House GOP to endorse pre-Obama spending levels (It's a start)

washington post ^ | 1/25/2011 | By ANDREW TAYLOR

[tobyhill]

Republicans controlling the House are putting members on record in favor of cutting the day-to-day budgets for domestic Cabinet agencies back to the levels in place before President Barack Obama won the White House.

Tuesday's vote comes on a nonbinding resolution that promises cuts approaching 20 percent of the budgets for agencies like the Education and Commerce departments when Congress wraps up the long-overdue budget for the current fiscal year. The White House warns that such cuts would mean furloughs of tens of thousands of federal workers.

"The time to exercise our power of the purse with discipline and restraint is long overdue," said Rep. David Dreier, R-Calif. "We must return to pre-bailout, pre-binge levels of funding for the federal government."

The actual GOP cuts would be made in a follow-up spending bill slated to advance next month and are sure to encounter strong resistance from the Democratic-controlled Senate and from Obama.

[expat_panama]

"...a matter of perpective. Compared to Obama..."

--and that's a decision to be permanently miserable.  The Misery Cult is not only sick, it's also factually wrong and a flippin' pain in the a$$.  Our creed should be to first be happy with life and the world our Creator gave us.   Then we look at the choices and pick what looks better than what we got.

Crybabies doing nothing but complain only give control to those who make things worse.    Imagine election day 2008 if no conservatives had stayed home pouting.