Personally we've vacillated between the budget is ok, to the budget aint so bad, to the budget is a travesty, to the budget aint so bad and finally back to the budget is ok.
Do you people whining about this spending bill realize the GOP just got the Dems to fork over an extra $60 billion for defense?
Your average Democrat hates the military. This is the party that 10 years ago was actively working against the armed forces in Iraq. Look I'm not blaming you for that, Dems. It's in your DNA. The Iraq War, the Vietnam War, the Cold War, the Civil War....
Anyway, I remember when the Berlin wall came down the Dems were screaming that the defense budget should be cut in half with money for Abrams tanks going to Congressman Barney Frank's program for at risk young men. To a Democrat a mid-course interceptor comes at the cost of thousands of community grants for transgendered performance artists. Your typical Dem looks at a new Virginia class submarine and thinks, 'Ted Kennedy's Buick didn't cost that much and it could go underwater.'
So this money for defense is a big fucking deal, to use VP Biden's terminology upon passing Obamacare, which is not subsidized in this bill. That's a hell of a lot more important than the actual budget.
Senator Rand Paul is doing yeoman's work actually reading the damn thing, something the rest of these plonckers won't do.
[Ploncker's-Ed]
I'm on a roll...anyway Paul is finding 10m here, 55m there.
Not only is that not the change you find in your dryer, that's not even the lint in the collection basket.
The big budget busting items are Defence, Medicare/Medicaid and Social Security. If you're into fiscal responsibility - I just threw up even typing those words - those are the items that matter, and nothing else.
These budgetary issues will be forgotten in 10 days and we can all get back to hammering Robert Mueller and waging war on the Deep State, all of which matter a hell of a lot more than this bill.
But all you whiners are correct, really. Hotair says it better than I could, the GOP is a soulless party. I've been following these people my entire adult life, and they don't mean it, not since Newt got his beans re-fried in the government shutdown of '95, twenty-three freaking years ago. Which happens to be the last time anyone bothered to even try to do anything about Medicare.
Sorry folks. No one cares. There is no constituency for fiscal responsibility.
Do you people whining about this spending bill realize the GOP just got the Dems to fork over an extra $60 billion for defense?
Your average Democrat hates the military. This is the party that 10 years ago was actively working against the armed forces in Iraq. Look I'm not blaming you for that, Dems. It's in your DNA. The Iraq War, the Vietnam War, the Cold War, the Civil War....
Anyway, I remember when the Berlin wall came down the Dems were screaming that the defense budget should be cut in half with money for Abrams tanks going to Congressman Barney Frank's program for at risk young men. To a Democrat a mid-course interceptor comes at the cost of thousands of community grants for transgendered performance artists. Your typical Dem looks at a new Virginia class submarine and thinks, 'Ted Kennedy's Buick didn't cost that much and it could go underwater.'
So this money for defense is a big fucking deal, to use VP Biden's terminology upon passing Obamacare, which is not subsidized in this bill. That's a hell of a lot more important than the actual budget.
Senator Rand Paul is doing yeoman's work actually reading the damn thing, something the rest of these plonckers won't do.
[Ploncker's-Ed]
I'm on a roll...anyway Paul is finding 10m here, 55m there.
Not only is that not the change you find in your dryer, that's not even the lint in the collection basket.
The big budget busting items are Defence, Medicare/Medicaid and Social Security. If you're into fiscal responsibility - I just threw up even typing those words - those are the items that matter, and nothing else.
These budgetary issues will be forgotten in 10 days and we can all get back to hammering Robert Mueller and waging war on the Deep State, all of which matter a hell of a lot more than this bill.
But all you whiners are correct, really. Hotair says it better than I could, the GOP is a soulless party. I've been following these people my entire adult life, and they don't mean it, not since Newt got his beans re-fried in the government shutdown of '95, twenty-three freaking years ago. Which happens to be the last time anyone bothered to even try to do anything about Medicare.
Sorry folks. No one cares. There is no constituency for fiscal responsibility.
[There's those words again-Ed]
I know, right?
By the way, I think Trump is in a good negotiating pos with the Dems vis a vis the wall, DACA and all the rest, which is a hell of a lot more important than the budget.
I know, right?
By the way, I think Trump is in a good negotiating pos with the Dems vis a vis the wall, DACA and all the rest, which is a hell of a lot more important than the budget.
So budget that.
Now myself and familia de Stroock are off for a long weekend in Washington, which thankfully is not closed.
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