Shutdowns, Budgets, and Babies
THE DEAL: The devil always lurks in the dirty details and, as specifics emerge on last Friday night’s eleventh hour settlement of the budget stalemate and threat of a government shutdown, it’s becoming clearer by the day that Republicans were snookered–again. President Barack Hussein Obama may have been the primary snookerer but Speaker John Boehner earned the prize as head of the snookered.
It was made to appear by both sides of the aisle that the spirit of compromise, the essence of politics, carried the night. By Saturday, the president was taking credit for cutting spending by “historic” amounts, the GOP was gloating that it had cut $38.5 billion from a bloated budget, and there was peace and tranquility on Capitol Hill.
Call it smoke and mirrors or compromise, it all boils down to distortions and lies.
Obama was hauled kicking and screaming to the cuts, the Republicans had sold out their original demands for $100 billion in spending, the deficit had already increased 15.7% or by $829 billion in the first half of fiscal 2011, the IMF is issuing warnings on the credibility of America’s borrowing, and the GOP demonstrated by its capitulation on Friday that all its noises about cutting Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security entitlements and the nation’s crippling $14 trillion long-term public debt were just that, noises lacking substance.
The party of fiscal integrity has lost one more strategic battle and its general, John Boehner, in office twenty years now, has proven he is just another old Washington hack, part of the problem devoid of any solutions.
It will be a busy, and challenging, rest of the week for the Speaker. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4127)
Showing posts with label shutdown. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shutdown. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Friday, April 8, 2011
Cojones, Nazis, and Abortion: Related Stories
Cojones, Nazis, and Abortion: Related Stories
THE COJONES OF THE MONTH AWARD: Call it Doublespeak, Newspeak, Oldspeak or just plain Hypocritical-deceptive-speak, our president is a master at it.
I guess Obama felt that his cancellation of yet another vacation to Williamsburg so he could be in D.C. for the final, critical congressional talks on preventing a shutdown of many governmental functions earned him the authority to obliquely take credit for the, literally, eleventh hour compromise struck by Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader Reid.
Terming the budget deal a settlement ”that invests in our future while making the largest annual spending cut in our history”and grandiosely saying, “Today, Americans of different beliefs came together again,” Obama neglected to mention he had wanted no part of any cuts although he did concede he would “not have made [the deal] in better circumstances,” meaning he had no other option than to agree to the 6-day stopgap measure.
The POTUS reached the apogee of his hypocrisy with the line, “But beginning to live within our means is the only way to protect those investments that will help America compete for new jobs.”
Good grief!
The president now wants us “to live within our means”? When did he arrive at that fiscal epiphany? Around 11:20 Thursday night, certainly not before as our spendthrift leader has rolled up unprecedented deficits and debts.
Also trying to glom some kudos for acting somewhat like an adult who won’t spend money the government doesn’t have, Harry Reid called the agreement, which will curtail government spending by $600 billion over the next decade, “historic.”
With federal debt now approaching $14.2 trillion, the piddling cuts entailed in the settlement are hardly “historic.” What will make history are the coming $4 to $6 trillion reductions and fundamental reforms in the proposed 2012 budget. Based on the inflammatory rhetoric of the last Democrat Party eruptions, that battle should be very ugly.
KILLING WOMEN: Did you know that the 2010 Republican landslide didn’t simply change the liberal, Democrat complexion and stranglehold on the House of Representatives. Those new, conservative, mostly Tea Party Republicans are also woman-hating Nazis?
So says and thinks Rep. Louise Slaughter . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4100)
THE COJONES OF THE MONTH AWARD: Call it Doublespeak, Newspeak, Oldspeak or just plain Hypocritical-deceptive-speak, our president is a master at it.
I guess Obama felt that his cancellation of yet another vacation to Williamsburg so he could be in D.C. for the final, critical congressional talks on preventing a shutdown of many governmental functions earned him the authority to obliquely take credit for the, literally, eleventh hour compromise struck by Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader Reid.
Terming the budget deal a settlement ”that invests in our future while making the largest annual spending cut in our history”and grandiosely saying, “Today, Americans of different beliefs came together again,” Obama neglected to mention he had wanted no part of any cuts although he did concede he would “not have made [the deal] in better circumstances,” meaning he had no other option than to agree to the 6-day stopgap measure.
The POTUS reached the apogee of his hypocrisy with the line, “But beginning to live within our means is the only way to protect those investments that will help America compete for new jobs.”
Good grief!
The president now wants us “to live within our means”? When did he arrive at that fiscal epiphany? Around 11:20 Thursday night, certainly not before as our spendthrift leader has rolled up unprecedented deficits and debts.
Also trying to glom some kudos for acting somewhat like an adult who won’t spend money the government doesn’t have, Harry Reid called the agreement, which will curtail government spending by $600 billion over the next decade, “historic.”
With federal debt now approaching $14.2 trillion, the piddling cuts entailed in the settlement are hardly “historic.” What will make history are the coming $4 to $6 trillion reductions and fundamental reforms in the proposed 2012 budget. Based on the inflammatory rhetoric of the last Democrat Party eruptions, that battle should be very ugly.
KILLING WOMEN: Did you know that the 2010 Republican landslide didn’t simply change the liberal, Democrat complexion and stranglehold on the House of Representatives. Those new, conservative, mostly Tea Party Republicans are also woman-hating Nazis?
So says and thinks Rep. Louise Slaughter . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4100)
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Shutdowns and Charades in Washington
Shutdowns and Charades in Washington
What passes for a government in Washington is in chaos as lawmakers debate the budget, the deficit, and a possible government shutdown and the president, when he’s in town, takes potshots at Republicans by calling a bill providing for paying the military ”a distraction.”
The GOP House of Representatives passed another continuing resolution on Thursday to keep the government in business–for a week. The Democrat Senate still has to pass it. The president has vowed to veto it. However, since he and the family may be off again to Williamsburg this weekend on their umpteenth vacation trip, who knows?
Things couldn’t be any more farcical in a banana republic.
Are the Dems paying attention?
The budget is stalemated due to the ineptitude and cowardice of former Speaker Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Reid.
They could have and should have passed the 2011 federal budget in the last session of congress when Democrats controlled the House, Senate, and the presidency and it would already be law. Instead, they chose to diddle and dawdle rather than making some hard spending decisions so that Republicans would be saddled with those choices and have the shutdown albatross hung around their necks.
If Democrats haven’t noticed, the country is on the fiscal ropes. We owe $14 trillion to various people, we borrow 40 cents for every dollar we spend, we’re running a $830 billion deficit, ($113 billion more than last year at this time), and Democrats are quibbling over $12 billion in cuts? Then, adding insult to injury, our flip president flips off a citizenry struggling with a recession, unemployment, and gasoline prices well through the roof by advising motorists to “Think about a trade-in”?
May they eat their cake, too?
As far as fiscal sanity is concerned, Democrats haven’t seen nothin’ yet! If they get their panties in a wad over $12 billion, what are they going to say and do when Rep. Paul Ryan (R, WI) presents his proposals for fiscal 2012 and beyond? . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4095)
What passes for a government in Washington is in chaos as lawmakers debate the budget, the deficit, and a possible government shutdown and the president, when he’s in town, takes potshots at Republicans by calling a bill providing for paying the military ”a distraction.”
The GOP House of Representatives passed another continuing resolution on Thursday to keep the government in business–for a week. The Democrat Senate still has to pass it. The president has vowed to veto it. However, since he and the family may be off again to Williamsburg this weekend on their umpteenth vacation trip, who knows?
Things couldn’t be any more farcical in a banana republic.
Are the Dems paying attention?
The budget is stalemated due to the ineptitude and cowardice of former Speaker Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Reid.
They could have and should have passed the 2011 federal budget in the last session of congress when Democrats controlled the House, Senate, and the presidency and it would already be law. Instead, they chose to diddle and dawdle rather than making some hard spending decisions so that Republicans would be saddled with those choices and have the shutdown albatross hung around their necks.
If Democrats haven’t noticed, the country is on the fiscal ropes. We owe $14 trillion to various people, we borrow 40 cents for every dollar we spend, we’re running a $830 billion deficit, ($113 billion more than last year at this time), and Democrats are quibbling over $12 billion in cuts? Then, adding insult to injury, our flip president flips off a citizenry struggling with a recession, unemployment, and gasoline prices well through the roof by advising motorists to “Think about a trade-in”?
May they eat their cake, too?
As far as fiscal sanity is concerned, Democrats haven’t seen nothin’ yet! If they get their panties in a wad over $12 billion, what are they going to say and do when Rep. Paul Ryan (R, WI) presents his proposals for fiscal 2012 and beyond? . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4095)
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