Senate Panel Endorses Modified Version of Obama’s Budget Plan
Posted by Pete on March 26, 2009 · Leave a Comment
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.*********
Discussing Federal Bailouts
Posted by Pete on March 25, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Michelle Bachmann, Rep MN 6th, discusses AIG and Bailout post Geithner/Bernake Hearing 24 Mar 2008.
Filed under General · Tagged with AIG, Bachman, bailout, Constitution, Corruption, Geithner, Michele
Michele Bachmann Seeks ‘Armed and Dangerous’ Opposition to Cap-and-Trade
By Kate Galbraith“Michele Bachmann, a Republican Congresswoman from east-central Minnesota, has some fighting words for President Obama’s energy plans.”
**Yeah, it is called – Take this plan and shove it, we ain’t payin’ here no more!**
“According to the Smart Politics blog at the University of Minnesota’s Center for the Study of Politics and Governance, Ms. Bachmann, when asked about President Obama’s cap-and-trade plans on a local radio station last Saturday, responded:
I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back. Thomas Jefferson told us, “Having a revolution every now and then is a good thing,” and the people – we the people – are going to have to fight back hard if we’re not going to lose our country. And I think this has the potential of changing the dynamic of freedom forever in the United States.”
**A little revolution is good every know and again!!**
“Ms. Bachmann also expressed some skepticism on global warming, saying, “The science is on our side on this one, and the science indicates that human activity is not the cause of all this global warming. And that in fact, nature is the cause, with solar flares, etc.”
It’s not the first time that Ms. Bachmann has expressed skepticism about climate change, and her latest comments are reminiscent of Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe, who has accused Mr. Obama of perpetrating “environmental thuggery.”
**This issue has been proven time and again. These Envio Nazis seek only to blame people for global warming and try to create hysteria in order to meet their objectives.**
“Her views were also echoed earlier this month by Michael Steele, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, who asserted in a radio appearance: “We are cooling. We are not warming.””
“However, Ms. Bachmann seems supportive of the energy revolution taking place on Minnesota’s own soil. “We must look beyond our traditional sources of energy to diversify our supply and find innovative solutions to help protect the environment,” her Web site says.”
“Indeed, Minnesota has aggressively pushed for the development of clean energy. The state currently requires diesel fuel to be blended with 2 percent biodiesel, and is soon to raise the “blend radio” to 5 percent. Minnesota also will require 25 percent of its electricity to come from renewable sources by 2025.”"
