I’m not sure how to react yet. It will hopefully be more clear when numbers come out. That huge tax cut sounds great to my personal budget, but it seems like such a large change all at once to be absorbed. I’m curious to see where they will find so much to cut out to make up for all the lost revenue. (not that there isn’t tons of waste in there, but you gotta actually make it happen). Anyways, just curious to see what others have to say…..

Is this the best you’ve got. The only solid number is a surprise a massive tax cut for the wealthy and a smaller cut for everyone else. There’s no hard numbers on spending cuts. There’s no numbers on the projected deficit. There’s nothing to address the ballooning costs of health care.

Their “budget” is a joke. I mean has anyone looked at what they put out?

Come on guys, you cannot put out a campaign brochure and call it a budget!

There are enough smart Republicans out there, why couldn’t they use some of them and come up with a serious alternative budget?

as anything Obama has offered. Everything he offers is idea first, specifics later (much later). His budget is based on completely unrealistic expectations of what the economy will do.

This is what a budget is supposed to be. Spending fit into projected revenue, not projected revenue tarted up to meet wishful spending.

Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and their minions (which includes the MSM) will run around saying some variation/combination of:
- “There is nothing to debate since the Republicans haven’t offered a single idea to debate. Not even one. They are the party of ‘no’.”
- “The only so-called ‘idea’ the Republicans have offered is just more of the same old Bushonomics that got us into this mess to begin with. We had that debate before the American people last November.”

Looks like the Obamatons & Mobys (sorry, “lifelong Republicans”) are out in force again. Pathetic.

that the “budget” is not a budget. It is a priority and framework. But here is what is not acknowledged: the modern federal budget requires a huge bureaucracy in both the Executive branch and in the Legislative branch to generate. Right now, the Republicans control neither of them. It is fiscally unrealistic to create a full budget–particularly when you know that it will not see the light of day and will only be used by your party to make a point. Anyone want to spend a couple million dollars on that?

That is just one of the problems with our runaway federal government.

Of course, I would like to see a 5 page budget that looked something like:

Military-Army $x
Military-Navy $y
….
NPR $0
National Endowment of the Arts $0
Education Department $0

I have been here long enough that you folks know I am not some troll or person who opines without thinking first. However, this budget proposal is good start- that is all. Witness that when people such as Laura Ingraham start to say the Republican budget proposal is weak- you have to listen.

What needs to be done is continuing the detail associated with our proposal. I understand that reviewing this budget is a monumental task and Obama now has an army to perform his handiwork. However, all our resources should be put against providing more details. Throwing out big ideas such as tax cuts instead of tax increases and general philosophy is a commencement point, not a complete proposal.

We should have the budget debate with Mr. Obama and force this issue. But he knows that would take time and shine the light on his ignominious and almost unconscionable proposal- especially on these hard times. Mr. Obama will ultimately not have this debate and therefore win the will or backing of an informed American public. This type of spending and posture is doomed to miserable economic failure. In following, we should make Obama point to an example where this approach has been tried and succeeded; there are none and the sooner our public understands that, the better.

You will not find a bigger proponent of the idea that people such as Paul Ryan represent our future. But if we are unable to consider criticism and determine if it has merits (upstream, wandering, contra intellectual trolls excluded) we will never return to a majority. This country was founded on principals that included tolerance and respect for dissent. What made our founders successful was their ability to focus on a core set of principals and put aside their disagreement to pursue them- no matter the cost.

Republicans, on the other hand, have acted as a collection of groups with parochial interests on which they focus without respect for grander considerations. That has been proven a fleeting coalition, not a movement. That posture failed to recognize the more holistic principals which represent our core values and ultimately provide cohesion. Those basic principals are more appealing, recognizable, relevant and instructive to the public than individual issues which are used to divide us, confuse and obfuscate citizens about our beliefs.

The comprehensive embracement of all our values and accompanying idea that some sacrifice needs to be considered by all will help us achieve future success as a party. That does not mean we become “more like them” as some suggest. It simply means we become “more like us’- a group identified by steadfast fealty to the Constitution, capitalistic economic principals, respect for family values and smaller government that serves the people, not one that dictates and confiscates their livelihood. This, my friends is the key to success. Without such basic thoughts and pursuits we are destined to live a life in the wilderness.

Sorry to be so prolix.