3 January 2007 - 10:25pm
Bush flops on budget, sets agenda for next president (again)
Now that the GOP hogfest at the pork trough is over, the profligate President Bush has decided to play at being a fiscal conservative:
President Bush on Wednesday challenged Democrats taking over Congress to join him in balancing the budget within five years and urged them to cut thousands of pet projects from future spending bills.
Whose "pet projects" is he talking about? After all, the Republicans have been running Congress. Does he really want to cut all the Republican "pet projects"? Will the profligate Republicans still in office go along with axing their earmarks?
Of course, since they were too busy -- or just plain lazy -- to be bothered with passing any spending bills for the 2007 fiscal year, the Democratic-run Congress will have to mop up the mess from last year's Republican-run Congress as well.
He talks about balancing the federal budget without mentioning that he was handed a balanced budget when he took office, mentions No Child Left Behind without mentioning what a failure that is, and mentions the USA PATRIOT Act (let’s not forget it’s a clever acronym) without mentioning what an affront it is to the principles upon which this great nation was founded.
The Bush cheerleaders have suddenly gotten the balanced budget religion, too. They love their hero.
As we knows, Democrats are only committed to increasing their power, not working with Republicans for the greater good.
And Cheney, Ney, DeLay, Abramoff, Libby, Bush, et al. are all selfless public servants. Uh huh.
TexasFreds has a more honest response:
Bush must be drinking again… A balanced budget?? In 5 years?? And he has 2 years left?? And he expects a Dem controlled Congress to spend LESS money than his Republican controlled Congress spent?? Maybe he’s NOT drinking, looks more like he has just lost his mind…
As Capitol Hill Blue reports, Bush also wants to make his tax cuts for the rich permanent. The corporate executives need a break, ya know?
In the Chicago Tribune Swamp, Mark Silva writes:
Bush took aim at "dead-of-the-night'' budget deals that funnel billions of dollars to special projects without any oversight, and he vowed that the government will produce a balanced budget by 2012 -- four years after he leaves office.
Bush is good at that -- starting things he can't finish. One might say it's his specialty.
Frankly, I'm surprised Bush even brought the subject up. After all, we had not only a balanced budget, but a budget surplus, when Bush took office. And now he wants the Democrats to clean up after his mess.
Just like the Democratic leadership of Bill Clinton led to the cleaning up of the similar budgetary mess left by Ronald Reagan and George the Elder, even while the GOP-run House was obsessing over The Blow Job.
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Curiously...not at all, the Republicans are now whining that the Democrat's idea of Pay As You Go, meaning any new spending has to be funded, and not with borrowed money, has the Republicans whining about it being fiscally irresponsible. The Republicans took total control of the government, turned a projected five trillion dollar surplus into a massive deficit, and gave us earmarks like Ted Stevens' $230 million Bridge To Nowhere, and on the second day that Democrats are in office, they are screaming that the Democrats are irresponsible and don't do the right thing about spending.
Yeah, I'll trust them with the budget. Sure. Buncha thieves.
Let's face it they're all a bunch of thieves, doesn't matter which side of the aisle they're on. Here's a tidbit- we have record tax revenues and record deficets.Do the math. In case any of you are wondering why the democrats won. It's because people like me, a Rerpublican for 30 years, didn't bother to vote. Our party needs a good butt whipping, then maybe they'll get straight.In fact, most of congress could use one.I'm staying republican because the only way to effect change is from the inside out.
But as Bill Maher says, the people the Democrats have sold out to are slightly less scary than the people the Republicans have sold out to.
You may have a point media girl, It's just that I think that we make too many apologies for our own particular parties. Democrats (like Bill Maher) make every excuse for Democrats and Republicans do the same (if not more so) my point is that as a lifelong Republican I began screaming for Tom DeLay's head 4 years ago! We'll see real progress only when we start holding our own party's feet to the fire! They all seem to ignore us so long as they think they have our votes in their back pockets.
this is the ownership society. those who own things are the society. the rest of us don't matter.