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Subscribe to RSSRepublicans selected Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl of Arizona and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia to participate in deficit discussions with the White House.
"When the House considered five competing 2012 budget plans from across the political spectrum last Friday, 24 lawmakers voted against every one of the proposal," writes The Hill, noting that many of the "none of the above" voters were Blue Dog Dems.
The so-called Gang of Six is close to announcing a deal on long-term deficit and debt reduction, the Washington Examiner writes.
A year after the oil spill, Politico looks at BP's donations to Hill lawmakers. "The company at the center of the storm in last year’s Gulf of Mexico spill sent out its first checks for the 2012 election cycle in March totaling $29,000. They went almost entirely to the campaigns of a handful of House Republican leaders."
National Review's Costa interviews Sen. Marco Rubio (R) on foreign policy. "Rubio, in an interview with National Review Online, says that the late senator Jesse Helms, the firebrand conservative from North Carolina, is his model. 'Politicians are not heroes,' Rubio says. 'But if you look at Jesse Helms, he had a tremendous amount of influence in this place.'"
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Senator Kyl? Wouldn't the GOP be better served by someone who actually DOES intend to make factual statements when he speaks?
Noid- was your post meant to be 'factual'? If not, why are you practicing up to be a Republican? I thought you were one of 'us'.
(tee-hee. snicker)
AAAHHH. Another behind clsoed doors approach by the President! So much for transparency! I am not surprised by the Republican selectees for the group. Cantor has been orchestrating a YOU CUT web service for over a year that allows citizens to identify stupid Govenrment spending that should be considered for cuts. Cantor will be able to bring a lot of the table if the President and the Democrats are truly serious about cutting our spending. Kyl is also an obvious person to be on the group because anything that is identified or tentatively agreed to by this group would have to be chamioned in the Congress on both sides... and Kyl is the Minority Whip. I expect you will see the same type nominees from rthe Democratic side... hopefully not Shumer or WHINER! If they really want to stir things up, why not also include indeents like Ron Paul and Kacinich.
It does not surprise me that each sides are loading up this cover group so they can give the perception that the President is serious about cuts. I place more hope in the Gang of Six. I have watched the Gang of Six with much interest especially the Democrats on the gang who have been indicating that they too are very committed to restructuring the tax code to elimiinate tax loopholes ( that nice word for write offs that only the rich and well off cna afford to take advantage of ).
I am sure that Obama will be all ready to run out and catch any positive results fo any of these groups and start waving the re-election flag saying that this was all done by him....NOT! Maybe if he would shut up and quit poisoning the well for any negotiations wiht his speeches, we could move forward!
Fed Up Senior......
Hope you are not relying on Medicare or Social Security to help you stay happy and healthy in your golden years!
Fed Up with Seniors,
Your Medicare is safe in the Ryan budget proposal, no worries, but when I reach 67 I would have to pay $6,400 more a year for healthcare. How the heck am I going to be able to do that? And more to the point, if I can't, some hospitol, nursing home or doctor in Maine will be eating the cost of treating me (you're going to let an Alzheimer addled lady roam around your streets in her night gown?) So the government will STILL have to step in; how does that reduce the deficit? Ryan, the wunderkind, thinks he can solve the federal deficit problem by dismantleling Medicare, but I just see that as a shell game.
Gimme the ax! I have some limbs to remove called IRAQ & AFGHANISTAN. Oh, and BIG OIL & AG subsidies. We already know the BUSH tax cuts will be allowed to wither on the vine than never bore fruit.
You have my best wishes on your future Ms. Senior. You know I was raised around Seniors at about the time Medicare was created. My grandmother was the last living of her syblings in the 70's because ALL of the younger siblings, having Diabetes genetically passed to them, had died off. Being the youngest, only she benefited from Medicare in time to extend her life. She was a single mother of 9 (her husband deserted her for alcoholism) in the hills of Kentucky, working in a GE TV tube plant. A union shop BTW.
Those are the kind of people we are cutting off at the knees Ms. Senior. First with the recession and now withall the EMERGENCY AX wielding for TAX CUTS. Now you can sit there and BASH our fine leader, President Obama, and spew FOX TV talking falsehood points BUT he is working his @ss off for you. Sorry you feel the need to be mean to him and those less fortunate.
ON a more upbeat point, I agree with you and I too am guardedly hopeful that someone, ANYONE, with a brain & a heart will team up and KEEP AMERICA GREAT by taking care of US All!
Well Amy B,
The Ryan proposal is just that, a proposal. No one actually knows when and if it will enter law, nor does anyone know what and how funding for the proposal will be enacted. Aren't you being a bit emotional without actual facts?
And isn't emotion also being used to create an ugly visual of a crazy lady running around the streets in her nightshirt? Government keeps that from happening now. It probably will then too. How will they fund this? Perhaps we will find out when we read the total proposal.
Now AmyB, Ryan has a proposal, where is the Prez.'s factual proposal to compare issues between the two. Or perhaps, do we have the Progressive/Democratic proposal to read? Do they have one?
And does the progressive-democrat's have a proposal on deficit reduction? After all, these folks helped to drive up the deficit - they know spending, now they can define reduction.
President Obama is wise enough to have a thoughtful process of seeing the whole big picture before endorses any path. Much different from the Quick Draw and think later previous administration. A proposal of this magnatude must necessarily evolve to get the best of all the ideas to work together synergetically for the betterment of US All. Put all ideas on the table and talk. Compromise and we all win. Intelligent debate on the facts. Period. Too much RUSH can make a person make some very BAD decisions...like the explosion of debt under said previous BUSH-ENY regime.
Maybe ole Dick can get Halliburton to give back some of the overcharges they billed while doing that top notch work building barracks showers that executed soldiers in the raw for their profits and from lack of oversight for their Afgham contractors. Hell this is the first war I can ever recall that America has rebuilt everything that gets blown up over there immediately so it can be blown up again. In the past we've waited until the war is at it's end before we make those kinds of investments. BILLIONS to HALLIBURTON! There's your golden egg.
With all due respect Fed Up Senior Cantor doesn't have ANY credibility he needs to explain his votes on passing both Bush tax cuts, Medicare Part D, and some others without even considering how to pay for any of it.
AmyB - get with it, save and invest wisely, stop throwing your soda cans away (a nickle saved is a nickle earned).
Better hope that our government will even have enough to issue you a voucher.
Why is everything about amyb, don't you ever get tired of running around saying "ME, ME, ME"?
Missy TX
Missy, with the inability of the obama administration to move forward on a number of issues, do you believe he may not have the whole big picture in front of him?
Don't you believe he appears to be an empty suit with no real value?
It will be interesting to see what the "gang of 6" agrees on.
Kudos to these 6 senators for caring about Americas future. Perhaps between their plan + the houses plan we can get a FY2012 budget approved and start implimentation of medium and long term plans to address our fiscal house.
Senators Dick Durbin of Illinois, Kent Conrad of North Dakota, Mark Warner of Virginia, Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, and Mike Crapo of Idaho
Let obama continue on with his fantasy campaign trip, he can talk, but can he submit his numbers?