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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (68937)	1/28/2010 1:57:33 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Pay-Go worked before and implemented could have great effect again. The other bill is a typical knee-jerk hog-tying approach - It limits all agency to 1% increase. What if one area has an increased need that would call for a larger increase but in another area you can find a few percentage points of money to cut? Pelosi is willing to back what Obama is proposing and with the wise, imo, caveat of at least reining in certain areas of military spending (the neverending cost overruns that contractors never fail to have). But Obama is proposing a smarter way forward than Sessions and Senator McC, even if their way sounds pretty and makes for good soundbites.

To: tejek who wrote (68937)	1/28/2010 2:21:09 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

Bush did not have a 60 vote majority in the Senate and he got several legislation through including ones which curtailed our liberties (The Patriot Act). His success could be attributed to the Repubs were united behind him and he needed the support of a handful of Dems which he got. The same was with Reagan. Remember his outburst at one of his meetings with the Repub House members where he yelled out to a HOuse member who was disagreeing with him something like "Hey who brought you to Washington. Want to come back?" Obama does not have the support of all of his own party members to begin with. HOw can he expect the Repubs to support him? Party unity is paramount to achieving what the American people want and have voted them to work towards.

To: tejek who wrote (68937)	1/28/2010 2:41:27 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

ouch - I just caught about 30 seconds of Judd Gregg on MSNBC. they pressed him to give a specific program he would cut. he would only say he'd end TARP, end the stimulus, and make a commission to work on medicare and SS. but am wrong that none of those things are in the budget, per se? he wouldn't name name a program. or an agency. or suggest cutting back on all the money that goes to farmers or... ouch again. time to rake some leaves. :) hey, but Obama was terrific in Florida, imo. I was watching that and lagtime switching it off got me caught by Gregg.