Posted on 03/31/2009 5:31:42 PM PDT by EagleUSA
Moderate Senate Democrats voiced concerns about President Obama's budget Tuesday in a meeting with Budget Director Peter Orzag.
Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., hosted the meeting, which was the second time moderate Democrats expressed concern over the budget.
"I think there's a common concern about getting spending under control and making sure that there's a budget that doesn't have unsustainable requirements in it far into the future," said Sen Ben Nelson, D-Neb., who was one of twelve members at the meeting.
Nelson has called the group the "Mod Squad."
Sen Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., who also attended the meeting, said the group is not expected to take a collective position on the budget, a move that could imperil the bill's prospects without some changes and also one that would give this group considerable clout.
Still, Lieberman said he expects "some members of the group will vote for some amendments to curb spending," a top concern of the senator and his colleagues.
The budget is a blueprint, a nonbinding resolution that lays out targets for the year's annual spending and tax bills.
On the controversial idea of using a budgetary tool known as "reconciliation" to protect major new programs like climate change legislation and health care reform from a Senate filibuster, several members told FOX News they oppose the move, but again, don't expect a "Mod Squad" position.
Nelson called using reconciliation a "bad idea" and said he is prepared to vote against the budget if reconciliation comes back from House-Senate negotiations, as is expected for health care, specifically.
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They best be concerned.....nobody can come up with a way to pay for this budget......other than taxing the people out of all their earnings.
I’m not going to hold my breath.
They best be concerned.....nobody can come up with a way to pay for this budget......other than taxing the people out of all their earnings.
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And that will not even work. Of course the nation would be broke then and socialism will fail -— as it always does. It cannot pay for itself. Look what has been done just to fund the front end of Obama MASSIVE SOCIALIST STATE..... the credit card is filling fast. It would be nice to see the moderate Dims put the brakes on his radicalism.
I am with you. It will be jammed through!
Anyone who cares anything about this nation more than political power should be very concerned with 0bam’s budget. It is insanity.
They’re just giving Obama and the rest of the Dems cover, so that they can say “they had grave concerns about it.” This is all a big fricking joke. All of Congress should be voted out.
...I’ll try to act surprised when this budget passes with only minimal changes...
Evan Bayh is always “concerned” but when the rubber meets the road he’s bent over in leather chaps with an apple in his mouth getting whipped by Harry Reid.
Moderate Democrats might want to change Parties.
And Liberal Republicans might want to do the same.
I sent my tea bag photos in today’s mail. Even sent one to the Zer0baminator, telling him he might have to read The Constitution and The Federalist Papers to understand the lowly tea bag.
Not to worry, I already have an FBI file. And probably a CIA one, too.
“I am with you. It will be jammed through!”
In the long haul, it’s passing will probably be the best thing that could happen. The jolting effect of the results on the country and all Americans will be so pronounced that it should wake the populace of this country out of its coma.
Obama will be another one term Dem and perhaps we can also sweep all of his Dem lemmings trash out of the congressional corridors.
They will cave because they want to be loved by the media. God help this country.
“They best be concerned.....nobody can come up with a way to pay for this budget...”
3.) Remember that story that got people in an uproar about the lady who proposed the gov’t confiscate everyone’s 401K’s and give them an IOU? Well, this idea will come back in due time after the Auto, Energy/Oil, and Healthcare companies have been thoroughly demonized and the idiots that are now the American public, will gladly give over their accounts believing they will get a guaranteed retirement.
I didn’t think so even a month ago that our country was headed down the path of a 2nd revolution but now, I have virtually no doubt one will happen and it probably will be very brutal and will tear the country apart. And in reality that’s probably not such a bad thing. I think the country could split into three or four new masses of states and there would be four independent countries who are loosely dependent on each other yet uniquely seperate and the federl goverment as we know it will not exist.
then again, maybe the feds will start massive arrests and squash anything resembling a revolution and we all become serfs of the state...
They won’t oppose a damned thing. This is a load of bluster in order to foster the image of moderation for their milquetoast “conservative” supporters.
The thing that would quash a revolution in this country are the folks controlling the nukes...and don’t think they couldn’t put together a few neutron bombs in a hurry to minimize damage while they take out a few million troublesome Americans.
Something that always amazes me is how the younger generation so enthusiastically embraces Obama’s policies, even though they will be the ones paying the bills. If they are aware that he plans to load up the debt to the tune of $9.3 trillion over the next ten years (doubling the debt in five years, and tripling it in ten), they seem oblivious to the consequences to them. Maybe they simply lack the frame the reference needed to grasp the implications of blowing $9.3 trillion, when they will be the ones left with the bill? Maybe they don’t understand what they will be giving up by having Washington spend that cash instead of spending it themselves?
I will say this — the younger generation put Obama in office (say the exit polls), along with a near super-majority of Democrats in both chambers of Congress, and now, as their reward, they are about to be saddled-up and ridden hard. The $9.3 trillion that will be added to the public debt in the next ten years will be theirs to repay. That’s enough money to pay the tuition of every 4-year college student in America for an entire decade, buy each of them a $100,000 home and a $20,000 car, and still have enough left over to put a couple thousand dollars in their bank accounts. Imagine — an entire generation of debt-free college grads with money in the bank!
(That’s not to say we should tax away other people’s money to attain that goal — I am just trying to make a point about how huge $9.3 trillion is).
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