Boehner: Time for Government Spending Freeze

8500 pork spending earmarks.
“President Obama campaigned against wasteful spending last year and has renewed commitment to fight it now that he is in office.”
Your lead Mr. President. We all know what you said. What will you do? Live up to your word? Or be known as a liar?
Your lead.

harsh spending cuts during a deep recession. Why not? Sure it was a disaster in the 30′s and mainstream economists agree it is a stupid idea, but what a great slogan for 2010! It’ll play even better than when they lambasted Clinton’s attempt to kill that Bin Laden guy as “Monica Missiles” – boy, that was a great soundbite and made sure Clinton never tried that again.

How long before the Obama appologists show up bashing this guy because he is a republican and said something logical. Cue the hatred.

Dave:”How long before the Obama appologists show up bashing this guy because he is a republican and said something logical. ”
Based on the historical record and well documented economic opinions everyone just hashed out during the long month of stimulus debate – how is drastically cutting government spending logical? They are just trying to get a redo on the stimulus, gutting normal budget funding to ensure the stimulus fails.
That is the logical intrepretation. Perhaps you can explain the logic of passing a Keynsian stimulus one month and then the next month gutting the budget. Please, what is the logic in that other than petulantly trying to undo the stimulus passed by a supermajority of representatives?

jhw
It is probably worthless to respond to you types…but it’s worth a try.
Where in my post did you find anything that suggested I “hated” the President?
The President said what he said. The Bill is full of what it is. Why the accusations of any discussion against it being hateful?

Time to get rid of the liberal socialist idiot Obama. Impeach Obama now.

Based on the historical record and well documented economic opinions everyone just hashed out during the long month of stimulus debate -
Does anyone remember when this happened?
Not me.
What I remember … Pelosi, Frank and the Democrats — “We Won” — deciding what would be in the stimulus without including the other party. They voted in the house and got it passed because they didn’t need ANY and I repeat ANY support from Republicans. Then they passed a bigger document page wise in the Senate that no one READ and the last “yea” vote came from a guy they had to fly back in from his mother’s wake and who also hadn’t read it ….
Is this what you think passes for debate?
Please.

Brant:”The President said what he said. The Bill is full of what it is. Why the accusations of any discussion against it being hateful?”
For reference, you said:
“Your lead Mr. President. We all know what you said. What will you do? Live up to your word? Or be known as a liar?
Your lead.”
You inferred that he was breaking his promise. Yet you don’t cite his promise in HIS WORDS, preferring to infer use a common negative formulation (we know what you said/did). Then you proceed to aggressively challenge him, are you a liar or not, after setting up this negative allusion.
Propaganda isn’t that hard to spot. You’re a natural at it. Discussion about Obama’s policy positions are NOT at all hateful. The underhanded attack you made followed with your disingenuous “what did I do?” wide-eyed innocent look is. Feel free to post Obama’s promise IN HIS OWN WORDS, not a headline from a talking head, if you honestly believe your comment was not clearly a negative attack.

The GOP Taliban just isn’t going to be happy until this country is in cinders. They are doing everything within their power to destroy us. I think Wall Street would be doing better if it wasn’t for the negativism of the GOP and its efforts to undermine Obama at every turn.
It amazes me that their prescription for recovery is to do “NOTHING”. The same mentality they used to drive the bus into the economic ditch. Inside ever Republican is a little Hoover waiting to get out and start a depression.

beebop:”What I remember … Pelosi, Frank and the Democrats — “We Won” — deciding what would be in the stimulus without including the other party.”
FACT: The stimulus includes admendements WRITTEN BY REPUBLICANS.
FACT: Birth control funding was pulled at the explict request of Republicans.
FACT: The national mall renovation was pulled at the explicit request of Republicans.
FACT: Aid to states was cut to make way for a Republican-championed $70 billion Alternative Minimum Tax cut (benefiting primarily those making over $60k-$200k a year) – that’s almost 10% of the bill’s total cost.
FACT: Beebop’s memory has ZERO credibility when hysterically ranting Republicans were not included.

40% of this bill is GOP pork, and it is a bill they worked on LAST YEAR , how does that equal an Obama spending bill. It seems to me history is being re-written as we speak. And I think given the mental state of some of the folks on the right we do have a real problem with seeing things as they really are. We have to have the back and forth of a two party system in order for America to work. We can not scream and carry on when the people in Washington are actually doing their job. However I do wish they would stop with the sound bite asides we see in the news. Fight it out and hammer out a plan and vote on it and stop all this other aside remarks for TV stuff.

Brant:” Is it possible, in your mind, to be a conservative that voted for Obama? ”
Certainly, seeing as how there are at least a half dozen legitimate definitions of conservatives and the Republican party only fits a few of them at the moment. But if you want to use the real definitions rather than however the propaganda has pushed the label this week, both the candidates were liberal (promising a significant change from the status quo and past practices).

I am sick of hearing it. I am sick of arguing about it. I have heard it from the GOP since Nixon. Same crap, same results.

J Johnson:” These people are just plain stupid.”
Don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater. The GOP is currently in the final stages of a fling with religious fundamentalists. In the 90′s, they proved they can be a very valuable opposition. They just need to finish buring out the radical liberal leadership.
Creating Homeland security, the Patriot act, with us or against us, slashing taxes below the level of any modern economy in the world, single handledly building a democracy in the middle east – these are NOT conservative by any definition, and neither is the GOP.

This is an incredibly reckless and out of touch statement from the GOP. Spending freeze? And how are jobs supposed to be created?
http://www.political-buzz.com/

I agree with Boehner. If we freeze government spending, we’ll have the resources for other, more important things. Like getting to the bottom of President Obama’s birth records and deciding whether Terry Schiavo should remain on life support.

your refund checks are going to be a box of government office supplies and old public announcement posters. If your lucky it might be a spiffy new logo, the one with the 25% machine 25% farm and 50% government.

So says John Boehner, who has insisted that Republican staffing levels in Congress remain at the same levels despite losing a number of House and Senate seats. Instead he wants the same number of staff as the Dems despite fewer representatives.

Or maybe Boehner decided this was a great idea when you know…OBAMA DID IT FOR THE WHITE HOUSE STAFF.

That is the STUPIDEST thing I have heard in a long time. The problem right now is that we are NOT spending the way we should be doing thus the economy is going down.
The government is the last resort in terms of spending and that is EXACTLY what we should be doing right now.

We can’t say that it is a stunt to want to freeze spending. There were many opposed to the bailouts when Bush first pushed it, the democrtic controlled congress passed it and 78 billion of 350 billion was promptly wasted. If we as earners and consumers are cutting our spending while the Government increases it then what darn good have we done? Today Obama is touting 25 jobs for policemen but is anyone asking how much those jobs cost each of us.
A hiring- spending freeze at state and federal levels a massive tax cut for everyone who pays taxes would allow people to buy cars, pay home mortgages and buy health insurance.
It just seems everything is being done backasswards.

Again. The Repulican Senators held 100 cloture filibusters or threat to and 39 threats of veto by President Bush during the so called majority held by the Democrates after the 2006 elections. Hundreds of wasted days but still got paid and free health care benefits. At least be honest when talking about majority anything.

Seems like the stock markets are a better benchmark for how the country is viewing all the spending being done by the Democrat controlled House & Senate. The markets have taken the biggest hits since the Clinton era of spend-a-thons. Why is the faith of everyday Americans being quashed by the socialists that are now in power? If panic reins then they will surely be able to say what BHO said last fall,” that there will be changes made that America doesn’t agree with…” He gave us a heads up and some of us didn’t listen to the projected outcomes of his actions and his presidency.God Save America & God Bless Her Troops.

THis is all that OBAMAUNIST’s fault!
FIrst they socialized safety with the Police, then fire prevention with the firemans, and then sewerage with the sewer system, and then electricity with the electrical utility, and then national security with the army, and then cancer and disease research with the CDCs, and then uh,
What was the question

I say we need a freeze on consuming copious amounts of hard liquor while the house is in order……wouldn’t it be great to watch the Boner suffer through the D.T.s?

YOu willa ll see what happens when the socialistic policies of the NOT AMERICAN Presdunce OBummer ruin our country!
Nah, I’m just kidding. Seriously, how stupid do you have to be to think that our current problems are not the direct result of the ignorant, self-interested policies that the GOP has been pushing since the early 1980s? Boehner has no idea what to do, no power to change or shape the debate, and can sit on the sidelines trying to lob inflammatory populist nonsense like this into the mix. He’s a waste of space, to be honest, and he oversaw the defeat of his party. Why they’ve not run him out of town on a rail is the real question. The answer is, because there is a leadership vacuum in the GOP that’s about to become a blackhole, sucking them all to hell, like in that movie “Event Horizon.”

brant ,jhw is (like too many republicans ) 110% sure of his “facts”.
unfortunately for jhw , democrats/liberals don’t have a stranglehold on the truth .
we ,as democratic taxpayers ,should be objectively dissecting everything this administration does ,and subsequently evaluating/grading it’s performance just as harshly and severely as we would if there were a republican majority calling the shots in washington dc..
in that capacity,i.e. an inquiring and concerned american voter/taxpayer , i would say that there is definitely some excess pork in the stimulus bill ( which is personally ok with me as long as the richest 2% pay for it ) but to vehemently argue that there is no/little pork tacked onto the stimulus package or that the status quo earmarking is inconsequential (just because jhw says so), makes me wonder if the elephant in the room is invisible to some people ,or just convenient to ignore.
jhw ,liberals need credibility ,and your comments aren’t helping.
the democratic party ,like all political parties ,needs some reasonable introspection at times ,and with pelosi/reid at the helm with their hands (too much i think ,personally) on the wheel ,i am not as confident of actually achieving the aforementioned genuine/effective party introspection, as well as the obama campaign promises of a more transparent and bipartisan governmental process as i could be.
in a nutshell, i am a happy liberal because obama personally is doing a great majority the things i like and approve of ,but i find it hard to defend some of the other democratic career politicians in office ,some of whom are definitely guilty of unneeded/ unhelpful partisanship at this most critical time in this nations’ history.
COME TOGETHER…RIGHT NOW!!

RICKY DEAN THE DREAM YOUR IN A DREAM WORLD AND ITS ABOUT TO TURN INTO A NIGHTMARE GOOD LUCK WITH THE LIBERALS IT WILL NEVER WORK. DONT THINK IN THE BOX ALWAYS THINK OUT OF THE BOX.

ricky dean the dream:”to vehemently argue that there is no/little pork tacked onto the stimulus package or that the status quo earmarking is inconsequential (just because jhw says so)”
Just because I say so? Cute how you ignore my cited reasoning and rationale and prefer just a personal attack.
Would you care to offer any actual facts to the debate, or just continue to slander me? Does it make sense to cut spending after the need for radically increased government spending was just accepted by a super majority? And rather than sloganeering about pork, how about discussing the actual wasteful spending?
“jhw ,liberals need credibility ,and your comments aren’t helping.”
If posting my actual facts and rationale for my opinion harms credibility, then I am obviously not talking to you.

natale , i prefer critical and unbiased objectivity first , creativity second.
thinking outside the box is fine and sometimes quite useful and effective ,but generally only if you have the perspective en total in focus at the same time.
watch more c-span and read/watch all you can thats even slightly relevant from rush/fox to chavez/castro . attempt to create in yourself an educated ,informed ,objective opinion with empirical facts as your sword/shield ,not rhetoric and hyperbole and you will be better prepared for your intellectual forays “outside the box”…

The media has documented that the more that the Republicans bash the president, the more their public ratings go lower. The same is happening each time that they criticize the stimulus package. Apparently the public sees them as the crybabies and obstructionists that they are. It will be a long time before the public forgets that it was the Republican policies that got the country into this financial mess.

Obama Daily Tracking Poll
still dropping.

ricky dean the drean:”jhw ,the facts are what they are. you can either accept or deny them. in one instance , you are being true to yourself and the facts at hand , in the other you are misleading yourself for whatever reason ,internal or external.
i wont try to make a horse drink water ,but i will lead it to the waterhole if i can.”
You have offered NO FACTS. No rationale. Just rambling opinion. I stated facts, and I accept those facts. They are indeed what they are.
“natale , i prefer critical and unbiased objectivity first , creativity second.”
Great. Do you like Coke or Pepsi? That’s about as relevant to the debate. Do you offer any reasoning to support your opinions (it is quite simple to read your posts and find you have not offered even one fact)? Or just mock me for posting facts and the logic that supports my opinion?

“…8,500 earmarked special projects inserted by lawmakers.” ”
umm which lawmakers would they be referring to jhw?
democrats or republicans? i mean someone put 8500 earmarks on this bill ,and there is a “supermajority” of democrats running the show (at least according to jhw statistics ) ,so it would seem that most likely the DEMOCRATS are probably MOSTLY RESPONSIBLE for the earmarks.
(that would be the occams razor solution .i.e. the most obvious.)
or are you contending that the minority republicans stuffed all their wishlist earmarks onto this bill while nancy and harry sat quietly and did nothing?

OK Justin. Stop with “Obama tracking poll still dropping.
Go here:
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/obama_approval_index_history
The approval trend is up. That’s spelled “up” and it means “the opposite of down” or “not dropping” so please shut up. Thank you.

How have “conservatives” and “‘R’ebuclicans” reached this frenzied state of cognitive dissonance? I feel like I am living in a totally different reality than that of hardcore conservatives. How long can you all vote against your own interests until you realize it only profits the people that never cared about your lives?

gop=the sky is falling, doom and
gloom,the usa is going to end,
why didn’t they speak up when
billions were and are going to
iraq for a good example of money
down a rathole……for nothing.

Republican members of Congress have added their share of “pork” or “earmarks” whatever you want to call them. Mitch McConnell (KY) said that the 53 earmarks for Kentucky ($78,000,000) were added last year. Kyle said that the 9 he added had already been approved before ($25,000,000). The contingent from Texas were reported to have added around $200,000,000 worth. Republicans and Democrats have contributed to that.
Ensign from Nevada said that earmarks are the way smaller states can get their share of federal dollars.
President Obama said he was going to work at getting this changed. We’ve discovered in the last two months that there is a terrific amount of inertia in Washington and it takes more effort to get things moving than one would ordinarily think.
Calling for a halt to government spending is not going to get things moving.

Some of the blogs on here from Republicans border on lunacy to the point where medication is needed. There IS a world outside of their tiny hostile little conservative reality; a world of optimism and hope, even after the past eight years. I’m sorry you folks are so angry. Try to channel it into something productive.

It blows my mind that Republicans “decry” the earmarks when 40% of them came from Republicans. Talk about a credibility problem for them. Just one more step toward irrelevance…

Boehner: Time for Government Spending Freeze
Good idea.

I am prepared to say the one thing that Rush would not. I want this Socialist to fail!!! is that clear enough for you? The Constitution gives no allowance for handouts to the “Whiners” and “losers” in this country. It gives you the pursuit of happiness. Work for what you get and be free!! The dirty little secret about Freedom is …….your on your own. If the Government is in your life you are not free. I know it and you also know it deep down even if you don’t admit it aloud.
God Bless you and God Bless America!

I usually back Republican, but if I hear any politician calling for a spending freeze, Republican, Democrat or lizard I will support them. Stop the bleeding now. I say support these folks that got laid off with unemployment till they get back to work. That is something I can get behind. Cut those taxes and small business will build this country back to its great free stature! Who is with me? We the people can do it. We do not need Washington.
God Bless us all ……

I would like just one of you people who champion “spending freeze” as a needed solution toward solving this financial crisis. Let me start from the top ones in the news. BOA instituted a spending freeze, Citi bank did the same, AIG also, GM, Chrysler, GE, Sears Holding, Broadcom, International Game Technology, Catepillar, Eastman Kodak, Textron, Ford, Black & Decker, Walt Disney, Starbucks, Target, Time Warner, Texas Instruments, IBM, Microsoft, International, Sprint Nextel, Pfizer, Home Depot, Abercrombie & Fitch, Harley Davidson, UAL, SPX, Wynn Resorts, Clear Channel, Deere & Co. …..the list goes on and on. What do all of these companies have in common? They all instituted SPENDING FREEZES and just what did that lead to? They all have LAID OFF workers. Of course there are more. So, just what do you think would happen if the United States Government institutes SPENDING FREEZES. If you guessed layoffs, you’re 100% correct. In a financial downturn such as now, that’s exactly the WRONG approach to take. We need to do just the opposite, even if money does have to be borrowed. Spending creates jobs which creates revenue which will eventually get all of the above companies re-hiring in order to produce more for the increased demand. I grant you, the money that the government does spend needs to be spent responsibly with very good oversight. Rush Limbaugh is wrong, Sean Hannity is wrong, and John Boehner is wrong and also acting just as irresponsible as Limbaugh and Hannity. He is playing a political game and we can’t afford political games right now.

The only way Obama is a socialist is if you are an ignoramus.

The louder and more hysterical the political left gets in its defense of the man it elected, the more obvious it becomes that President Obama is not living up to expectations. You call republicans some pretty nasty names, but the facts are that 1.) democrats have controlled Congress, and spending, for the past 2+ years, 2.) republicans and some moderate democrats are trying to stop the wasteful spending, and 3.) President Obama is not honoring the promises he made during the election (no lobbyists, no earmarks, a new tone in Washington, blah, blah, blah.) Just words? Just speeches? Yes, sad but true.

You know, there was a time I think when every German had to have a portrait of Hitler in their house. I wonder if Republicans have to do the same with Rush Limphead? Most probably do anyway. It makes me sick to think about such twisted sickness lurking around.

The current leaders of the Republican party are seditious buffoons. The likes of John B0NER, Mitch McConnelll and now, apparently the 800 lb pig of the County Fair, Flushbo Limbaugh are part of this conspiratorial cast of knuckle-walkers who are engaging in a pre-planned campaign to derail the new President’s attempts to dig the country out of the GOP-made mess. that this entire party full of right wing clowns has been up to their eyeballs making for the last 30 years, but more specificalliy the last eight. The ‘in-denial’ truth-twisting GOP and its minority-in-number-army of morons still believe they are qualified to sit in carping judgment and unfairly blame a man who has barely been in office a month. The hyena-pack of GOP pirates and thieves actually believe their own lies or else they just dishonestly refuse to admit the plain truth that they themselves are responsible for the current meltdown we see all around us. It was they, not the Democrats who did this. So: by any reasonable person’s way of thinking, the vast assemblage of right wing peabrains should henceforth be known as “the axis of weevils” or maybe “the axis of drivel” or both.