House Kills Obama Budget-OK's Ryan's

Dusty · 03-29-2012, 13:57

Now, to throw out Obamacare and hold a fair election.

http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/20...s-down-defeat/

The Bowles-Simpson deficit-reduction plan went down to a crushing defeat in the House late Wednesday night in a vote that damages the one bipartisan proposal that just a few months ago had seemed like a possible solution to the country’s debt woes.

The 382-38 defeat, with just 16 Republicans and 22 Democrats voting for it, marks a bad end to what began nearly two years ago, when President Obama tapped former White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles, a Democrat, and former Sen. Alan Simpson, a Republican, to lead a deficit-reduction committee.

Their report has popped up in every deficit discussion since then, but had never gotten a vote in either chamber until this week, when opponents prevailed.

“This doesn’t go big. This doesn’t tackle the problem. This doesn’t do the big things,” said Rep. Paul D. Ryan, Wisconsin Republican and chairman of the Budget Committee. “You can never get the debt under control if you don’t deal with our health care entitlement programs.”

The debate came as the House worked its way through its fiscal year 2013 budget plan, which Mr. Ryan wrote.

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(As of this aticle's timing, Ryan's bill hadn't yet been OK'd...but it will.

03-29-2012, 20:20

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Originally Posted by Dusty

Now, to throw out Obamacare and hold a fair election.

http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/20...s-down-defeat/

“This doesn’t go big. This doesn’t tackle the problem. This doesn’t do the big things,” said Rep. Paul D. Ryan, Wisconsin Republican and chairman of the Budget Committee. “You can never get the debt under control if you don’t deal with our health care entitlement programs.”

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(As of this aticle's timing, Ryan's bill hadn't yet been OK'd...but it will.

So do we even have a figure, a number, even a ball park estimate of the trillions and bazillions of dollars health care is costing to deficit the country such? Or is this percieved burden just more efin smoke an mirrors???

ZonieDiver · 03-29-2012, 20:40

That it took until this point into his administration to even bring Bowles-Simpson to a floor vote in either house of our Congress does not reflect well on the POTUS. I pray that the GOP rallies around their apparent candidate and starts pounding the crap out of this WH occupant.

Badger52 · 03-30-2012, 08:58

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Originally Posted by Dusty

The debate came as the House worked its way through its fiscal year 2013 budget plan, which Mr. Ryan wrote.

That's my boy. Rank & file Fed workers are quite used to being the public-facing image of the sacrificial lambs in terms of salary freezes (whom the G usually volunteers in a bi-partisan fashion to show "we're tightening our belts"). I don't care who authors the bill, I can live with doing the right thing.

As I've said before Ryan is a guy that scares the krap out of them when he's in the room on fiscal issues, which is a good thing.

That the Zero's workaround got punked out in a huge way is dessert. 382-38? I mean.... damn.

Mr Furious · 04-04-2012, 15:35

They really do need to get rid of those tele-prompters. Sad.

“…comparing President Obama's remarks during a 2011 budget speech to his remarks during the recent 2012 budget speech. Many, it appears, are identical.”

http://tinyurl.com/7hokpgd

tonyz · 04-05-2012, 18:19

Another reason we need the Ryan budget.

Geithner: U.S. Fiscal Situation 'Unsustainable'--But We Can't 'Just Cut Things'

By Matt Cover
April 4, 2012
CNSnews.com

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/geit...ust-cut-things

Excerpt:

"Our fiscal commitments are unsustainable over the long run, but we cannot put our long-run fiscal challenges above all others...”

**Box** · 04-06-2012, 03:43

same prostitute...
...different skirt

Ret10Echo · 04-06-2012, 05:10

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Originally Posted by Mr Furious

They really do need to get rid of those tele-prompters. Sad.

“…comparing President Obama's remarks during a 2011 budget speech to his remarks during the recent 2012 budget speech. Many, it appears, are identical.”

http://tinyurl.com/7hokpgd

He's hitting well above his weight class.

greenberetTFS · 04-06-2012, 05:22

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Originally Posted by ZonieDiver

That it took until this point into his administration to even bring Bowles-Simpson to a floor vote in either house of our Congress does not reflect well on the POTUS. I pray that the GOP rallies around their apparent candidate and starts pounding the crap out of this WH occupant.

This could be the start of "O's" downfall........

Big Teddy