Posted on 02/25/2013 9:20:46 PM PST by upchuck
During President Barack Obama's meeting with U.S. governors at the White House Monday, the president dismissed members of the press to hold a private, hourlong discussion with the visiting state executives. Whatever was said after the cameras left the room especially incensed South Carolina Republican Gov. Nikki Haley...
"I could not be more frustrated than I am right now," Haley told reporters after the meeting. She said that when she asked Obama if he would consider a last-minute plan to shave about 2 percent from the annual federal budget without increasing taxes, the answer was "no."
"My kids could go and find $83 billion out of a $4 trillion budget," Haley said. "This is not rocket science..."
"There is no leadership. There is no confidence. There is nothing that shows us that they actually care about what they're doing," Haley said. "What they're doing is playing games, and we as the taxpayers are having to cover for their games. We're not going to do it anymore."
Haley also noted that "no one should be going home. No one should be playing golf. No one should be taking vacations."
She later added, "There is something very wrong in this town."
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Haley has the balls that most Republican male politicians lack.
I like this gal. She knows how to fight, stand her ground, and kick ass.
Maybe she could lend Boehner a pair. The same for McConnell.
Oh hell, the whole GOP too.
She doesn't get to do that, even if she were so worthless as to so cave (which she is not!).
She's a governor, not a House or Senate member.
Zer0 is simply playing the same game that was played in the great government shutdown of 1995-1996. It is because the Republicans overplayed their hand that they handed Clinton his reelection. This brought the Republican’s efforts for reform to a halt without the executive branch. With the Senate in Democrat control, Zer0 thinks that by doing nothing, he will play the Republicans into losing their control of Congress.
Clinton would have beaten Dole anyway. Dole had barely more fight in him than McCain.
The Dole failure was one of many Republican disasters that has put many like me in the doldrums.
There’s a headline now on Drudge: “Taxpayers Give Big Banks $83 Billion a Year”.
Correct Sir! (Or madame) just gamesmanship to keep the ‘ Pubies in line. Throw em a bone so to speak.
Sing it, Nikki!
Cloward-Piven is working to perfection. What seems "wrong" to Haley and others is that they do not realize how many people in DC want the American system to implode, and will actively defend against efforts to save it.
Something is very, very wrong in DC. I am wondering if our representatives shouldn’t live in their own districts and teleconference and vote electronically.
Something is very, very wrong in DC. I am wondering if our representatives shouldn’t live in their own districts and teleconference and vote electronically.
I’m in love with your tag :)
This is something I've thought about also. Maybe just spend one week a month in Wash DC.
An added benefit that that all those recesses so they can spend "time with our constituents" would not be needed. They'd be way more efficient.
The "Old Boy" club would fight this tooth and nail and it would be very hard to implement.
We need to prevent these “old boy” clubs from forming. Our representatives should be bonding with their constituents. This would have prevented McCain from having been “shocked” at the recent town hall meeting.
Actually she is right.
Sequester will supposedly cut about 2 percent from the coming year’s budgeted spending, not from the past year’s actual spending.
Of course you are right as rain that it is not a 2 percent decrease in expenditures...
Uh No chit Haley!! Now you know what we all knew 4 year ago.
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