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“As shutdown angst reigned across Capitol Hill on Friday, Congressional leaders worked behind closed doors while staffers and support employees, resigned to the fact that they had absolutely no role in averting a shutdown, consoled themselves with furlough humor,” Roll Call adds. “Notwithstanding the looming threat of losing pay and the dejection of being deemed nonessential, as clocks ticked toward the midnight deadline, work life went on as normally as possible.”
“Despite the tension and the glare of the media spotlight, the fledgling relationship between Boehner and Reid actually grew stronger over the last couple of months, according to sources close to both men,” The Hill reports. “That is important because the next political crisis of raising the nation’s debt ceiling is just around the corner.”
“House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s 2012 budget resolution, set to pass the House this week, may kill closed-door bipartisan negotiations in the Senate over a grand deficit bargain,” The Hill writes.
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Question: Will folks like Rand Paul and Michele Bachmann applaud the fact that a government shutdown was averted even though they voted against the spending compromise?
Like asking politicians to "not grandstand." If your public personna is spending cuts, of course they will not applaud averting a shutdown becuase the cuts are short of the campaign promise.
Oh yes let's give Weeper of the House and big around applause of cutting the spending by $38 billion but when President Obama froze all raises for the Federal for the next five years which will save us $40 billion I'm pretty sure I didn't hear applause for that......oh I see now, how could I forget he's a Democrat.
Now they want to cut some of the programs for the seniors and the poor. If they do that then they need to close all loopholes for corporations and get rid of all the tax cuts for the wealthy. You know it's call share sacrifice but of course that will never happen.
What they need to cut are their salaries and make them pay 50% of their health care. If they cut the defense budget by a good 200 billion because 698 billion is way to much for us to spend. Our defense budget is enough to cover 15 other counties combined together. That's sad.
I can tell they are really listening to the American People when all poles state not to touch SS, Medicare, Medicaid and raise taxes on the wealthy. Go figure!!!!
Bingo! Although I think the problem might be a little more than just the D behind his name. Have you not seen how far pundits have gone to find praise for everybody but Obama? Boy, does this guy make a lot of people uncomfortable!
I don't know who put those flags on both sides of the screen but they sure do make it almost impossible to read the comments. Take them down.
If only it were that simple. Makes for great populist rhetoric. When 100% of the tax revenues for the current year will not even cover mandatory entitlement spending, no amount of raising taxes on the wealthy, cutting of defense or other menial elements of discretionary spending is going to get the country to reverse the trend.
Here are your facts:
$3.65 trillion proposed budget - $2.1 Trillion expected revenues - $2.0 Trillion mandatory entitlement spending.
Cut every program and you still don't have enough cash to balance the budget, so while I agree that the elected officials need to feel the hurt, be realistic about where the real problem resides. And if you don't like the numbers, fact check them for yourself at the government public access website. Here is the FY09 budget:
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy09/hist.html
By the way, does Palin know that her 2008 running mate wasn’t born in one of the 50 U.S. states?
I am not Palin fan and will not vote for her if she does run. That being said. Do you know that according to this: On April 30, 2008 Senate Resolution 511 resolved that John Sidney McCain, III, is a ‘‘natural born Citizen’’ under Article II, Section 1, of the Constitution of the United States.
Next time please do some research before saying something is or is not. There is nothing worse than irresponsible journalism!
I doubtyou will hear much from Rand and Michelle about averting the shutdown. They will be, however, crowing about their votes against it as proof they are the real Republican Conservatives in the room. All clever folks should remind their friends, enemies, relatives, would-be relatives, strangers, newspapers, this column---we are not broke! We just aren't getting in register the money that has been diverted to the hedge-fund accounts of the wealthiest Americans by the BUSH TAX CUTS!
So you say we are not broke. Really? So you think you can pick up an additional $1.6 trillion in tax revenues this year? The "clever folks" as you say must only look at talking points. Your assertion that the tax cuts are responsible is the worst possible kind of propaganda. It is pure deception.
I think all the "clever folks" need to remind themselves, their friends, relatives, strangers, etc. that posts like this one are pure bull$@!$%# populist propaganda. What part of $1+ trillion dollar deficit for the current year do you not understand? Even if you returned to Clinton era tax rates you would not obtain but $700 Billion over ten years. Not enough to cover even one year of current deficit spending spending. And to make your post even more BS, the current POTUS is the one that extended the cuts and signed them into law. I guess that makes them Obama tax cuts, not Bush tax cuts. (And these by the way were needed to avert a tougher recession than the one we are currently digging out from.) But that is too logical for a mental midget to understand. So I digress. Go back to your fantasy that it is a revenue problem.