OT: No worries folks, federal debt is now under control

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Interview with House majority leader Eric Cantor:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41195135/ns/meet_the_press-transcripts/ns/meet_the_press-transcripts

REP. CANTOR: No, no, that’s not true. First of all, David, we’re going to have a vote on the floor on Tuesday of this week directing our appropriations committees to go about deliberating on where those cuts are. Now, we know that there are hundreds of programs that are going to need to be cut. When you’re talking about cutting $100 billion, you’re going to have hundreds of programs in the thousands pages of spending plan that the federal government has. This week we will vote on an issue having to do with the Presidential Election Fund. We’re going, we’re going to vote to cut that. That’s a $500 and some million expenditure. We’re going to see hundreds of programs experience analysis and cuts just like that.

The Republican goal is to cut $100 billion in spending, back to ’08 levels (because there was no deficit on ’08, right?)

Here’s a summary of the plan to reach the goal

1) Cut the Presidential Election fund.
2) Figure out the other 95% later.

So we can all breathe a sigh of relief. Problem solved.

[desmond]

I watched the interview and Cantor was really weak, but I think the Republicans know what they want to cut and and have a plan on when to announce it. They over spent the last time they were in control and will get voted out if they don’t stop spending this time, or at least I hope so.

[desmond]

I watched the interview and Cantor was really weak, but I think the Republicans know what they want to cut and and have a plan on when to announce it. They over spent the last time they were in control and will get voted out if they don’t stop spending this time, or at least I hope so.

[desmond]

I watched the interview and Cantor was really weak, but I think the Republicans know what they want to cut and and have a plan on when to announce it. They over spent the last time they were in control and will get voted out if they don’t stop spending this time, or at least I hope so.

[desmond]

I watched the interview and Cantor was really weak, but I think the Republicans know what they want to cut and and have a plan on when to announce it. They over spent the last time they were in control and will get voted out if they don’t stop spending this time, or at least I hope so.

[desmond]

I watched the interview and Cantor was really weak, but I think the Republicans know what they want to cut and and have a plan on when to announce it. They over spent the last time they were in control and will get voted out if they don’t stop spending this time, or at least I hope so.

[Anonymous]

They don’t have any plan – they can’t have a plan.

Any plan that is mathematically possible requires big cuts to some combination of defense, social security, and medicare.

And they won’t touch any of those.

They’re just hoping they can make enough noise before 2012 so that they can win the White House.

They will continue to try and distract the fiscally ignorant public by talking about cuts to NPR, NEA, “earmarks,” and other mathematically insignificant programs.

Even if they managed to cut 100% of their favorite scapegoats, such as the Departments of Education, Energy, Labor, etc. the federal government would still run a deficit.

[Anonymous]

They don’t have any plan – they can’t have a plan.

Any plan that is mathematically possible requires big cuts to some combination of defense, social security, and medicare.

And they won’t touch any of those.

They’re just hoping they can make enough noise before 2012 so that they can win the White House.

They will continue to try and distract the fiscally ignorant public by talking about cuts to NPR, NEA, “earmarks,” and other mathematically insignificant programs.

Even if they managed to cut 100% of their favorite scapegoats, such as the Departments of Education, Energy, Labor, etc. the federal government would still run a deficit.

[Anonymous]

They don’t have any plan – they can’t have a plan.

Any plan that is mathematically possible requires big cuts to some combination of defense, social security, and medicare.

And they won’t touch any of those.

They’re just hoping they can make enough noise before 2012 so that they can win the White House.

They will continue to try and distract the fiscally ignorant public by talking about cuts to NPR, NEA, “earmarks,” and other mathematically insignificant programs.

Even if they managed to cut 100% of their favorite scapegoats, such as the Departments of Education, Energy, Labor, etc. the federal government would still run a deficit.

[Anonymous]

They don’t have any plan – they can’t have a plan.

Any plan that is mathematically possible requires big cuts to some combination of defense, social security, and medicare.

And they won’t touch any of those.

They’re just hoping they can make enough noise before 2012 so that they can win the White House.

They will continue to try and distract the fiscally ignorant public by talking about cuts to NPR, NEA, “earmarks,” and other mathematically insignificant programs.

Even if they managed to cut 100% of their favorite scapegoats, such as the Departments of Education, Energy, Labor, etc. the federal government would still run a deficit.

[Anonymous]

They don’t have any plan – they can’t have a plan.

Any plan that is mathematically possible requires big cuts to some combination of defense, social security, and medicare.

And they won’t touch any of those.

They’re just hoping they can make enough noise before 2012 so that they can win the White House.

They will continue to try and distract the fiscally ignorant public by talking about cuts to NPR, NEA, “earmarks,” and other mathematically insignificant programs.

Even if they managed to cut 100% of their favorite scapegoats, such as the Departments of Education, Energy, Labor, etc. the federal government would still run a deficit.

[faterikcartman]

I think those idiot Republicans are almost as keen on violating the Constitution as the Democrats. The Republican argument often strikes me as “we’ll sure we’re going to support programs not authorized by Constitution and spend money like crazy, but we’re going to spend it more smartly and on better programs than those darn Democrats.”

It’s almost as if they want to lose in the next election. If Obama winning showed us anything is that a lot of people won’t bother to vote if the choice is between a Democrat and a Democrat-lite. And why bother to vote for the lite-beer version when you can get the real thing?

I really feel like there is no classically liberal — or so-called conservative — party. We are trending towards a hard-line communist/socialist Democrat party and a Euro-style socialist Republican party. I couldn’t stand George Bush because he was rather far to the left of Bill Clinton. That is, if you look beyond the rhetoric to the policies.

I wish members of the Republican establishment would simply ask themselves if they are willing to dedicate their service to restoring a small government constitutional republic. And if they are not, they should promptly join the Democrat party and make way for an originalist, or at least Reagan conservative, movement to take over the Republican party.

I’m sick and tired of Republicans talking a good game when running for office, yet always going along with the creeping incrementalism that keeps the lefty agenda always moving forward.

Doesn’t anyone ever notice that, as a loose example to highlight my point, that it is always the left wanting to double the size of the Department of Education, and the “compromise” everyone in the media cajoles the right into accepting is to only increase it by 50%. We never hear about a movement to eliminate the Department of Education by Republicans who swore to uphold the Constitution and the media pressuring the left to compromise by only eliminating half of it.

That is they dynamic that has been at work for years and, I believe, is a prime motivator behind the tea party phenomena even though it has not yet been clearly articulated.

[faterikcartman]

I think those idiot Republicans are almost as keen on violating the Constitution as the Democrats. The Republican argument often strikes me as “we’ll sure we’re going to support programs not authorized by Constitution and spend money like crazy, but we’re going to spend it more smartly and on better programs than those darn Democrats.”

It’s almost as if they want to lose in the next election. If Obama winning showed us anything is that a lot of people won’t bother to vote if the choice is between a Democrat and a Democrat-lite. And why bother to vote for the lite-beer version when you can get the real thing?

I really feel like there is no classically liberal — or so-called conservative — party. We are trending towards a hard-line communist/socialist Democrat party and a Euro-style socialist Republican party. I couldn’t stand George Bush because he was rather far to the left of Bill Clinton. That is, if you look beyond the rhetoric to the policies.

I wish members of the Republican establishment would simply ask themselves if they are willing to dedicate their service to restoring a small government constitutional republic. And if they are not, they should promptly join the Democrat party and make way for an originalist, or at least Reagan conservative, movement to take over the Republican party.

I’m sick and tired of Republicans talking a good game when running for office, yet always going along with the creeping incrementalism that keeps the lefty agenda always moving forward.

Doesn’t anyone ever notice that, as a loose example to highlight my point, that it is always the left wanting to double the size of the Department of Education, and the “compromise” everyone in the media cajoles the right into accepting is to only increase it by 50%. We never hear about a movement to eliminate the Department of Education by Republicans who swore to uphold the Constitution and the media pressuring the left to compromise by only eliminating half of it.

That is they dynamic that has been at work for years and, I believe, is a prime motivator behind the tea party phenomena even though it has not yet been clearly articulated.

[faterikcartman]

I think those idiot Republicans are almost as keen on violating the Constitution as the Democrats. The Republican argument often strikes me as “we’ll sure we’re going to support programs not authorized by Constitution and spend money like crazy, but we’re going to spend it more smartly and on better programs than those darn Democrats.”

It’s almost as if they want to lose in the next election. If Obama winning showed us anything is that a lot of people won’t bother to vote if the choice is between a Democrat and a Democrat-lite. And why bother to vote for the lite-beer version when you can get the real thing?

I really feel like there is no classically liberal — or so-called conservative — party. We are trending towards a hard-line communist/socialist Democrat party and a Euro-style socialist Republican party. I couldn’t stand George Bush because he was rather far to the left of Bill Clinton. That is, if you look beyond the rhetoric to the policies.

I wish members of the Republican establishment would simply ask themselves if they are willing to dedicate their service to restoring a small government constitutional republic. And if they are not, they should promptly join the Democrat party and make way for an originalist, or at least Reagan conservative, movement to take over the Republican party.

I’m sick and tired of Republicans talking a good game when running for office, yet always going along with the creeping incrementalism that keeps the lefty agenda always moving forward.

Doesn’t anyone ever notice that, as a loose example to highlight my point, that it is always the left wanting to double the size of the Department of Education, and the “compromise” everyone in the media cajoles the right into accepting is to only increase it by 50%. We never hear about a movement to eliminate the Department of Education by Republicans who swore to uphold the Constitution and the media pressuring the left to compromise by only eliminating half of it.

That is they dynamic that has been at work for years and, I believe, is a prime motivator behind the tea party phenomena even though it has not yet been clearly articulated.

[faterikcartman]

I think those idiot Republicans are almost as keen on violating the Constitution as the Democrats. The Republican argument often strikes me as “we’ll sure we’re going to support programs not authorized by Constitution and spend money like crazy, but we’re going to spend it more smartly and on better programs than those darn Democrats.”

It’s almost as if they want to lose in the next election. If Obama winning showed us anything is that a lot of people won’t bother to vote if the choice is between a Democrat and a Democrat-lite. And why bother to vote for the lite-beer version when you can get the real thing?

I really feel like there is no classically liberal — or so-called conservative — party. We are trending towards a hard-line communist/socialist Democrat party and a Euro-style socialist Republican party. I couldn’t stand George Bush because he was rather far to the left of Bill Clinton. That is, if you look beyond the rhetoric to the policies.

I wish members of the Republican establishment would simply ask themselves if they are willing to dedicate their service to restoring a small government constitutional republic. And if they are not, they should promptly join the Democrat party and make way for an originalist, or at least Reagan conservative, movement to take over the Republican party.

I’m sick and tired of Republicans talking a good game when running for office, yet always going along with the creeping incrementalism that keeps the lefty agenda always moving forward.

Doesn’t anyone ever notice that, as a loose example to highlight my point, that it is always the left wanting to double the size of the Department of Education, and the “compromise” everyone in the media cajoles the right into accepting is to only increase it by 50%. We never hear about a movement to eliminate the Department of Education by Republicans who swore to uphold the Constitution and the media pressuring the left to compromise by only eliminating half of it.

That is they dynamic that has been at work for years and, I believe, is a prime motivator behind the tea party phenomena even though it has not yet been clearly articulated.

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