I just want spending slashed. This deficit spending is bleeding America dry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vkTQErQWko

for every two week extension.

My gut reaction was they need to pass the real budget. But that’s influenced by two personal things. First off, I’m now a contractor which means until they pass a budget I’m always going to be two weeks away from living on my savings for an indeterminate amount of time. Secondly, my roommate is an actual Fed who works in an R&D branch for the military. CRs are poison to R&D because they continue at last years funding for each project. The whole point of R&D is that some projects are spinning up while others are spinning down. And while the country as a whole suffers from the missallocated R&D money, the two of us living on savings will be in better shape than others in the country who are out of a job and looking for work. Well, at least for a few weeks and even after that we’ll only be in the same boat.

When Krauthammer pointed out that the 4 billion every two weeks works out to the $100 billion promised over the course of a year I realized it might work out better than the current plan. Also, by passing the cuts in smaller chunks, it is easier to peel of Dems to support any given proposal. The other thing to remember is that the debt ceiling is coming into play shortly too. If Republicans play that one as a 2 week or 30 day revolver with spending cuts attached to each one they can speed up the budget cutting process. Think of it as killing spending one paper cut at a time.

I don’t expect it to last because I expect the Dems to eventually realized the corner they’ve painted themselves into. At which point I’m fully expecting them to go into fleebagger mode in DC. But I don’t see how that gains them anything with voters for 2012. They’ve gotten themselves into a real pickle. I’m really happy I’m not one of them trying to figure out how to get out of it.

get real!

And I’ll just remember to add the tag.

(DeMint is the awesome in the Senate – want to see him succeed Reid)
(ACU ratings are useful for lining my litter box and not much else)

Mew

Bill S gives you a pass that you were just kidding that DeMint is a squish. You add this comment that you were just trying to be funny. Then you go right back at DeMint for his bad vote because he didn’t take the position of Paul and Lee. I was always under the impression that the Heritage Foundation was a Reagan supporting site, and has done great work with the policies of Reagan. If I am not mistaken, Paul and Lee are both Libertarians, elected for no other reason than for their fiscal policies, that are not even feasible in the current Congress. To call DeMint a squish, whether in jest or not, is so wrongheaded it’s in itself pathetic. It sure seems that some are trying to embarass DeMint into what some want him to be, when he has already broken that conservative ground before. I see it as DeMint being co-opted and forced by a few.

One or two more 2-week CR’s with reductions is the most that should be ‘allowed’ until they force the dem hand.
2012 is going to be the REAL battle – with a REAL opportunity to make some serious spending cuts.

Of course, 61 Billion, 100 Billion or 200 Billion in cuts isn’t going to do anything to make a dent in the deficit unless we get the economy growing. The passage of H.R. 4 (rescinding 1099 reporting for Obamacare) tody will probably do more for the defecit than any cuts that get approved.

Threatening shutdowns on those two issues would split the Dems. If the GOP would just get a spine it would have a chance but…

First get this bill out of the way, then focus on more important matters-like deregulation and the small buisness tax credit. An expanding economy and lower unemployment will enable us to go after reducing the number of employees in the next budget (and increased revenues and shrinking deficitwon’t hurt).

Of course we need entitlement reform or no amount of discresionary spending cuts are going to matter.