House GOP Opts For Safe Route On Budget, Moving Away From Paul Ryan Plan

[Flaylo]

House GOP Opts For Safe Route On Budget, Moving Away From Paul Ryan Plan

Republicans controlling the House are opting for the politically safe route as they follow up their tightfisted, tea party-driven budget with less controversial steps to cut spending.

Instead of big reductions in Medicaid and Medicare, top GOP lawmakers are sticking mostly with familiar proposals like cutting money for President Barack Obama's health care overhaul and federal employee pensions while reaching out to Democrats to help pass annual spending bills.

At issue is follow-up legislation to the sweeping budget document that passed the House last month. Under Congress' arcane budget process, it's simply a nonbinding blueprint that sets the terms for follow-up legislation.

The broader GOP plan, by Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., also calls for cutting day-to-day operating budgets for domestic agencies $19 billion below last summer's bipartisan budget and debt deal.

Republicans strongly backed the Ryan plan last month as a first step in tackling out of control deficits. It's also a campaign document that casts in stark relief the differences between Republicans and Democrats on spending and deficits with an election little more than six months away.

But steps to actually try to pass the full Ryan budget into law aren't happening; with Obama in the White House and Democrat controlling the Senate, any attempt to follow up the Ryan plan with binding legislation is doomed to fail. So GOP leaders like Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, appear to have decided that there's no sense in making GOP lawmakers walk the plank and cast numerous politically dangerous votes on issues like Medicare.

Beaten prostrate after listening to the demands of the Tea Party, they're making a half hearted attempt to reach across the isle, lol.

 

[midcan5]

Today the voter should reserve judgement as we've seen this before, often after an election insanity returns full force.

"A final word on politics. As in economics nothing is certain save the certainty that there will be firm prediction by those who do not know. It is possible that in some election, near or far, a presidential candidate will emerge in the United States determined to draw into the campaign those not now impelled to vote. Conceivably those so attracted - those who are not threatened by higher taxes and who are encouraged by the vision of a new governing community committed to the rescue of the cities and the impacted underclass - could outnumber those lost because of the resulting invasion of contentment. If this happens the effort would succeed." John Kenneth Galbraith 'The Culture of Contentment'

 

[SniperFire]

Well, since HuffPo says so, it must be true.


LOL

There will be no budgeting in Washington again until the Leftists are deposed from power in November.

 

[Stephanie]

here comes the blame on the Tea Party again folks..they are the all mighty and powerful, don't you know

and here I thought they were insignificant or dying out or something like that..

I wish they would make up their damn minds.

 

[Flaylo]

Well, since HuffPo says so, it must be true.


LOL

There will be no budgeting in Washington again until the Leftists are deposed from power in November.

Lefties aren't the ones trying to starve the beast and put an entire nation in the poor house left to dry just to balance the budget.

 

[Stephanie]

Well, since HuffPo says so, it must be true.


LOL

There will be no budgeting in Washington again until the Leftists are deposed from power in November.

Lefties aren't the ones trying to starve the beast and put an entire nation in the poor house left to dry just to balance the budget.

no problem then, let this country go bankrupt..then they can cut off your pay (if you really are in the military) along with letting the poor starve..
hope you enjoy your oh so moral high horse then

 

[SniperFire]

put an entire nation in the poor house left to dry

Hyperbole, much?

 

[Flaylo]

put an entire nation in the poor house left to dry

Hyperbole, much?

You guys are the only retards who think giving taxcuts to the rich and cutting programs to the poor will balance the budget, didn't the failure of Reaganomics teach you dumbasses anything?

 

[Stephanie]

put an entire nation in the poor house left to dry

Hyperbole, much?

You guys are the only retards who think giving taxcuts to the rich and cutting programs to the poor will balance the budget, didn't the failure of Reaganomics teach you dumbasses anything?

Naaa, we want more of Obamanomics...maybe we can get to 12% unemployment..Oh and they should not only raise taxes on the rich, they raise taxes on you since you CARE so much

 

[SniperFire]

put an entire nation in the poor house left to dry

Hyperbole, much?

You guys are the only retards who think giving taxcuts to the rich and cutting programs to the poor will balance the budget, didn't the failure of Reaganomics teach you dumbasses anything?

Again, just doubling-down on stupid rhetoric won't improve your argument.

LOL

 

[Stephanie]

Hyperbole, much?

You guys are the only retards who think giving taxcuts to the rich and cutting programs to the poor will balance the budget, didn't the failure of Reaganomics teach you dumbasses anything?

Again, just doubling-down on stupid rhetoric won't improve your argument.

LOL

you won't get much else from Fail, he gets all his talking points from the Hufferpost..