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A. Doer| 8.9.11 @ 3:00PM
My understanding is that the House has six Appropriations bills outstanding. On all six bills, it should approve significantly less than the limits allow. If conservatives choose their cuts carefully, the left will be forced to explain why, in a time of a ratings downgrade, they want to spend more money on bridges to nowhere, museums for silly things, programs that don’t work, and bureaucrats who won’t work.
Pick one of those bills and come up with a significant total dollar amount in specific things you propose to cut under loony lefty categories like bridges to nowhere, museums for silly things, programs that don’t work, and bureaucrats who won’t work.
A. Doer| 8.9.11 @ 3:08PM
This may help:
http://thomas.loc.gov/home/approp/app12.html
darcy| 8.9.11 @ 3:14PM
If the House will not exert themselves here to achieve REAL cuts, then we will know that, as Trent Lott has said, the conservatives have been duly "co-opted" by his cronies, the power sharers -- aka the establishment scum.
PattyMor| 8.9.11 @ 3:40PM
Why can't the Rat Party communicate and negotitate effectively? Are they just too corrupt? Just too stupid? Just don't care? Or, are they being blackmailed? Or are they really liberals but pretend otherwise?
Harry Reid can't defend Cowboy Poetry, NPR, PBS, NEA, Planned Parenthood, or uselesss university studies. So why don't they get someone to read the list of DemonCrap Pork and belittle these people? We KNOW we can't shame them. Make them defend it. Make them OWN it.
Oldefarte| 8.9.11 @ 4:03PM
Teh Republicans, due to their minority status/numbers, simply must continue the good fight until next November when we voters exert our moral duty to vote to increase the number of Republicans in the Senate and for a Republican president [at which time, not only a slowdown of spending but a complete reversal of spending into huge reductions will be possible due to the majority status of Republicans]!!!!!
darcy| 8.9.11 @ 4:27PM
Are these the same Republicans, who when they had majorities in the House and Senate, got on board with President Bush's Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit plan in 2005? the cost of which is estimated to be in excess of 1.2 Trillion dollars?
You see, Oldefarte, unless the Republican Party abandons its big government, power-sharing, elitist establishment mentality, the only thing the bug eyes in the Republican Party will see with Congressional majorities and a Republican president in 2012 is carte blanche sanction to remake the nation in THEIR image, which is just a few notches less communistic than their so-called rivals, the Democrats.
Now let me just ask you: Is this the kind of Republican Party you want to help elect? The one in which former Senator Lott, now a well-healed lobbyist, promised of rookie conservative House members that they would be "co-opted." You know, made to get in line with the Washington way of doing things?
There is not going to be any kicking of Democrat butt if a Republican majority is comprised of a majority of RINOs. You can take that to the bank.
c. j. acworth| 8.9.11 @ 6:32PM
All during the fight over the debt limit I was asking myself why everyone thought we had to spend up to whatever the limit was. Spending bills have to originate in the House, right? So whatever the debt limit is, a Republican-controlled House that is SERIOUS about holding down spending will simply refuse to spend. Make the Dems and the Dear Leader justify every last nickel to the public, see what it gets them. Of course, if the Repubs DO spend up to the limit, well, then we'll know how serious they really are, whatever they say on the Sunday talk circut. "By their fruits you shall know them."