Posted on 04/15/2011 1:23:24 PM PDT by Monitor
See: “Conservatives unveil alternative budget with $9.1 trillion in cuts”:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2701879/posts
The Republican Study Group plan is a conservative alternative to Ryan’s leadership backed plan. The RSG plan would cut $9.1 trillion instead of Ryan’s $5.8 trillion over 10 years. And the RSG plan would balance the budget in 10 years (by 2020) rather than 30 years (2040) under Ryan’s plan.
'Nuff said.
At least they didn’t run off to Ill
WOW.
The democrats really are children aren’t they!
What? These DemonRATs are slacking! They failed to stage a mass vomit on the House floor. What’s the matter with them?
/sarc
This is a necessary thing. It is better when it occurs slowly. That is not the current situation.
The hypocrisy of both “major” parties on full display.
The RSG vote was supposed to be a symbolic vote to provide political cover to Republicans who wanted to be able to claim they supported much deeper cuts than Ryan proposed. "See, we voted in favor of these really, really deep cuts!" Of course, they didn't actually want to pass the bill. They just wanted to be able to claim they voted for it.
So the Dems called their bluffs by voting present, meaning that Republicans may have passed a bill they really didn't want to pass in the first place. That forced a bunch of the GOP people who voted in favor of the bill to change their votes to "no", which makes them look ridiculous.
I hate stupid symbolic votes like that, and the GOP got exactly what they deserved. Now hopesfully, we can move on from stupid gams and symbolic votes and actually try to accomplish something.
My preference would be tying a lifting of the debt ceiling to votes by both houses of Congress for a Constitutional Amendment for either a balanced budget or debt ceiling cap.
It’s nothing - Lenin and Trotsky had their little tiffs, too.
Sorry but if they supported tougher legislation they should have passed it then and let the dems twist in the wind! Obviously some in our caucus don’t stand for what they profess to believe.
Badabing.
LLS
You are correct... the others thinking otherwise are not.
LLS
So this ruckus was about an alternative to Ryan’s proposed budget?
Possibly, Ryan’s plan is much more realistic and possible than the dramatic grandstand proposed by the RSC. We need to actually get things DONE, not just make “statements” with symbolic impossible gestures. The monstrosities in our government were not created overnight, but over time. And they were created by Dems always closing ranks on crucial votes, something that some elements of Republicans have not learned. We will never make lasting gains on our side until we learn to unify and move in the same direction. There are always disputes over which leadership to follow at which time.
Great. Go over the cliff at 98 instead of 99 miles per hour.
ya know what??? we have just been done a tremendous favor....all we need is a list of those so called pubs that oppossed this bill, and we have our list of targets to shoot down in the next election....for once I can say, thank you liberal socialist scum...now, who has the list of who voted which way?
That’s a great point.
Republicans need to wake up and understand that Democrats will do anything legal OR illegal, unethical, or immoral to thwart responsible government.
Simply put, they despise the notion of a successful, prosperous citizenry that is not utterly dependent upon them.
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