recovery Act" that John Kline will be submitting, along with Dave Camp (Mich.), Brett Guthrie (Ky.), Dean Heller (Nev.), Lynn Jenkins (Kansas), Sam Johnson (Texas), Bob Latta (Ohio), Howard McKeon (Calif.), Ed Royce (Calif.), and Pat Tiberi (Ohio). The "petition" is so vague that I can't imagine anyone "signing" it, even online. All it really says is: "I stand with other Americans today in calling on Congress to take action immediately to help Americans rebuild our hard-earned savings."
Now, if I signed that, the Dems could use it to tax all 401(k) accounts 50% and redistribute the money to those "unfortunates" who have no savings accounts at all. .That would be "taking action." But that's not what I want.
Why are Boehner, Cantor, McConnell and the other Republican "leaders" afraid to make actual concrete proposals? Why don't they stand for anything? Just vague generalities. I guess they think that Obama got away with saying nothing and now he's Pres__ent, so standing for nothing specific is a path to success. Unfortunately, that only works when the propaganda ministry supports you and gets a "thrill running up their leg" when they cover the story of him saying nothing so eloquently.
It won't work for Republicans because the (D) Party Propaganda Ministry (formerly called "the media") won't support them. And also, thinking conservative voters won't fall for eloquent speakers who stand for nothing.
Agriculture is big business... and as such, should be part of the Department of Commerce.
Well done. Are you available in 2012?
“I think the time is bad right now for any kind of a movement that way we are better off to stay and fight.”
I have been hearing this since I was 18 and considered John Andersen’s third party run. (note the age)
So to quote another line “If not now, then when...”
There is always some dem boogie man around the corner that gets all of us to hold our collective noses and pull the lever for people like Dole, Bush 1 and 2 and most recently McCain. So I guess the right time for this 3rd party is when we have a good 3rd party candidate, a good republican and a centrist democrat we could live with. Do you know something about the weather forecast for hell?
No!! But I am smart enough to keep my vote where it will count and not on a Also ran Symbolic candidate that has 2% of the voters!
That's pretty funny because the Dems came up with almost the same savings by cutting fewer departments.....DoD.
The one party system has failed.
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