[dgallo51]

Why isn't anyone talking about boycotting "Made in Vermont" maple syrup? With Pat Leahy and Jumpin' Jim as Senators, they must be FRENCH!

[PhiKapMom]

I have been boycotting Vermont maple syrup since Jumpin' Jim Jeffords jumped! Would hate to have Leahy and Jeffords as my two Senators! UGH!

[RobbyS]

that the nation's children and grandchildren will eventually have to pay back.It was only a few years ago they were talkiing about hhow to use the surplus! All this talk about the long-term is nonsense. The only that that is certain is that the social security system cannot continue on its present basis.

[Paleo Conservative]

It's time to trade Vermont for Alberta.

[exit82]

It's called "leadership", Jumping Jim, not "pushing too hard". But then, you wouldn't be able to recognize it as such anyway.

[Mean Daddy]

Juck Feffords.

[tomahawk]

Reuters is a joke. We're not "FINANCING TAX CUTS WITH DEBT", as they say, we're financing government spending with debt. Any moron who understands where taxes come from and where spending comes from understands the difference. Mental pygmies.

[supercat]

I wonder if the management at the local stores have arguments about how they're going to "pay for" a sale? After all, if the company normally sells 100 widgets/day for $100 and it cuts the price to $80 for a week, it will lose at least $2,000/day, and possibly much more if people decide to buy more than the usual number of widgets.

[supercat]

BTW, why does nobody ask if the country can afford to keep sending so much money to Washington?

[dwswager]

Jeffords jumped because he finally figured out that the Republican party was no longer the party of snotty rich liberals as opposed to the Democratic party which is the party of snotty middle class and poor liberals. He apparently missed the whole "A Choice, Not an Echo", Goldwater era and the Reagan Revolution.

[Paul Atreides]

I'd like to tell Mr. Jeffords what he can push too hard...

[dts32041]

Remember this, if you used the accounting practices of the US Government, you would be serving time for multiple felonies.

I just wish once some on say, budget, start from scratch, no base line, and do a real effing budget.

[T'wit]

When a liberal attacks Bush, it shows up as a Reuters "news" story. When a liberal speaks out on anything, it shows up as a Reuters "news" story. When liberals lie, cheat, steal, beat their wives, take bribes, get sloshed in public, impregnate teenaged girls, sell nuclear secrets, commit rape, wave their plumbing at their employees, stick a cigar where the sun don't shine or incinerate a church, the story will be suppressed in Reuters.

I theeenk there is a pattern here.

[Brimack34]

If we would have had all the tax cuts in 2000 we would be out of this sorry mess. Did you hear that Liberal Republicans.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...TOP GUN BUSH is protecting US...

...both at Home and Abroad...

...like a TOP GUN should.

[Go Gordon]

He also said the deficits threatened to explode just as the baby boom generation, born from 1946 to 1964, begins to retire and draw on Social Security (news - web sites) and Medicare.

Ohhhhh, you mean the same generation that gave us a $6 trillion deficit are now worried about a couple hundred billion. Stick a sock in it Jeffords. Tax cuts increase revenues. As long as you guys in the Senate don't gobble up the excess, we'll be fine. Pass the stinkin tax breaks and lets move on.

[malia]

"If Republicans push too hard, you have what happened to us two years ago with Senator Jeffords leaving the party," the Iowa Republican said. He quickly added that he did not expect that to happen."

That type of thinking is how Iraq's people were raped, killed, tortured, starved, and imprisoned and other acts of extreme violence. --"Don't make waves" we were told.

If there are any Republicans that would jump because OUR money will be spent by US and not THEM, let them jump!!!

Now, to finish the article.

[ladyinred]

Well my goodness! What nerve the President has trying to push his tax cuts in the Congress! You'd think he was trying to keep his promises to those who elected him or something! Geeze, I can see why such a thing would upset someone like that fraud Jeffords!

[lawdude]

"FINANCING TAX CUTS WITH DEBT "

Sounds good to me. They have been funding WILD, EXCESSIVE spending with debt for years.

[WaterDragon]

Jeffords' idea of just the right "pressure" for tax cuts is to just pretend....he's offended that Bush really means to get those $*#&* tax cuts! What a moron Jeffords is. He definitely belongs in the French Democrat camp.

[Rockitz]

The president is simply trying to ease the damage from the train wreck that will occur with our economy. The debt levels we are now facing will unfortunately drag us into a severe recession, if not a depression. It's not the president's fault. He's simply in the wrong place at the wrong time with respect to the economy.