Powerful Republicans Worry About Bush Budget Cuts

[Up2Late]

Tue Feb 8, 2005 06:00 PM ET

By Anna Willard

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush's proposed spending cuts drew worried criticism on Tuesday from the Republican heads of congressional budget committees, and key party members said his priorities were not binding.

But the lawmakers expressed a shared goal of austerity as Bush said they must make "difficult choices" to rein in the budget deficit, which has surged to record levels during a presidency that inherited a surplus.

A top White House official said Bush was prepared to veto spending bills for the first time if necessary.

Bush sent Congress a $2.57 trillion budget plan for the 2006 fiscal year on Monday which proposes sweeping cuts across the budget and eliminates or reduces 150 programs. The Republican-controlled Congress is supposed to pass its own version by April 15, which will set spending limits for the year.
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[RC]

1. Do you really want to rein in the deficit spending?

Impeach bu$h. Then put him on trial for his war crimes.

[havocmom]

3. Then get rid of the tax cut for the top 1%

and get some accountability in the DOD. They can sure make $$ disappear fast yet our troops are begging family and friends to send basic equipment and food. Seems odd, doesn't it?

[Wright Patman]

5. What's even more odd

is when those same troops declare Kerry to be the enemy and vote 80 percent+ for the man who sent them to die.

Sometimes you've just got to let those with deathwishes act on their "patriotic" desires. And I'd say fair warning has been given by now to any young American that the U.S. military is like the Hotel California: you can check out any time you'd like, but you can never leave.

[War Pigs]

19. Too many Rambo and Duechenator movies for these flagwavers. They

think chimpboy loves and respects them. He's not losing any sleep over any of this

[ailsagirl]

2. Love it when his "own" start speaking out

Maybe it'll start a trend??

What I'd like to know is where the hell all the money went. Clinton left these creeps with a huge SURPLUS. So they first had to spend the surplus to get to zero, then go downwards from there.

Mind-boggling.

I know it isn't all going to "the war."

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[Swede]

9. Rush tell you this.

Gee,your second post and you're puking out wingnut bullshit,go figure.

[Mountainman]

10. OK, then why did on the right wingers say there was a surplus so give our

money back? Remember? The rich paid the most in taxes so they should get more?

I think you can't have it both ways.

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[Swede]

16. And we all know how them rich rightwingers

are full of the milk of human kindness. More right wing thought coming from you.

[flyarm]

17. look..* said...

that the government should not have our money sitting there in a surplus..so we had to have tax cuts...so if we are ..this.. in debt now..why doesn't he repeal the tax cuts..every country is warning us that they are going to pull away from the dollar for the euro because of our ridiculous out of control debt..china owns most of our debt..a frigging communist country owns most of our debt...so we should just keep borrowing but never tax the rich..,,well buddy i am one of the rich.,.and i would rather pay more taxes than have a communist country or japan owning my countries debt...so when do they pull the plug on us??

you are a pitiful ..just keep making excuses..but get your heils ready!!!

be responsible...support the troops?? bull we had troops fight those countries .. who now own our debt.. and our future..

like my father, he's rolling over now!!

fly

[Emboldened Chimp]

4. Good cop, bad cop, that's all it is...

None of them give a flip about the budget cuts.

[applegrove]

7. They couldn't run up the deficite fast enough -

They couldn't run up the deficite fast enough - so that in the second term they could institute some 'needed' cuts to programs and get away with it. create a crisis and then take tough measures to fix it - is an old sociopathic trick.


That Clinton Surplus must have been the most hated thing they had ever seen. That is why they hated him so much - cause his way was just as good - if not better than theirs.

What a bunch of ********!

[CHIMO]

8. shared goal of austerity

Which means: Special interest groups need not worry.

Result: Education etc. will take the whole cut.

[VegasWolf]

11. Austerity is good for the poor. After all, if god favored them, they

would be rich.

[candice]

12. Bush believes people are poor because they are lazy

...and has no idea what life is really liked. At least John Kerry has to work his way through college collecting bottles. Shrub has had everything handed to him on a silver platter (or brought to him by relatives in key places.

[stanwyck]

13. They'd better worry

here in Georgia, we're about to lose thousands of jobs due to Bush's cuts. So, thousands of Bush voters are about to learn about karma. And their karma cleanser is going to be booting out the yahoos who lied to them. They can spout fundie silliness all they want. Once it hits the pocketbook, they're ours.
Be worried, little Republicans. Be very worried.

[tsuki]

14. But Newt will make it all better when he runs in 2008. n/t

[Up2Late]

18. If you're talking about Lockheed

I bet it will be more like 4000. The Marietta plant that makes the C-130 and F-22 has about 8000 workers.