White House reaction to the non-Republican budget : "This is a joke"
By scarce Thursday Apr 02, 2009 12:36pmRob Nabors, Deputy Director for Management and Budget, gives his no-nonsense take on the so-called Republican alternative budget proposed by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI).
DNC leader Tim Kaine was just as dismissive yesterday.
"The House GOP budget would be just an April Fool’s day joke if it didn’t actually reflect the true priorities of House Republicans and what they would do if they had the votes in Congress to pass their own plan. Their budget relies on the failed economic policies that drove the U.S. economy into its deepest spiral in decades," he said in a statement.
"If House Republicans had their way and the budget they outlined today were adopted, President Obama’s economic recovery program, which is already saving and creating jobs throughout the country, would be gutted, Medicare as we know it would all but be all but eliminated, Social Security checks would be slashed and a proposed spending freeze on discretionary programs would cut essential services – from health care and support for veterans to education to job training - that Americans most depend on when the economy is in crisis."
The Wall Street Journal gave the ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee high visibility to feature their nonsense yesterday, an April Fool's joke.
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The republicans just did not think this through. First they trotted out their little pamphlet of a plan a week ago. Then they got out their abacus and drew up this piece of shit budget. They decided to make this public on April Fools Day. Bottom line, if you are going to try to be serious when doing something stupid, don’t plan to do it on April Fools Day.
is recycling Rove's old strategies.
I think it's clear that he's not directing their overall strategy anymore.
They're using the old books, the old strategies.
Their problem is no one reads a trashy novel twice.
The GOP's Reagan Revolution "strategy book" has been resigned to the consignment shop of history.
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The Wall Street Journal gave the ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee high visibility to feature their nonsense yesterday, an April Fool's joke.
Remind me again. Who owns the WSJ?
Look at that Fox headline: "GOP Budget gives priority to national defense and veteran health care."
How is this channel seriously considered to be a "news" channel? I hate that Dems go on there, ever.
McCain was on tv today with his own budget which he says includes more health care for vets. I guess he saw this omission in the republican budget and decided to run with it to get some attention and stroke his own ego.
The GOP has no respect for Obama. The President has all the momentum and is is time for him to very forcefully let these bastrards know who is in charge. This Republican alternative budget isn't a joke...it's an insult.
When you're opponent is in the process of immolating himself...you don't throw gasoline...you also don't hand him a bucket of water.
These assholes are serious. The only parallel here is that it is April and the GOP is a pack of fools.
we have to ask them how their plan would create more jobs and balance the budget. Their answer would be the same as what it was for the last 8 years. We already tried that and how did that work out for you America?
April fools has past Repigs are the fools at last. or still
and I can understand why, at face value. at face value, the budget looks positioned to slowly ease the US out of our financial troubles with slow, deliberate, careful spending within our means.
which - well - makes sense. at face value.
the problem is - we have a population explosion, and a serious problem with debt and lack of care for the majority of our constituents. and the republican budget doesn't take that into account.
it presumes there will be an "honor system".
it presumes that students will continue to learn and advance themselves into the 21st century, with limited educational funding, because every parent will just, you know, do a good job and help the kid out at home with their home PCs. rather than position the workforce of 2020 for success, by upgrading their classrooms and increasing the number of their classrooms.
it presumes that the 1 in 7 Americans not covered by private healthcare will not grow at all between now and 2019 - in spite of Americans losing their jobs at a record pace. it presumes that no additional funding for Medicaid and other public healthcare plans will need no additional funding.
it presumes that in spite of badly failing in both the PR and the real war fronts which the Bush Administration placed us in ... that Iraq and Afghanistan are the only two places where soldiers will be needed... that nobody will attack us and that none of our allies will beg for our assistance.
it presumes that our border patrol is fine just the way it is.
it presumes that our roads and that our infrastructure are still in good enough shape and won't need any major improvements until at least 2019.
the Republican budget does not budget for increasing costs. which I think is the bitterest pill for the GOP to swallow. this economic mess which we're in... is mathematically guaranteed... to get significantly worse.
President Obama's budget, budgets for the kinds of "unexpected" problems I've just outlined, and many more. the Republican budget presumes, that things are the worst they can get right now. that we've hit rock bottom. and that nothing else bad will happen to our economy or our infrastructure.
reading comments on the WSJ article which SCARCE linked to, I see a lot of stoid, baby-booming-aged city-slicking Republicans are applauding the Republican budget for attempting to move the checkbook back into the black. which is commendable.
but I for one think thats a very very naive assumption, to assume that things won't get worse before they get better. so while I know President Obama's budget is a much much bigger loan that my son will need to pay off.... I still applaud President Obama's willingness to acknowledge the realities of what could very well come to pass in 2009, 2010, and further.
After all, the non-Republican budget would be ... the Democrats' budget?
That's all.
a lot of republicans have been hungry to look relevant and intellectual again. you know? the last 8 years was like the keystone cops slingin crack rock. =\
so they come up with this budget ... release it a week too early, but whatever ... come up with this budget with smaller numbers. fiscally aggressive numbers. numbers that - at face value - look down right .... well .... intellectual.
so thats what I'm saying, a lot of Republicans are all about this alternative budget. but its sad. it doesn't actually "budget" ahead for obvious, impending problems. it just budgets the current state of affairs. next major storm or fire we have, and the Republican budget is lookin' useless.
and the way they run their Fox/Repug talking points bullshit while the man is trying to give his views on Dem points....If they were the only paper left in this world I would prefer to wipe my ass with razor-wire
Cheer for your team.
I would agree that we need a budget that costs less. Or, we need a budget that does more for the costs being proposed.
Military spending is a boondoggle where we spend 50¢ of every dollar spent in the world on defense. It's about $650B not including the war in Iraq or Afghanistan. The Republicans have been whipping this paranoia about a myriad of threats, whereas, I think we face one principle immediate threat, which is Islamic extremists desiring to possess and explode a nuclear bomb. But some of these other programs, such as a missile defense shield in Poland to defend against the non-existent Iranian missile threat, is simply a waste of money and angers the Russians. We get rid of that, and all of a sudden, we'll be getting Russian assistance in Afghanistan, where they're very concerned. The defense spending has been stupid and can be cut.
Medical coverage can be had for all, simply by copying a cost structure similar to that used in Europe and Japan, ie, "single payer". The increased costs proposed by Obama is because he wants to maintain the corporate profit model and cover the uninsured.
I think it's time for Obama to talk to the parasitic financial industries in language they would understand. They need to be told that if they damage the host to the degree that the host is dead, that the parasite dies too. In other words, they have to reduce their short term rip-off objectives in order to have more favorable long-term rip-off results.
I think our biggest problem is corporate control of our government, and the budget reflects that, particularly in health and defense.
"This is our REAL budget...it's TOTALLY different and represents the direction of the NEW INCLUSIVE Republican party...wait till you hear the details!!!"
1) cuts on capital gains tax for wealthy investors
2) increased spending on no-bid military contracts
3) cuts to government regulators across the board, especially in the finance sector
4) massive cuts to spending in the areas of bloated government, like public schools and infrastructure spending, particularly levees and bridges
There ya have it folks. No joke! We're the NEW Republican party. Totally different from the one that brought you the New New Orleans and the New Great Depression!!!
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