That's all they do. Constantly.
Posted on 04/08/2011 10:15:07 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
The bipartisan deal struck Friday falls short of the House Republican campaign pledge to cut $100 billion in fiscal 2011 spending.
The pact cuts $78.5 billion when compared to President Obama's fiscal 2011 budget request, which was never enacted.
The accord cuts $39 billion in actual spending, $22 billion less than bill the House passed in February.
In a brief interview, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) told The Hill the agreement was "as good a deal as we could get."
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), chairman of the Republican Study Committee, said he expects "significant" opposition from conservatives, both to the short-term fix and the long-term spending bill. He said he will vote against both
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
I agree. This is a marathon, not a sprint.
Boehner, whom I like personally but have an impression of as being somewhat weak, erratic and disorganized, has only been speaker for three months. He started with a bit of a sputter but seems to be finding his sea legs now. He did better than I expected, but then my expectation of the pubs is very low. But to be fair, he’s not omnipotent and only controls one chamber of one of the two branches involved, so there’s that to keep in mind.
I hope this is teaching the “leadership” that they have to follow the will of those who put them there. Boehner seems to be catching onto that somewhat.
I’m not thrilled with the deal - no conservative would be - but I’m not disappointed, either. The reality is this probably was the best that could be had, and there is more fruit set to bear for us in this deal.
What does disappoint me though is that Reid is taking the fall for obathturd in the eyes of their base.
"I’m happy and I believe most TEA Partiers will be pleased."
Really? Speak for yourself. What will we be pleased about? There are no actual cuts here in the FY 2011 spending! There is only a plan not to spend a tiny part of money that was never budgeted that we don't even have. $38bn represents nothing but 2.7% less of red ink ($1400 bn.) This is less than 1% of the entire FY 2011 budget. It isn't even couch change.
This is immoral and antidemocratic: millions of people who can't yet vote, and millions of people not yet born have just been handed another bill with no say in the matter; it's despotism plain and simple and we're being given the bullsh!t line that it's "historic."
Yes, it's historic. It's the day the United States of America finally admitted to itself that it's finished as a nation. All that's left now is to run our depreciation toward minus infinity while our creditors make the necessary arrangements to shut us down in the way least disruptive to them. This is not hyperbole: July 1776 - April 2011, United States of America, RIP.
Another victory like this and I am undone."
Pyrrhus of Epirus.
And by HUGE WIN, I mean EPIC FAIL. Hopefully, Boehner gets this kind of HUGE WIN the next time the caucus votes.
Another victory like this and I am undone."
Pyrrhus of Epirus.
lol....I get a kick out of these canned messages.
Happy...Pleased...lol
((Lets tell them this is a victory, and maybe someone will buy it))
86 was for someone else.
I agree with your post.
The chickenshit bastards should have shut down the government!
((Tell them they won....Maybe they'll buy it))
(((Yeah, throw it out there, see if they fetch the bone)))
> Baah, fighting instincts like sheep.
Sheep in sheep’s clothing.
If that were the case and the Republicans insisted that the cuts be made and Obama and company said okay but no pay for the military while the government is shut down then O and co. were in the catbird seat because most people that I talked to from either party were appalled that pay might be withheld from military families. So,if that had happened everyone would have reason to condemn the Republicans and the Dems would have insisted that the Republicans wouldn't budge and "it was their way or else".
I can't help but wonder if the Dems found the one really vulnerable group Americans in general would have not forgiven the Repubs for hurting. Then they used that issue and the military as the means to get their way.
Democrats are the disease.
The GOP is the placebo.
Don’t you people see that the GOP is not intended to win?
It is a Quisling organization.
> So,if that had happened everyone would have reason to condemn the Republicans and the Dems would have insisted that the Republicans wouldn’t budge and “it was their way or else”.
That makes no sense - well - it IS the way the media would have spun it - but it was OBAMA that brought up ‘not paying the military’ not the Republicans. And despite the media spin, it is unlikely that the military would have blamed the Republicans. If we can’t stand up to those threats - then we should just sit our a$$ down.
The GOP had better get ready for a new Party-the TeaParty.
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Yes. I read somewhere here today “We’ll have to see how they do in 2012.”
No.
This quarter is where we see what they do. They fail, as they always fail.
MENE MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN
Really? Were you expecting a stellar performance from the pubs wherein the pubs rolled back a couple trillion in spending? Is that what you thought was going to happen?
I get tired of these canned, lala land fantasies from supposedly intelligent conservatives who are really just tantrum-prone whiners.
$39 billion isn’t enough, but Harry Reid deliberately waited to act on pub budget and finance bills pending for two months so he could push the pubs up against a shutdown.
This is not going to be turned around and resolved in the first three months of pub control of one of the three bodies involved (House, Senate and prez). if you can’t muster some patience, go sit in the corner and sulk. Oh. You already are. LOL.
That’s such a ridiculous analysis, it’s embarrassing to be a member here when I read such idiocies.
This is like watching wrestling, as the audience cheers on their masked heroes, as they take turns performing rehearsed acrobats for the audience of ignorant believers.
These are the cuts passed TONITE in the Stopgap Spending measure:
(First number is 2010 budget, 2nd number is 2011 budget, 3rd number is amount cut.)
Transportation Planning, Research, and Development
$16,168,000 $9,800,000 $6,368,000
FAA Facilities and Equipment
$2,936,203,000 $2,927,500,000 $8,703,000
FAA Research, Engineering, and Development
$190,500,000 $187,000,000 $3,500,000
Capital Assistance for High Speed & Intercity Passenger Rail
$2,500,000,000 $1,000,000,000 $1,500,000,000
Railroad Research and Development
$37,613,000 $35,100,000 $2,513,000
Federal Transit Administration: Capital Investment Grants
$2,000,000,000 $1,720,000,000 $280,000,000
Federal Transit Administration: Research and University Research Centers
$65,670,000 $64,200,000 $1,470,000
Public Housing Operating Fund
$4,775,000,000 $4,626,000,000 $149,000,000
Community Development Fund
$4,450,000,000 $4,230,068,480 $219,931,520
This is $2.171 billion in spending cuts passed today.
That's all they do. Constantly.
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