In Order To Spend Less…

I wish...

dhoerster (Diary) Tuesday, January 17th at 8:52AM EST (link)

….the entire front page could be filled with this Toby Toon. Oh wait….it is! Miracles do happen!

Still thinking of voting for One-bama?

NickDeringer (Diary) Tuesday, January 17th at 9:07AM EST (link)

It’s time to wake up. This story (cartoon) is a great illustration why all those who say they will vote for One-bama if Romney is the candidate are simply morons.

NickDeringer

As if that weren't self-evident (nt)

jakeofalltrades (Diary) Tuesday, January 17th at 9:13AM EST (link)

Per Newsweek, what's another trillion$.

johnt Tuesday, January 17th at 10:08AM EST (link)

it’s the intelligent[?] thing to do.
Spend money, grab power, be smart. Simple.

“a man’s admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him”. Tocqueville

I almost used a similar term.

TobyToons (Diary) Tuesday, January 17th at 10:46AM EST (link)

“What’s another $1.2 Trillion among friends?”

“There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.” -Adam Smith

Just remember

anjinconsulting Tuesday, January 17th at 10:55AM EST (link)

Captain Zero cant do it alone…yet. The US hasn’t become a Banana Republic…yet. He still needs the consent from the insane clown circus in the legislature. Sigh…. I guess we are without any hope of fiscal sanity.

Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. – George Santayana

No man has any more intrinsic right to offical station than another. Those who hold government jobs for a long time are apt to acquire a habit of looking with indifference upon the public interests, and of tolerating conduct from which an unpracticed man would revolt. – Andrew Jackson

Who is it that writes the budget?

suzieQ (Diary) Tuesday, January 17th at 11:15AM EST (link)

It’s not the president. And the senate hasn’t passed a budget since … I stopped counting but it’s like a thousand days or so.

The House controls the purse strings. The House sets the budget. The House is in charge of spending. The GOP owns the House. And the 53 dems in the Senate can’t do anything without having at least a handful of republicans going along to get along.

So, if we want to complain about spending, it is our own party where the blame lies. Time to start holding some feet to the fire.

Romney: Spending cuts slow economic growth
Mitt Romney expanded access to abortion and gave Planned Parenthood new rights under state law
Mitt Romney’s environmental appointees now in the Obama White House
Mitt Romney will not repeal Obamacare
Gun Owners Of America on Mitt Romney’s Anti-gun Record

Wrong in the first sentence, suzieQ.

acat (Diary) Tuesday, January 17th at 11:34AM EST (link)

The President writes the budget and submits it to Congress.

Yes, Congress has the constitutional authority to enact the budget, but .. they don’t write it. They just scribble all over the one the President submits.

They could, in theory, throw it out and write a new one…. but that’s a huge duplication of effort because they would still need to know what the reasonable expenses of each agency are…

Mew

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So, in other words

suzieQ (Diary) Tuesday, January 17th at 11:45AM EST (link)

The House must go along with the president in order to pass his budget. I’m still not seeing any scenario where the president or senate have been running huge spending bills and the poor little helpless GOP is unable to stop them. The president only gets his money if the House gives it to him.

Romney: Spending cuts slow economic growth
Mitt Romney expanded access to abortion and gave Planned Parenthood new rights under state law
Mitt Romney’s environmental appointees now in the Obama White House
Mitt Romney will not repeal Obamacare
Gun Owners Of America on Mitt Romney’s Anti-gun Record

How tightly controlled are the GOP reps suzieQ ...?

acat (Diary) Tuesday, January 17th at 12:22PM EST (link)

There are a lot more statists who like increasing the size of the Fed for their purposes, whose goal is to drive the government behemoth who have Rs after their names than we should like.

In short, there are enough Rs who will cross the aisle and vote with the Dems to give the President his money – the 2011 session is crystal clear on this point.

You are absolutely correct about holding GOP feet to the fire.

Mew

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I knew I've always liked you :)

suzieQ (Diary) Tuesday, January 17th at 2:36PM EST (link)

n/t

Romney: Spending cuts slow economic growth
Mitt Romney expanded access to abortion and gave Planned Parenthood new rights under state law
Mitt Romney’s environmental appointees now in the Obama White House
Mitt Romney will not repeal Obamacare
Gun Owners Of America on Mitt Romney’s Anti-gun Record

yet another obvious misunderstanding of the debt ceiling

calivancouver Tuesday, January 17th at 1:51PM EST (link)

The tab was run up when congress appropriated the funds. that congress included the GOP controlled House and the GOP – addled Senate. the time to complain was then, when your folks agreed to this.

Why do you object so vociferously on paying the bills?