First, the GOP was all over Obama for his stim plan, calling it a tax and spend proposal. They also were all over his budget, which by the way was not totally his, saying that we , as a country, were bankrupting our children’s future.
The GOP had little to no effect on the national conversation and now they will bitch about the budget cuts that the president has told his cabinet they must come up with in 90 days.
Sorry to my conservative friends, but you guys need to get your stuff together….pick a position and stick with it…the American people are listening less and less to whatever it is you guys are trying to say.
The first one I heard after the announcement of the cuts was one Glen Beck of FOX News.
One hundred million dollars is a joke — a joke that gets even less funny when you consider that we’re spending more than $100 million every 2 hours in interest on our debt alone!
It’s also reportedly going to take President Obama’s Cabinet 90 days to make these deep, painful cuts — something that would take you and I about 10 seconds to do. Cutting programs that even the government admits aren’t working like: $83 million for educating migrant workers; $169 million for “air quality grants” or $900 million dollars on Amtrak.
Beck said on his FOX News show and he was talking about the order that the Pres. gave to his cabinet members to cut their budgets wherever they could.
Framed by members of his Cabinet, the president himself acknowledged that the goal amounts to a drop in the bucket. “It is, and that’s what I just said,” he told reporters. “None of these things alone are going to make a difference. But cumulatively they make an extraordinary difference because they start setting a tone. And so what we are going to do is, line by line, page by page, $100 million there, $100 million here, pretty soon, even in Washington, it adds up to real money.”
Is it just me or is the Right looking ever more pathetic and rudderless? I think the American people are more and more finding the conservatives just comical and less effective…it is a dying party and the members are doing little to save it. JUst once maybe they should have a “real” plan before they go about their mindless attacks and then their “NOs” might have some validity.
I agree that the Republican nitpicking is pathetic, but please don’t confuse “the right” with the Republican party. There are plenty of mindless Republican Robots out there who assume that whatever W did was “conservative” and whatever any Democrat did was “liberal,” but plenty more recognize the fascist hypocrisy of the GOP. So yes, I oppose Obama’s budget and his PR attempt at “cutting costs,” but I opposed Bush’s spending for the very same reasons.
Hi Issac and thanx for the comment. I try to keep it separate but when I hear conservative and Repub spouting the basix same stuff, it is hard to remember that they are not the same.
It is hard to distinguish, but when someone (especially on talk radio) says “I’m a conservative and I think we should invade this country and that country and help Wall Street and blah blah,” then they aren’t really conservative, are they? I can call myself a scarlet macaw if I want, but it doesn’t make it true.
The GOP has had such a monopoly on the term “conservative” for so long that it has become synonymous, but that’s just media manipulation. The “unity no vote” on the bailout bill a while ago was supposed to show that Republicans are fiscal conservatives, but really it just showed they are hypocritical hacks that will do anything for publicity.
Hello Issac and thanx for the visit…I agree with you completely……in these days too many people assume that a conservative is by definition a Repub. I have talked with many conservatives that renounce the GOP and the do nothing but say NO tactics.