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House GOP Leaders Set to Cut Spending (DeLay Mea Culpa)
Washington Post ^
| October 17, 2005
| Jonathan Weisman
Posted on 10/16/2005 10:08:15 PM PDT by RWR8189
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posted on
10/16/2005 10:08:18 PM PDT
by
RWR8189
To: Gipper08
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posted on
10/16/2005 10:13:04 PM PDT
by
Stellar Dendrite
( Mike Pence for President!!! http://acuf.org/issues/issue34/050415pol.asp)
To: RWR8189
I guess the leadership missed Dick Armey.
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posted on
10/16/2005 10:15:30 PM PDT
by
RobbyS
( CHIRHO)
To: RWR8189
to cut as much as $50 billion from the fiscal 2006 budget for health care for the poor, food stamps and farm supports, as well as considering across-the-board cuts in other programs.Purely in economic terms -- in terms of money saved -- it might be better to start by reexamining some of the no-bid contracts awarded for Iraq and the Hurricane Katrina cleanup, and then pork barrel projects (you know who you are Mr. Stevens), before we start going for the chump change (in relative terms) that is Medicaid and food stamps. Again, this is just purely in economic terms -- we'd get more bang for the buck by starting with the really big ticket items first.
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posted on
10/16/2005 10:25:35 PM PDT
by
mumps
To: RobbyS
"I guess the leadership missed Dick Armey."
I know I don't!
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posted on
10/16/2005 10:37:39 PM PDT
by
NapkinUser
("It is a damn poor mind indeed which can think of only one way to spell a word." -Andrew Jackson)
To: RWR8189
"You guys filled a void in the leadership."
---
FR will do it. :)
Keep their feet to the fire. We don't just want 'cuts' we want to slash and burn!
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posted on
10/16/2005 11:14:44 PM PDT
by
traviskicks
(http://www.neoperspectives.com/secondaryproblemsofsocialism.htm)
To: RWR8189
I guess increasing cuts from 35 to 50 billion isnt a bad start although a 15 billion dollar increase is measly compared to the actual budget 15/2300 is barely over half a percent cut. Better than nothing i suppose, although i would imagine we'd get rid of this deficit if we just rolled back the medicare entitlement.
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posted on
10/16/2005 11:25:36 PM PDT
by
SDGOP
To: RWR8189
About time! It is a start now lets start really cutting. Lets give the Democrats something to howl about. For the last 5 years the Republicans tried to gain votes by buying the voters off. The blacks have not budged, The elderly can not even understand the drug benefit. they are too use to one choice. So what has the out of control spending gotten the Republican leadership? Nothing but the scorn of the conservatives who helped put then in office. I'm tired of being a compassionate conservative. It gets us nowhere. Let's gut the government. I would love to see the 2008 budget below 2.0 trillion.
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posted on
10/17/2005 1:13:10 AM PDT
by
unseen
To: RWR8189
These turds in D.C. need to quit spending my money.
Hell what's the difference at this point between dems and repubs?
They both spend my money like it was theirs.
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posted on
10/17/2005 3:27:21 AM PDT
by
Joe Boucher
(an enemy of islam)
To: Joe Boucher
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posted on
10/17/2005 5:08:02 AM PDT
by
olrtex
To: RWR8189
Killing the new Bush entitlements would be a good start.
Can you believe a GOP President and Congress enacted a *new* entitlement???
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posted on
10/17/2005 5:12:23 AM PDT
by
Panic in the Streets
("Mayor, I've confirmed the data, the hippies ARE planning a massive jam band concert!"- Eric Cartman)
To: traviskicks
I've been saying for awhile that Senators and Congressmen should be paid bonuses. They should personally get $1,000,000.00 bonuses for each 2.5% federal budget they are able to reduce.
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posted on
10/17/2005 7:46:30 AM PDT
by
xrp
(Conservative votes are to Republicans what 90% of black votes are to Democrats (taken for granted))
To: xrp
lol, thats the best idea I've heard in a long time.
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posted on
10/17/2005 8:23:35 AM PDT
by
traviskicks
(http://www.neoperspectives.com/secondaryproblemsofsocialism.htm)
To: Txsleuth; ovrtaxt; Justanobody; Happy2BMe; sam_whiskey; Scholastic; nonliberal; writer33; ...
"But faced with a revolt among many conservatives sharply critical of him for resisting spending cuts, DeLay three weeks later told a closed meeting of the House Republican Conference, "I failed you," according to a number of House members and GOP aides. Then, in a nod to the most hard-core conservatives, DeLay volunteered, "You guys filled a void in the leadership.""
"No one wants to have an argument with friends, but that argument facilitated the debate that led to the package [of cuts] that [House Speaker J. Dennis] Hastert has now put out there," said Rep. Mike Pence (Ind.), chairman of the RSC and leading proponent of cuts to offset new government spending.
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posted on
10/17/2005 8:49:38 AM PDT
by
Gipper08
(Mike Pence in 2008)
To: xrp
I bet we'd see a balanced budget PDQ.
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posted on
10/17/2005 8:52:15 AM PDT
by
RockinRight
(I am beginning to think conservatism is buried somewhere under New Orleans' mud...)
To: xrp
OMG!! Heck, make it $250K and they'd do it. Right now the lobbyists have the power, not the people.
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posted on
10/17/2005 9:06:28 AM PDT
by
mosquitobite
(What we permit; we promote. ~ Mark Sanford for President!)
To: NapkinUser
"I guess the leadership missed Dick Armey."
I know I don't!" I suggest you use that napkin. As far as I am concerned, you have egg all over your face.
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posted on
10/17/2005 9:55:45 AM PDT
by
Reaganghost
(Democrats are living proof that you can fool some of the people all of the time.)
To: RWR8189
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posted on
10/17/2005 9:56:24 AM PDT
by
Reaganghost
(Democrats are living proof that you can fool some of the people all of the time.)
To: Gipper08
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posted on
10/17/2005 9:58:38 AM PDT
by
Reaganghost
(Democrats are living proof that you can fool some of the people all of the time.)
To: RWR8189; Gipper08
Thanks for the ping...RWR, this is a great article.
I noticed when the Dems were mad about that first bill, because there were no amendments allowed...but, I didn't know that Pence and gang were equally as incensed. Good!
I have to say, that I liked that DeLay stood up and said that he screwed up. I know a lot of people will say that he kind of had to...because he has lost so much of his stature and "power"....but, the fact that he acknowledged that he let them down, is good.
Also, I would still want Delay on my side if I were Pence and gang...he will be a much better ally, than foe, IMHO.
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posted on
10/17/2005 10:07:51 AM PDT
by
Txsleuth
(Please say a prayer, and hold positive thoughts for Texas Cowboy...and Faith.)
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