Now it appears that the Republican promise to cut $100 billion from the budget this year was only "hypothetical". Uh-huh....

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2011_01/027383.php

 

Why are you so surprised, they promised Obama that they would follow his lead, he was very good at making hypothetical campaign promises.

 

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I'm not surprised.

 

Republican politicians are going to discover what they discovered after the elections of 1980 and 2000: it is not possible to cut government spending without cutting or eliminating programs most Republican voters will insist on keeping.

Rank and file Republican voters seem to think the government does not do much besides take tax money from hard working whites and give it to lazy, shiftless blacks. Nevertheless, we can eliminate the entire welfare budget and still have the need to cut popular spending programs. It is disgusting to have to go through this charade every one or two decades. :twisted:

 

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They think that because that's what they get told incessantly.

 

Well I know what DL tells us incessantly.

 

What I find funny, is this article is all about a failed campaign promise. Should we start listing all of the failed campaign promises that Obama has achieved? Lets just call it what it is, hype to get elected. All politicians do it. They have great and wonderful ideas, and then when it comes time to realize it is not possible, then they change their mind.

And as the article stated, even though it is bad to go back on a campaign promise, this was one that was better off being changed. Due to the fact that a lot more people would have suffered. So in the benefit of the US, this is a good thing.

 

The enduring legacy of Ronald Reagan is the durable delusion among most Republicans that they can have the government they want without paying for it. They cannot understand the contradiction between paying lower taxes than nearly any other affluent democracy and spending more on the military than the rest of the world combined.

 

In order to be elected, one has to make unrealistic promises. When elected one cannot deliver on the promises because they were unrealistic. The voters are ultimately responsible.

In 1984 Walter Mondale said at the Democratic National Convention that if elected he would raise taxes. He lost to Ronald Reagan in a landslide. Nevertheless, in his book, The Triumph of Politics: How the Reagan Revolution Failed, David Stockman, who was Reagan's Director of the Office of Management and Budget from 1980 to 85 acknowledged that in 1984 tax increases were necessary.

 

Funny in a bitter way at best.
Watching the Republicans babble about cutting spending is like watching a group of junkies building a rocket to the moon because they heard about a crater on the moon that is full of pure smack.

None of our elected politicians have the guts to do what is necessary in order to stop the bleeding.
Both parties have cheerfully turned a blind eye to the exponential growth of government and the exponential growth in spending and debt.
The biggest danger to America is not radical Islam; the biggest danger to the future of America sits in Congress.
As Pogo once said, "We have met the enemy and he is us".

 

LOL you complain about that. How about since 2007 the dems spent 5 trillion dollars. And remember it is congress that spends not the President.

So when nobama talks about driving the car into the ditch the dems did that.

And while the dems pissed and moaned over government control of health care they did not even do a budget. that has never been done before.

And do not worry the Republicans will cut, and they will de-fund this health care mess. Along with the rest of the un-elected czars nobama has. What is funny is the Republicans have only been in charge of the house since 12:00 give them time.

 

It wasn't hypothetical at all, it was and is what they proposed to do. Below is a link that Cantor is using to propose the cuts, all the cuts need to be voted on and passed by congress, you will find the voting tallies on you wants to cut and who wants to continue the wasteful spending on several issues.

http://majorityleader.gov/YouCut/

 

I agree that it's a good thing. I just think it's fun to point out that they orchestrated their reversal in record time. At least Obama waited awhile before disappointing me.

 

Then why did congressional staffers SAY it was hypothetical?

 

I don't remember the word "hypothetical" ever appearing in any of the campaign ads I saw from the GOP and Tea Baggers.

 

Tea Baggers and GOP: We don't need no stinking budget cuts

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/05/30-billion-budget-cuts-what-budget-cuts_n_804976.html

 

Really?
You mean like when the Republicans had control of House of Representatives and the White House from 2001 to 2006?
Several trillion dollars added to our national debt while the great Republicans were in charge.

Have you heard about the Republican doll?
You wind it up, send it to Washington and it does nothing :excited:

 

You really have to marvel at BigTrobbing's naivete, don't you.

But ace's n 8's should definitely know better.