WASHINGTON — A key Senate panel stacked with allies of President Barack Obama approved his ambitious budget blueprint Thursday, giving the president a symbolic endorsement of efforts to boost clean energy, fight global warming and improve access to health care.
*****As you all know, this was a major theme of the “Press Conference” and “Web-Hall Meeting” upon which the theory is social spending will cure many of the ales the plague America. So where is the job creation for the American worker who was displaced by outsourcing, plant closings, or downsizing?******
Senate Budget Committee approval by a party-line vote sets the stage for floor debate next week, where moderate Democrats unhappy with deficits wield more influence. The Senate measure is a nonbinding road map for major legislation later this year on health care, energy and education.
******This is a chance the Republican minority needs to seize upon and woo the Blue Dogs into our corner. These Dems see things a lot more our way than the Presidents way. Education and Health are important things, but throwing cash at these things do nothing to solve the root problems******
But general agreements on fighting global warming and boosting health care promise to be severely tested later in the year as details are penciled in.
The Senate plan and its House counterpart will both go to the floors of their respective chambers next week over passionate protests from Republicans, who warn of big spending increases and record deficits.
******Lead by our number one Congresswoman—Michele Bachmann—against the out of control spending*****
Obama’s budget would leave a deficit of $749 billion in five years’ time, according to congressional estimates — too high for his Democratic allies — and would grow to unsustainable levels exceeding 5 percent of the economy by the end of the decade.
For their part, House Republicans unveiled their response to Obama’s budget plan Thursday in a glossy pamphlet short on detail and long on campaign-style talking points. Among the few details was a promise to simplify the tax code and cut income tax rates to 10 percent for people making $100,000 or less.
******If that is what you call rolling out something (I mean come on Rep Boehner! EDS (our Dept of Navy enterprise network provider) did a better job, and that was a disaster!! You have to come out with meat and potatoes, not a wimpy appetizer!*******
Republicans pointed out budgetary sleights of hand in the congressional plans, such as abandoning Obama’s promises for permanent relief from the alternative minimum tax and other politically essential legislation, such as money to shelter doctors from cutbacks in payments they receive for serving Medicare patients.
During Senate panel debate Thursday, Democrats shot down a series of GOP amendments, including a plan by Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., to save $200 billion by freezing spending on non-defense domestic programs for the next two years and allowing modest increases in the future.
The panel also defeated an amendment by top panel Republican Judd Gregg of New Hampshire to block Democrats from passing a health care reform bill that uses deficit dollars to finance a health care reform bill in the first six years of the plan.
*******And the Dems sit there, on their high thrown and tell the American people, that the GOP sits by and do nothing, when time after time, any republican suggestion, amendment, or proposal is shot down by the majority party. This is why we must make bed fellows with the Blue Dogs. We must combat this situation and stop it now befor we are bankrupt.*********
I really think the only people in the Republican party with a spine are the women… However, to be fair, some of the males are starting to speak up.
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has introduced legislation that would “bar the dollar from being replace by any foreign currency.” A statement from Bachmann’s website:
“Yesterday, during a Financial Services Committee hearing, I asked Secretary Geithner if he would denounce efforts to move towards a global currency and he answered unequivocally that he would,” said Bachmann. “And President Obama gave the nation the same assurances. But just a day later, Secretary Geithner has left the option on the table. I want to know which it is. The American people deserve to know.”
On Monday, Geithner and Bernanke both rejected the idea of a global currency in Congressional testimony. But in remarks to the Council on Foreign Relations yesterday, Geithner indicated he was open to the idea.
Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, appears to have mucked up her latest trip to the European Union.However, in Obamaland, big mishaps don’t matter because she is associated with THE ONE.
Hillary has been on a rigorous traveling schedule with most likely no time to sleep, however, as a head of state, representing your country, you should be able to handle these types of trips and schedules and still make sense while speaking and at least pronounce names correctly.Could you imagine if Condi had done this or Sarah Palin for that matter?All I hear from the media on these mistakes are, you got that right folks, *crickets!*
I’m getting really annoyed at crickets lately, because that’s all I am hearing.There is much to be discussed and should be discussed and debated in the media.However, these flubs are left unnoticed.The hypocrisy is appalling – let me pick out my favorite flubs by Hillary on this trip:
One working lunch later with EU leaders, Clinton raised more eyebrows when she referred to EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, who stood beside her, as “High Representative Solano.”
She also dubbed European Commission External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner as “Benito.”
Hillary also made a comment in the above referenced article about democracy – she went on to say she didn’t agree with a two-party system.I thought democracy was about choice?Not much choice in a one party “do as we say, not as we do” system.I think Hillary’s position as Secretary of State is best summed up thusly:
Juxtapose that with this video clip, where my gal Michele Bachmann talks about the mortgage “cram down” bill in a coherent and understandable way.In layman’s terms she even mentions and explains the concept of the Forgotten Man which was an economics theory by William Sumner in 1883 (a Yale professor).
