Posted on 12/18/2010 10:15:45 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
WASHINGTON—Even as President Barack Obama signed a broad, bipartisan tax law, battle lines were being drawn over spending cuts and Mr. Obama's health-care law, setting up the likely first big fights in the new Congress.
Senate Republicans, facing an uproar from tea-party activists, rose up late Thursday to scuttle a $1.1 trillion spending bill, turning their backs on billions of dollars in projects that they had championed.
In the process, they showed the power fiscally conservative activists now hold over even the most seasoned lawmakers.
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Time to defund - unfund - defund - unfund - defund - unfund......
KoRn,
Ya Ever hear of any gub mint agency getting shut down? Ever?
It’s about time. I mean what is the bureau of indian afairs?
Billions still go to it.
Republicans would be wise to focus on discretionary spending cuts for the next 2 years. I feel that the Irskine Bowles/Alan Simpson commision report is a trap for the GOP. It would lead them to cut SS and Medicare first and then cut discretionary spending. That would lead to them becoming very unpopular.
The truth of the matter is that most folks feel that there is a lot waste/fraud/abuse in discretionary spending while everyone has an elderly relative who lives on SS & Medicare. The GOP shouldn’t even talk about doing anything with SS & Medicare until they’ve won the people’s confidence by significantly cutting discretionary spending.
Yeah, I know that SS & Medicare are the largest parts of the budget but they are very popular programs and the GOP needs to make sure they work on things like earmarks and wasteful discretionary spending first. It wouldn’t be the worst idea in the world to make public unions whine a whole lot before they begin to discuss the entitlement stuff.
Short list to defund :
BATFE
NEA
EPA
TSA
Homeland security
CIA
No funding to UN
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