HOUSE - WHITE HOUSE TEAM UP AGAINST SENATE TO CONTROL SPENDING

House Policy Committee ^ | June 28, 2002

[ReleaseTheHounds]

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[hchutch]

Hot darn! Tom Davis is gonna get an attaboy!

[rintense]

Go Pete Hoekstra!

[Ingtar]

Go Ed Bryant! Hopefully he will be Senator Ed Bryant.

[AAABEST]

All this fuss over around 6 billion?

I find that amusing as nobody was making a damn peep over the hundreds of billions that made it past the veto pen.

If this does get vetoed, at least we would know that the current executive is capable of vetoing something. This would be the very first presidential veto of any bill, much less any big spending bill.

[r9etb]

Yowza! The political implications here are huge!

Obviously there's a "take back the Senate" flavor to this, but it also makes a fine House campaign issue.

Also, the prospect of (finally) some open cooperation between Congressional Republicans and the WH could have some real benefits (and also political ones) with regard to tax cuts, etc.

Which plays into presidential politics, etc.

And then there's the implications for the Supreme Court and other judicial nominations. The "obstructionist" charge is already hurting the D's, and a further "spendthrift" label hurts them more. They'll roll over on judges before the elections.

[Linda Liberty]

Notwithstanding Cox's comment, the actual letter is pretty
lame. It says they will sustain a veto if the supplementary bill is
too large. It says absolutely nothing about the farm bill,
drug benefits, etc etc which can be 10 trillion dollars so
far as this letter is concerned.

[FreeReign]

Chairman Cox said. “Our pledge lets President Bush and our conferees know that they have full authority to save taxpayers billions of dollars. It creates a House-White House alliance in support of the bipartisan House bill, approved 280-138 on May 24.”

Bumping for later comments.

[hchutch]

The difference is that this is a fight that we can PROBABLY win, whereas the others are ones that would turn into very bloody draws. The key is to pick the fights, and to maximize your advantages while minimizing your vulnerabilities.

It's ugly, and messy, but that's how you have to play the game. Our guys do our principles no good if they lose elections.

[Mudboy Slim]

"If your Representative is on this list, call or email your congratulations and support..."

I'll be meeting my Congressman [#24. Eric Cantor] on Monday and will vocalize my support at that time...great to see GOP folks with some spine to withstand the urge to grow the government uncontrollably.

FReegards...MUD

[R2]

Just let Sam Johnson (R-TX) that I appreciate his effort to limit the budget (although this is peanuts compared to the rampant waste my hard earned tax dollars enable).

I'd love to see Bush trash the Senate.

[SJackson]

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[RedBloodedAmerican]

Right. And if they had spent "only 6 billion", you'd be on her bitchinandmoaning over it.

[anniegetyourgun]

And besides, why should a sideline cynic care anyway?

[The Vast Right Wing]

Alright Jane Harman, you go girl. Uh wait a minute, she's...not...on the list. That list must be inaccurate. I know my representative wants to reign in spending /Sarcasm

[Howlin]

Alas, I have moved into the Red Zone; my representative is NOT on the list! :-(

[AAABEST]

Right. And if they had spent "only 6 billion", you'd be on her bitchinandmoaning over it.

Exactly. I'm not a hypocrite with my little lips sewn to a particular politicians ass. I actually have a consistant political philosophy that doesn't blow in the wind to coincide with a flawed icon's whim de jour.

I'm "bitchingandmoaning" about the same stuff I have been around here for 4 years.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

So really, it doesn't matter to you whether they spend or save. You just like to bitch. What a life!

[RAT Patrol]

Now this makes me happy. My Rep. is hopeless but I can complain anyway.

[poet]

"Our guys do our principles no good if they lose elections."

What good do "our guys" do us if they are copycats and outspend "their guys"? The result is the same, which is to say, more spending by the "good guys" and less spending by the "bad guys" which accomplishes what the "bad guys" want in the first place.