Quotes of the day
posted at 9:00 pm on February 13, 2011 by Allahpundit
“The Obama administration and congressional Republicans laid the groundwork on Sunday for what is shaping up to be an epic budget showdown…
“‘We’re broke,’ [Boehner] said on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press.’ ‘What’s really dangerous is if we do nothing. …We’re going to deal with the entitlement problem.’…
“‘It’s going to be a confrontation,’ said McCain. The Arizona Republican also suggested that while he admires House Republicans’ push to cut $100 billion in the current fiscal year, he’s not sure it’s entirely doable…
“‘We look forward to working with Congress,’ [White House budget director Jacob] Lew said. Pressed on the issue, he simply repeated, ‘We look forward to working with Congress.’”
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“President Obama will respond to a Republican push for a drastic reduction in government spending by proposing sharp cuts of his own in a fiscal 2012 budget blueprint that aims to trim record federal deficits by $1.1 trillion over the next decade.
“Obama would reach his target in part by raising taxes, an idea that Republicans refuse to consider. But two-thirds of the savings would come from spending cuts that are draconian by Democratic standards and take aim at liberal priorities, such as a popular low-income heating assistance program and community development block grants.
“Obama also targets the Pentagon, traditionally considered untouchable by both parties, by adopting $78 billion in savings proposed by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates.
“The White House proposal, outlined Friday by a senior administration official, would barely put a dent in deficits that congressional budget analysts say could approach $12 trillion through 2021. But the policies would stabilize borrowing, the administration official said, while reversing the trend of ramping up spending to blunt the trauma of the recent recession.”
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“President Obama’s 2012 budget request to be released on Monday will reduce budget deficits over the next decade by only a quarter of the amount proposed by the presidential debt commission in December, a senior administration official confirmed Sunday.
“Whereas the debt commission’s mix of spending cuts and tax increases reduced deficits by $4 trillion over 10 years, the Obama budget will reduce the combined deficits by $1.1 trillion…
“The budget also does not propose long-term solutions to Medicare and Social Security spending either, although it does propose paying for a two-year extension of the so-called Medicare ‘Doc fix’ by new cost control measures.”
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“Families across this country understand what it takes to manage a budget. They understand what it takes to make ends meet without forgoing important investments like education. Well, it’s time Washington acted as responsibly as our families do. And on Monday, I’m proposing a new budget that will help us live within our means while investing in our future.”
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Seven Percent Solution on February 14, 2011 at 1:07 AM
Well, Happy Vday, guys.
Nancy Pelosi is going to be my Valentine… which pol has screwed you over the most? Maybe they will agree to be you Vday date ;)
MeatHeadinCA on February 14, 2011 at 1:19 AM
OT…
Maybe Ed should have interviewed this guy while at CPAC…
Gohawgs on February 14, 2011 at 1:20 AM
The GOP couldn’t possibly have more just cause to defund. This is the stuff of an ideal world:
They just won an overwhelming mandate in the midterms largely based on repealing Obamacare.
The legislation is nationally unpopular.
All budget estimates were not only wrong but wildly off (and arguably misleading).
We now realize it will cost hundreds and thousands of jobs. Doctors are resigning left and right.
The federal court has just ruled it unconstitutional.
Yet they won’t defund it. Not only that, they can’t even find someone to speak up about the astonishing contempt by the administration to defy the court order.
It’s beyond farce. It’s a degrading insult to all of us and the country. This should really mean the end of the GOP.
rrpjr on February 14, 2011 at 1:29 AM
David Horowitz calls out Suhail Khan and Grover Norquist during his CPAC speech (go to 7:40 of the video).
steebo77 on February 14, 2011 at 1:33 AM
Well, Happy Vday, guys.
Nancy Pelosi is going to be my Valentine… which pol has screwed you over the most? Maybe they will agree to be you Vday date ;)
MeatHeadinCA on February 14, 2011 at 1:19 AM
Janet Napolitano is mine. I’m going to arrange to meet her at a restaurant in Juarez then not show up.
predator on February 14, 2011 at 1:35 AM
So much for GOP leadership…OR, intelligence…Or,…
Gohawgs on February 14, 2011 at 1:38 AM
I’m hoping Ed devotes a thread to this. Rush said he’s going to go further into it Monday. We need to mobilize, big time. We’re about to be benedict boehnered. Rush says that the gop are hiding behind “rules” that would require them to leave funding of obamacare in the main body of the continuing resolution bill while blocking any defunding of obamacare via amendment to the bill. Little known fun fact:
the “rules” the gop old guard are hiding behind to hang us were written by the same gop old guard. They can also be rewritten by the House gop at any point. Why have they been written to help the Left/Dems?
tigerlily on February 14, 2011 at 1:39 AM
What a total joke. A handful of average, reasonably well-educated, working Americans could balance the budget in a week. If Sarah Palin said as much tomorrow in a Facebook post she’d jump five points in popularity.
It’s really not possible to appreciate how stupid the GOP is to miss the opportunities sitting in front of their faces.
rrpjr on February 14, 2011 at 1:44 AM
Yes. The present gop attempt to fund obamacare, after the criminal way it was passed, (and let’s not forget Mitch McConnell making sure that the parliamentary manuvers that could have bottled obamacare in the Senate for months, from Christmas to Spring of 2010, thereby stopping the House from seeing it, much less passing it in March, 2010, were stopped by McConnell from being deployed while he infamously worked with Harry Ried to pass it to the House on Christmas Eve, ’09) alongside your points above and topping it all off their PLEDGE to elect them so that they COULD DEFUND obamacare are more than farce.
The Republic, if this passes, has no way to survive, absent a very quick third party/Tea Party changeover. But I think the culture is too far gone between the Left and the corrupted RINO right.
As I said earlier, there may be as many or more on the Right as the on Left who take orders and/or money from Soros and friends. Maybe we need to Wake up and smell the selling out of a nation. Or has it already been sold?
tigerlily on February 14, 2011 at 1:51 AM
You’re right…You’re right because the handful of ordinary Americans wouldn’t be filled with the desire to provide funding to their buddies, or to a favorite former activist group, or being blackmailed for some transgression, or in order to set up slush funds. The handful of ordinary Americans would be invested with a sense of responsibility for creating a better Country for them, their kids and their neighbors…
Gohawgs on February 14, 2011 at 1:55 AM
Like on purpose stupid. I fear we’ve backed the wrong horse by backing the gop because if they fund obamacare, the Republic is through. At that point, a third party will be the “nothing left to lose” and only desparate option left. I hope we go for it with all our might.
tigerlily on February 14, 2011 at 1:57 AM
What the hell are they talking about… reduce the deficits by 1.1 trillion over a decade??? The deficit was more like 1.5 trillion last year. YEAR. 1.1 trillion in a DECADE isn’t going to fix our fiscal state. It’s not even going to stop the bleeding. This is the fiscal equivalent of sending a sternly worded letter to the enemy.
joe_doufu on February 14, 2011 at 2:05 AM
Spine
Kini on February 14, 2011 at 2:20 AM
Gah, I just want to kick someone in the teeth when I hear a Dem talk about “investing in the future”.
That sound you hear is the cash being sucked out of your families wallets for the next several generations.
Midas on February 14, 2011 at 2:25 AM
Dear Gop, stop with the wet willy in the air, and listen to the Tea Party. Stop Ocare and cut the spending.
Me ke aloha pumehana,
Kini
p.s. stop acting Lolo
Kini on February 14, 2011 at 2:52 AM
Telegraphing his stabs in the back these days…
He may not be able to lift his arms over his head, but I guess that sort of locomotion is not necessary for slipping one between the ribs.
SuperCool on February 14, 2011 at 3:23 AM
OT, perhaps, or not – sorry about that.
I am going to repost what I just wrote at the “Sarah Palin Rips Time Magazine” thread which went off the headlines several hours ago. Why? Because Zero is ruining many of our lives.
Opinionator on February 14, 2011 at 3:52 AM
2nd that….
JUST DO IT
cmsinaz on February 14, 2011 at 6:13 AM
Happy Valentines Day to my HA family….
have a fabulous day with your sweeties
cmsinaz on February 14, 2011 at 6:14 AM
This runaway spending socialist said what?
Responsible spending like families?
That’s similar to abusing a little girl and telling her after to clean up and go to confession. We’re not the irresponsible ones Obama, or have you acheived your goals and now intend to pretend you’re really a nice guy who loves this Nation?
And the masses will still call him messiah…groan!
Don L on February 14, 2011 at 6:58 AM
There is a single mom down the street, living on a very tight budget, her house in clean, yard kept up, bills paid, kids are exceptional students and hard workers; she does struggle, God bless her, but she lives within her means and still provides for the family.
Put her in charge of the U.S. budget, and it would be cut and all the necessary services would be provided.
I would have more faith in her running our economic policy then all the economists who have put us in this horrible position.
Politicians are lacking one important ingredient…common sense.
right2bright on February 14, 2011 at 7:00 AM
$100 Billion a year?……..when the annual deficit is 12x that? 15x that?…..__x that?
How do the Chinese treat their provinces and Provincial governments?
Well gird your loins indeed if this is all the sissy leadership in DC can come up with then were headed there.
Dun-KY- Meriha-Kah……China’s newest province with it’s newly named provincial capital MaoZedong DC!
PappyD61 on February 14, 2011 at 7:11 AM
AGAIN…….THE PAPPY PLAN!!!
1. Seal the border.
2. Cut Federal Spending across the board 10%.
Simple, fair, quick, effective start to restoring our fiscal health!!
PappyD61 on February 14, 2011 at 7:17 AM
Hello my name is Barack Hussein Obama esq. I am a community organizer from the quaint village of Chicago. And I am e-mailing you to have you join me in a profitable enterprise called unemployment and poverty for you and good times for me. All you have to do is believe me as I spout about Hope and Change while I rob you blind. This seems fair to me so I am looking forward to hearing from you.
Cheshire Cat on February 14, 2011 at 7:26 AM
Anybody else get that e-mail?
Cheshire Cat on February 14, 2011 at 7:28 AM
mine probably went straight to spam :)
cmsinaz on February 14, 2011 at 7:33 AM
Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone!
Obama is still looking for the rest of his magic beans.
OT ~ On the Grammys last night, Gadsden flags were flashed on the monitors just before Muse played.
Fallon on February 14, 2011 at 8:37 AM
Obama is both a liar and an idiot — one of the most prominent of those who have helped bridge this epic divide.
The GOP can help expose him as the tax-and-spend liberal nitwit that he is by creating an automatic thought process for voters and stripping him of a rhetorical hiding place.
Simply repeat 1000 times on the news that Every Time You Hear Obama Say the Word “Investment”, Remember That He is Just Talking About More Government Spending. Investment = Spending.
Say it every single day for the next 60 days, and this issue will remain under complete GOP control. Getting the GOP to actually do what voters hired them to do? Different sort of a problem.
Jaibones on February 14, 2011 at 9:19 AM
Obama also wants to eliminate the tax deduction for charitable donations.
It has always been the Democrats’ dream to eliminate private charities altogether (and they have made strides), so the needy will only have the government to turn to, and then the dependent will always vote Democrat. Sickening.
Rae on February 14, 2011 at 12:15 PM
WTF with Malinvestment!
Rae on February 14, 2011 at 12:20 PM
Okay… I heard two guys talking about permanent disability Sat night… One is on such and will not be attempting to get a ‘real’ job because then he’d have to go off the gov.check system, perhaps never to be allowed back on (he mid 50s and has the ability to play… but not work).
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The other is maybe 35… hoping to get on the free ride train even though he has the ability to ‘hope to get a girl-friend soon’, and go out dancing as a way of locating same.
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Neither one of these guys is at 100% of the curve for health and intellect… But when I hear this kind of surrender to uselessness mentality, and realize that this is the attitude of many people… Damn, it’s both sad and frustrating.
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I blame every weak-ass libby that pushes for more and easier access to the dole… They are turning this country into a waste land of apathy… one social program at a time.
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The budget will never get balanced… we are rapidly approaching the tipping point. Buy land, guns, and can goods… Move away from the epicenters of the coming calamity.
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Buying gold may not help at all… Where you gonna sell it? Ask that before you buy gold. But food… Uh yup.
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RalphyBoy on February 14, 2011 at 1:01 PM
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