I like this guy.
Because we can't afford them?
Think of it as the first baby step.
Real cutting will only happen after 2012, when the Republicans pick up the senate.
Hopefully, there is a very strong, very conservative candidate who will run for president as well. Though he will have to announce late in the game, because he is going to be attacked and vilified with every bit of hatred and bile the Democrats can muster.
His best bet will probably be to order a return of most American combat forces, so his focus can almost exclusively be on domestic policy—something that Republican presidents have traditionally disliked.
But this can be done safely only if congress seals the US borders first thing, primarily to Muslim entry. An embargo of Muslim entry for four years. And no guff from federal judges that it is discriminatory.
The Republican will have to lead a Republican House and Senate to enormous cuts with dizzying speed. Closing entire agencies of government, then perhaps passing balanced budget and presidential line item veto amendments to the States.
Layoffs in the federal service of a third to a half of all government employees. And if any federal judge interferes, then threaten them with impeachment. And if this means cancelling their federal employee collective bargaining rights, so be it, and decertify the union at the same time.
Congress and the president should be laying off and closing parts of the government so rapidly that every day for months there should be a news story, and the bureaucracy will be so frazzled that they cannot launch a defense or counter attack.
O wanted billions of dollars more in spending.
We reversed course. Thank you tea party folks for standing up for all of us.
Yeah. That explains how we went from 100 billion dollars in cuts to 10 billion dollars in cuts in 8 short weeks.
C'mon, 2012!
Stupid DemocRATS. It's because we believe the private sector should be creating jobs, not government.
Upon further reflection, I believe there is something to be learned here as it relates to The Tea Party's strategy going in to 2012.
The word "jobs" should be stricken from our vocabulary and replaced with the word "businesses".
Somebody ping Sarah Palin. I think I just won her the 2012 election.
Cutting? Winning? Please. $38.5 billion is less than 1% of the Kenyan Muslim’s budget. Its meaningless. Its a joke. Bread and circuses for the serfs, but it is nothing. Our guys are pussies and the majority we worked so hard to elect in 2010 is a cruel disappointment in 2011.
Boehner is a joke. Cantor is a joke. Obama is the one who is laughing.
Let’s not get carried away. $38 billion is a long, looonnng way from $1.7 trillion and until “entitlements” are killed, not cut - killed, we will forever be chasing a receding goal line.
Well if that isn't a DNC talking point...
They cut less than half a day’s worth of spending. That’s right. They cut a mere 12 hours of spending. All that grandstanding over not much.