Budget ping!
Actually it depends on the backbone of HIS party..right now it is not looking so good
Sour Krauthammer, Tokyo Rove and Dana Perugino are the mouth pieces for the RINOs!
That question was, unfortunately, answered in 2008.
2010 was a dress rehearsal for the main event in 2012..
I think Kraut’s got that confused with the 2000 page Obamacare bill that Pelosi and Reid shat out over a year ago. That was the suicide note for an entire nation.
Too late. So far the responses seem to be to the title. It would help if people would actually read the articles before commenting on them, but I wouldn't hold my breathe for that.
The American people have lived too long with paying no price. They now think that the whole thing is a bluff. Money grows on trees and it will always keep pouring in.
People have lived on charge cards buying up things they cannot afford. That is how they were drawn in to this scam.
Now they feel that there is always a way out and that the gravy train will keep on rolling.
Never hurts to go for the best, Charles, if you get half, it is better than nothing.
But anyone that thinks just winning the House in 2010 gives the GOP control of the purse strings, they are fooling themselves. When we failed to get the Senate majority, we were left only being able to sell a promise of what we could do. It would take another election of winning big to make a dent in this nightmare.
Krauthammer is a liberal asshole!
“My comment: If they are not serious, we are doomed anyway.”
Might not want to go there. Not sure we can handle the truth. The term ‘bread and circuses’ comes to mind.
I think Chuck CabbageBeater probably has had too many delusions of Joe Biden praising him and asking him to stand up
Krauthammer (Mondale’s and Obama’s DARLING) is a
pretend conservative and a pretend Republican.
Krauthammer (also Romney’s DARLING) hates the TEA PARTY
because they are serious and real (unlike the
phony Krauthammer).
He credited this to the growing influences of the Tea Party candidates, who he says are a breed that is truly different than politicians of the past - they are staying committed to the ideas that they campaigned on rather than assimilating into the culture of tax/spend that's been there on both sides for decades. We need to increase their numbers in 2012, and press any potential presidential candidate as to their positions on the specifics of Ryan's plans. Anyone who can't discuss it point by point should be scratched from the list.
IMHO...
House has purse strings but without Senate and WH, their only weapon is government shutdown. It is a tactic that they have so far not had the courage to use.
What FReepers and many other Americans know - in total, somewhere between 40% and 60% of Americans - is that the budget battle for the next two years is about who Republicans in Congress really consider themselves beholden to: lobbyists or the actual future of America’s citizens.
They all are faced with a choice of figuratively jumping from the lobbyist “lillypad” to the citizen’s “lillypad” - and it is a scary jump unless one starts to feel a little “crazy”, and realizes that once they stop caring about getting reelected, they will have more reelection “juice” than any group of lobbyists could ever provide. They simply have to really PLAN on ONLY 2 terms, NO MATTER WHAT. Once they do that, it will FREE them, in their own mind and heart, to do ANYTHING that they know to be best for the long-term financial health of the citizens. This will ensure long-term tax revenue for the government, thereby ensuring long-term viability of the armed forces, thereby enhancing the financial scenario even more, as the U.S. will be able to ensure ability to act righteously and defend itself.
Siding with lobbyists includes coming up with wonderful plans that cut the healthcare industry in for huge sales revenue from government programs.
Healthcare will not be solved until it is properly structured in the private sector. If it was, healthcare costs in the U.S. would plummet and capabilities would skyrocket, the same as the computer cpu market has over the last 30 years. Regulation simply needs to set a marketplace that establishes the right motivations.
Smart Repubs will focus on discretionary spending as a SEPARATE issue from SS and Med. Combining the two is a childlish and evil lie.
“Legacy” Repubs are aligned with the party machine, which focuses only on getting elected. People are starting to realize that getting elected is NOT a worthy goal. Getting elected is meaningless by itself.
I have yet to see a simple budget that talks only about 2012 and eliminated 20% of government job headcount ANY 20% of expense dollars, be they from employee reductions or contractor reductions. And talks of NOTHING else. No SS, no Med, no “down the road”, nothing. Just headcount AND expense reduction for just 2012 fiscal year.
That would have meaning. Everything else is just rolling over credit card debt when our ability to pay is actually shrinking every year in real terms.
Krauthammer jsut went down a couple of notches in my estimation. Comments like show that Dr. K is not a serious person.
Isn’t that the million dollar question, are the American people serious about smaller government. I have seen this movie before, people upset about deficits but still want to continue receiving their government bennies. I do not know the answer, but I am very afraid that man’s basic human nature will win out, and that will be our doom.
Well Mr. Krauthammer How about if Obamacare is so Freakin Great why do we Need Planned Parenthood,Women get all the tests for free and if its so Great why are the Unions not Protesting and Breaking windows to get in on It instead of getting Waivers from it while the unwashed Masses are FORCED to buy it? Hey Charles maybe you should spend some of your free time and do something useful for us and study how much savings to the Tax payers if ALL GOVERNMENT workers were forced to go On Obamacare instead of their Private Policies and that goes for their retirement plans as well, they all now forfeit their private Plans and Get 401ks and Social Security ,you know those fanrastic plans that the Government workers are Exempt from beacause they are so Fantastic compared to the Junk they are FORCED to get like their salaries only being Double what private sector workers get,after all private sector only pays the Bills the Ingrates!
They elected Obama...we are Doomed anyway. Cas closed.