Posted on 03/29/2009 6:13:33 PM PDT by neverdem
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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