Oh wait. No they don’t. They held a press conference today to tell us they have an outline to a plan that they won’t divulge until next Wednesday on the House floor. Here’s what we got today in the meantime:
WE’RE SORRY.
WE DON’T HAVE
A
BUDGET PLAN.
PLEASE ACCEPT
THIS PIECE
OF PAPER
AS AN I.O.U.
LOOK AT THE BIRDIE!
NICE BIRDIE!
PRETTY BIRDIE!
EVERYONE SEE THE BIRDIE?
PRETTY BIRDIE!
Signed,
The Republican Party
Nice. President Obama is right: The republicans don’t have a budget plan or a plan to fix the economy. Budgets are filled with figures, numbers, and other good stuff so I can’t wait to see and hear what the republicans have to say next week! Let me guess, their plan (that is if they divulge it and aren’t pulling our legs) will be as expensive as President Obama’s, EXCEPT, the money they’ll be spending in the budget will go to tax cuts for the uber wealthy? Oh probably. The republican party is the Party Of No New Ideas. The End.
I had a good laugh today watching Contessa Brewer of MSNBC’s reaction to the republican press conference. The republicans announced earlier in the day that they would be unveiling their plan today, so when the time came and they offered nothing but a brochure that contained an outline (filled with all their usual ridiculous crap that doesn’t stimulate anything except the top 5% of the country), Contessa was livid! I’m serious. She had that, “Wha? That’s it? That’s their plan? Oh for the love of the Spaghetti Monster! These people are REE-DICK-YOU-LUS!”, look on her face. She couldn’t let it go either. About an hour later during another segment, she was still livid with the republicans, because just like most of us, we are tired of the republican shenanigans that they play. Contessa (a Mainer) was pissed and I don’t blame her.
Contessa? Republicans are useless wingnuts. Don’t forget.
Here is their plan :
NO!
or :
“we shall fiddle while America burns.”
That’s the Geithner plan you have outlines there. Not the Republicans.
How does spending trillions of dollars help the ecnomy? How does going further into debt and deficit help the economy? How does saddling the next two or three generations with the most debt ever , from Geo Washington to Geo Bush combined, help the economy?
Why aren’t you pissed at Soros for raking in tons of money with his hedge fund? Is it because he’s a commie just like you kay? You’ve raged against hedge funds in the past but not Soros. Is that because you view everything through your diseased political view?
How does giving tax cuts to the uber wealthy help the economy in stimulating it to get it back on track? That was done for 8 years with two war fronts (George Bush refused to put in these tax cuts or the wars in the budget to make it appear as if he wasn’t spending as much China money!) and look where it got us?
Why are you pissed at Soros? You neocons love people with money, don’t ya?
President Obama’s Press Secretary Robert Gibbs hits the nail on the head when it comes to the republican’s “budget plan”:
My grandparents had a well with a hand pump. To get water to come out, we had to pour some water in the top to “prime it” in order to get new water out. Same goes for our economy. Yes it will cost money to prime it but the returns will come later. If it is done right our children won’t have to pay it. Clinton took a Raygun/Bush #41 deficit of and turned it into a SURPLUS in eight years.
But we have heard these lies before. Two years into Reagan’s presidency, the United States experienced its worst recession since the Great Depression, with unemployment peaking at 10.8 percent (greater than the 8.0% at present). Rather than take responsibility, Reagan attempted to blame the 1982 recession on his predecessor, Jimmy Carter. Sound familiar.
When Carter left office, he left a deficit $78, 976 BILLION to Raygun, which amounted to deficit of 34% of GDP (steady for the last three years of Carter). When Raygun handed off his job to Poppy Bush, he gave his former Vice with a deficit of $152,481 BILLION, 55% of GDP. His last budget in 1989 was $1.144 TRILLION. From the FactCheck.org graph below you can see what Clinton left for his successor, Junior Bush:
http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/during_the_clinton_administration_was_the_federal.html
Seems like you do not understand a responsible budget proposal that actually make sense. Unlike the Obama plan, you can actually read this plan. But it does not have nearly enough PORK and it does not punish success so of course the damocraps don’t like it.
Limits the Federal Budget from Growing Faster
than Family Budgets
Provides Universal Access to Health Care and
Secures Entitlements
Lowers Taxes
Instead of raising taxes on all Americans in the midst of a recession,
Republicans seek to reduce the tax burden on working families and small
businesses, in order to create jobs and unlock private capital.
Keeps Energy and Fuel Costs Low
Ends the Bailouts and Reforms the Financial System
So how will did 8 years of the Bush/Cheney economy work out for you? I lost half of my wealth and my portfolio is totally in NASDAQ that’s fared a bit better. I dread to see what my 401(k) will be next month losing $16K in the last quarter. However, the market has been going UP all week so evidently Obama isn’t scaring off everyone. I hope the market is going up as I am doing my retirement travels by selling stock and maybe I can add a few more trips that are on my bucket list…African safari, and the Orient.
I only had two semesters of economics in college to round out my liberal arts requirements for my majors in science and math. So I have to TRUST that my President will use the top minds in our nation to get us out of the mess he INHERITED, as like he says, IF he fails, he will be only a term president.
skudrunner
on Mar 26th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Limits the Federal Budget from Growing Faster
than Family Budgets
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Bah ha ha ha ha Why are the republican’ts suddenly so concerned about the Federal budget? Oh yeah, they aren’t in power anymore but we are suppose to believe that they are suddenly the party of fiscal responsibility. Yeah, right!
skudrunner
on Mar 26th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Lowers Taxes
Instead of raising taxes on all Americans in the midst of a recession,
Republicans seek to reduce the tax burden on working families and small
businesses, in order to create jobs and unlock private capital.
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Bah ha ha ha! The only taxes the republican’ts want to keep low are the wealthy. They don’t give a phuck about working families or small businesses.
skudrunner
on Mar 26th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Ends the Bailouts and Reforms the Financial System
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End the Bailouts after their guy started the bailouts and would continue to bend over for him if he were still president today. Reform the financial System??? You mean like they did with the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act Of 1999 & The Commodity Futures Modernization Act Of 2000…No thanks republicans we’ve already seen what happens when you restructure the financial system’
Hey Skudly, thanks again for the laughs!. At least you are good for something.
Skudly, how does a budget plan make sense if there are no numbers in it? Huh? We’ll be watching the “big plan” unfold next Wednesday on the floor of the House. Something tells me it will just be a bash fest against President Obama’s budget and the repukes will have nothing to offer. Of course. They’ve never had a plan FOR OVER 200 YEARS.
Rachel Maddow pointed out John Boner saying “Ummmmm, we’ll see” when asked if he and the republicans would be willing to sign on for more bailouts. Say wha? “We’ll see”? But I thought he had said that bailouts were bad and they wouldn’t get near another one with a 10 foot pole? I smell a slight flip flop 10 minutes apart….
The Pelosi recession is hurting a lot of people, me included, but the answer is not spend ourselves out of it and than tax our way to pay for it. If I was living on a fixed income or off my investments, I would have a greater disdain for pelosi than I already do, if that is possible.
You and I want the same think, to keep more of MY hard earned money.
You know you could get a job, after all obama has millions of them available, but that is out of the question isn’t it.
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act Of 1999
And the president was?
I noticed skudly-duddly didn’t have a response to Prophet’s last comment. No surprise there since he’s a will-fully ignorant propagandist, like all trolls who know they talk shit.
I’d rather have a few scraps from Obama’s table than the boot to the face from 8 years of Bu$ho/Cheneyburton, f*ck you very much skid-jock!
The President in 1999 was Clinton but the Congress, in both the House and Senate, was under the control of Republicans. However, Clinton did appoint John D. Hawkes the Comptroller of the Currency in 1998 who ruled that interstate banks had power over state’s banking laws. For example, Arkansas had a 5% ceiling on interest but it was ruled that out-of-state banks could apply the interest rates in another state where they also did business to supercede usury laws of states. So banks set up shop in states like Delaware and South Dakota that had no usury laws so bankcards could charge their exorbitant rates over 30%. Ever notice WHERE you mail your monthly VISA and MasterCard payments?
We now see the results of allowing financial institutions being able to run their businesses THEIR WAY without regulation. We have rules in sports and in about every other aspect of life BUT the financial industries feel RULES are beneath them.
OT: Since down grading cable all I get for cable news is CNN. Lately they have been having 24/7 coverage of as they call it “The war next door” in Mexico.
Question: Why all of the sudden is what has been happening on the border with Mexico at a crisis stage? Yes I believe the Mexican drug cartels are brutal murderous thugs but why all of the sudden have things just “suddenly” escalated?
I just find this curious that this has all suddenly become such a crisis when we have a democratic President in charge now. We heard about the killings and drug smuggling under Bush but it was never presented in the media as a crisis or a war next door but suddenly or magically things escalate three months into Obama’s presidency and….
Now I put on my tin foil hat. For years I have read about drug trafficking by our military and the CIA under Reagan, Bush 41 and Clinton. I’ve read how the CIA runs drugs to finance their psy-ops missions around the globe so that they don’t have to go through congress for funding and have to outline what the money is being used for, etc, etc,
With tin foil hat firmly in place. Could parts of our alphabet government agencies also be partially behind these drug wars in Mexico and is the real reason we are sending more troops into Afghanistan (regardless of reasons told) so that the CIA or military can control part of and profit off of the opium drug trade in that country????
There has been a drastic increase in violence in Mexico for the last year or so. The change in administration in the USA has little to do with what is reported, the violence is just more bold and the killings have risen dramatically.
There has been so much concern that a number of resort areas are hurting because the tourist trade is down so much. I think the US is promoting violence in Mexico so people will spend their money here and they can tax it (that makes as much sense as the CIA being drug runners)
I assume you sleep with one eye open because the boogy man is behind the door.
I assume you sleep with one eye open because the boogy man is behind the door.
LOL!
That’s funny, weren’t right-wingers crying and whining for 8 years that the “evul Muslim turrists” were coming over here to murder us in our own beds if we don’t “fight ‘em over there?”
Gimme a f*ckin’ break!
And BTW, it’s a proven fact that the Bu$hco Criminal Family Organization are drug-runners; http://www.oldamericancentury.org/bushco/bush_crime_family.htm
The whole lot of them should’ve been hung behind the courthouse 100 years ago!
2059 do you ever have anything to say that makes any sense. If memory serves, it was Muslims that hit the trade towers, beheaded civilians, bombed their own people, set fires in subways, rammed US naval.
Guess that doesn’t count
You conspiracy theorists are really a strange bunch. Must be difficult living with the thought that everyone is out to get you. How much do lead rooms go for now days?
How much do lead rooms go for now days?
Dunno, never priced any!
Besides, being a “tinfoil-hat conspiracy theorist” is infinitely better than some right-winger trying to pass off B.S. as truth.
Do you honestly think that cutting taxes for the wealthy has helped the working person?
Do you honestly believe in the totalitarian policies that were passed during the last 8 years?
Either you are in the top 5% of the wealth curve in the US or you’re one of the most dishonest trolls I’ve read in a long time.
BTW, one “conspiracy theory” that has popped up on the news lately is a proposal by China for a “world reserve” currency; http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-03-26-voa9.cfm
And even your reich-wing Wall Street Journal has an article about it; http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123780272456212885.html
One of the basic tenents of establishing a “New World Order”, whether you choose to believe such a thing or not, is the establishment of a global currency.
But you go ahead skidly-diddly, put your rose-colored glasses on, drink your Kool-Ade and do your nightly supplications to St. Ronnie Raygun!
Go ahead and trash me if you want skidly, I’ll catch ya Monday!
Another house seat looking like its being saved for a Democrat:
The 20th district of New York, hitherto, a deeply conservative one, was held by Republics for many many years. When Conservadem Representative Kirsten Gillibrand got “the call” from Gov. Paterson to leave her district behind and serve in the Senate, most observers, quite rationally, believed that the seat would again swing Republic. Republic Jim Tedisco had a huge name-recognition advantage, and it was kind of a given that he’d probably run the table during the campaign. However, Democrat Scott Murphy is polling ahead now, even with negative ads running against him that he is against the death penalty, even for terrorists.
Murphy is running ads where he is being endorsed by President Obama whose coattails are still strong, even in a conservative district of upstate New York.
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/03/27/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry4897178.shtml
The “Pelosi recession”? I see someone is listening to the leader of the republic Party, Ass Limbo of right wing radio fame.
The 2010 budget hasn’t even passed yet wingers! Bah hahahahahahaha!
The vodka drinking, cigarette smoking, prostitute hiring “Muslims” that attacked our nation on 9/11/01 were on Dick Cheney’s payroll. Now Dick is telling us the next attack will be nuclear. Now that Osama bin Laden is dead, someone has to take the reins, so the VP of al-Qaida will! Yep, ole Dick I’m sure is going through suicide bombers as we speak.
Dad2059, President Obama said that he does not like the idea of a one world currency. Geithner said he was opened to it but then said after he didn’t think it was a benefit.
Insidious, you could be right about the CIA. I’m sure Dick Cheney and George H.W. Bush have been in contact. Drugs are profitable and these two jokers most likely are involved somewhere!
Grant, I saw the ad you speak of. Murphy has a good chance of winning.
About this so called “One World Currency” the rightwingers are all up in a frenzy over. It is bullshit!
Geithner is talking about the “Reserve” currency as was China and the UN. There is a HUGE difference between the “Reserve” Currency” and a “One World Currency”
The “Reserve” Currency which has been the US dollar for decades is the currency of choice for international transactions.
A “One World” Currency would be a common currency to be used by all peoples and all nations to buy or sell, etc, etc.
The “Reserve” currency will not eliminate the franc, ruble, the pound, the yen or the US dollar for the countries daily use.
Rightwinger Michele Bachmann asked Geithner if he would be be for a “One World Currency” Geithner said “No” under oath. He is against a one world currency BUT is for a possible change in the “Reserve” currency which has been the US dollar.
Now for anyone to claim that changing the “Reserve” currency is changing it to a “One world currency” is full of crap because that would mean that the US dollar has been the one world currency for decades.
KO said the Republicans are to bring out their real budget on April 1st. and then if it is all smudged or makes no sense, they can laugh and scream, “April Fools!”
The pelosi recession was actually something I believe because she was the leader of the majority party when the recession started in 2007 therefore she gets the credit for the recession.
If you ever look past the hate you will have to admit I am right. Congress writes bills not the president, pelosi was the leader of the greatest fraud in american politics so she get all of the credit for the outcome.
think geitner will get fired this weekend, does obamba have the gonads to admit his mistake?
Here is a link to their “blueprint” which Boner tried to palm off as a budget:
http://www.gop.gov/solutions/budget/road-to-recovery-final
I like that their link includes the word FINAL!
But they are working on it and here is a sneak peek:
http://www.sciencecartoonsplus.com/gallery/math/math07.gif
Insidious, President Obama was asked about the one world currency at his prime time presser the other night and he said he was not for it. Geithner originally said he was open to it, but then a day or two later said it’s not needed or a good idea. He’s flatly rejected it:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0309/Geithner_open_to_China_proposal.html?showall
Skudly, I thought you wingers said George Bush was handed a surplus in 2001 along with a recession? Huh? The economy went right into the crapper when George Bush was selected in 2001 to be president and for years he kept saying, “Everything is fine! Go shopping!”. You don’t know what you’re talking about as usual. The housing crash started in 2002 and by 2005 it was well on it’s way of stagnating. Again, nothing done.
Grant, love the picture you posted to! Exactly. The right wingers are hoping for a ‘miracle’ in creating a budget plan by next Wednesday. What that miracle is….they don’t even know!
Here’s a comment from the link I posted at #26:
“The housing crash started in 2002 and by 2005 it was well on it’s way of stagnating.”
As always you have no clue what you are talking about and you must make up your own statistics because 2007 is when it all started and pelosi was the BIH of the house. When numerous people, both conservative and damocrap, showed concern that there were problems with fannie and freddie. Your boys dodd and frank along with the brilliant maxine, said they were fine institutions. This was a blunder on all sides and, as you know, the president does not write bills that is up to congress so congress was damocrap and it is their recession. Nice try to shift the blame.