I thought Obama said we had to spend our way back into prosperity?

[Midnight Marauder]

Sometimes the right answer IS "no".

Were I running for office or advising a candidate, I would EMBRACE that "party of NO" label and run on it.

Why the far-left thinks that works as a disparagement is beyond me.

Perhaps because there are still SOME people in this country (right, left and Indie) who believe our elected officials are supposed to work FOR us?

Working FOR us is saying NO to much of this nonsense.

The far-left thinks government is the be-all end-all to every issue.

 

[Murf76]

The spending freeze will be nothing more than an elaborate shell game. There is very little that the government will deem "discretionary". For example, I just heard on the news that the new "job stimulus" bill would be exempt because it's supposed to stimulate the economy. Another attempt to distract and mislead the public.

Exactly. It's more kabuki theatre from the Obama White House. These cuts in discretionary spending were ALREADY part of his 2009 budget. They bumped up spending with last year's budget, with the plans to lower it incrementally over time. And still not to what they were before he took office, let alone pre-Bush spending.

It's a drop in the bucket. A measly 250 billion spread out over TEN YEARS, and that's if everything pans out the way he says it will.

It's a political sleight-of-hand, announced now so that he'll have something nice to say for his State of the Union, something that might fool Independent voters into believing that he's reeling in the wasteful spending.

 

[LibocalypseNow]

Way too much micromanaging of the economy by this President and Congress. They really have created quite a disaster. They keep creating disasters and then try and fix their disasters by creating more disasters which they will have to come back and fix again and so and so on...Micromanaging the economy is good for those who enjoy power-trips but it really has been terrible for our nation. End Socialism now. Make 2010 count people.

 

[Murf76]

Sometimes the right answer IS "no".

Were I running for office or advising a candidate, I would EMBRACE that "party of NO" label and run on it.

Why the far-left thinks that works as a disparagement is beyond me.

Perhaps because there are still SOME people in this country (right, left and Indie) who believe our elected officials are supposed to work FOR us?

Compromise is only possible within the framework of the 17 enumerated powers authorized to Congress by the U.S. Constitution. So, yeah.... there were things they could have done which would have helped people. But the majority in Congress CHOSE not to do those things. They wanted the Trojan Horse, the "starter home". And they've been unwilling to settle for anything else.

There are things that are do-able. And things that aren't. This wasn't.