washingtonmonthly.com - 4/1/2009
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A BUDGET PERFECT FOR APRIL FOOLS' DAY.... Rumor has it that Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee, is one of the House GOP Caucus' sharper members. He has a reputation for knowing what...
House GOP Unveils Its Budget Shiny Packet of Goals
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 3/26/2009 — Stung by their stereotyping as the "party of no," House Republicans eagerly promoted the unveiling of their alternative to President Obama's budget today -- but when they finished speaking, reporters had one big question: Where's the actual budget ? ...
GOP unveils budget to Dems' ridicule
swamppolitics.com 3/27/2009 — by Frank James
House Republicans proudly introduced their alternative to President Barack Obama's $3.6 trillion budget today. And the Democrats laughed at it.
The GOP lawmakers gamely called their budget plan "The Republican Road to Recovery." ...
GOP Offers Embarrassing Budget Proposal
poliblogger.com 3/27/2009 — Faced with the task of providing a counterproposal to President Obama’s budget. the Republicans have offered one of their own (sorta). If one surfs over to GOP.gov one can find at The Road to Recovery Begins Here , which is a summary page and ...
More Republican Budget Details
dailykos.com 3/28/2009 — Fresh from the GOP think tanks, we've got even more details on the super-duper Republican budget plan . Heck, I just can't figure out how eight years of rule by these folks led to an economic disaster. I mean, this is good stuff, right?
The Word of the Day: Budgetish
americablog.com 3/31/2009 — 1. Budget-ish Adjective 1. Of or resembling a budget. Lacks specificity such as numbers and/or ideas. Usually encased in blue glossy folder and 19-pages, including cover pages and table of contents. Noun 2. State requisite for GOP press conference. ...
GOP Budget Plan Assumes Americans Would Choose Higher Tax Rate
huffingtonpost.com 4/1/2009 — House Republicans set themselves a high bar last week when they promised to deliver an alternative budget that drastically slashed taxes while also cutting the deficit further than the White House has proposed.
The Republican budget blueprint ...
White House: House GOP Budget A "Joke"
huffingtonpost.com 4/1/2009 — The House Republican alternative budget won't be released until later Wednesday morning but already the Obama administration is mocking it as a sad April Fools prank.
"If you expected a GOP alternative to the failed policies of the past that got ...
Stupid, Greedy, and/or Delusional
mahablog.com 4/3/2009 — Yesterday the House and Senate passed budget bills with no Republican votes whatsoever. Yet even without the GOP the bill passed the House with the biggest majority for a budget in 12 years. Carl Hulse writes for the New York Times ,
Democrats said the two budgets, which will have to be ...
Budget Bullets
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 4/3/2009 —
Some points on the budget resolutions that have passes the House and the Senate:
A few House Democrats defected from the Democratic position, but a larger number of House Republicans voted “no” on the GOP leadership’s ...
Democrats' Budgetary Sleight of Hand
weeklystandard.com 3/27/2009 — Yesterday, Congressman Paul Ryan, the senior Republican on the House Budget Committee, laid out the problems with the House Democrats' budget resolution:
Simply put, President Obama has promised so much that it's impossible to deliver it ...
GOP Leadership Rivals Throw Mike Pence Under the Bus
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 3/27/2009 — I’ve seen a lot of people link to this Glenn Thrush Politico item , but I have a slightly different take on it:
House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) raised objections to an abbreviated alternative budget ...
Rep. Ryan Clueless About The Deficit Effect Of His Radical Tax Cuts
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org 3/30/2009 — Last week, we noted that NPR let Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) trash the spending in the Obama administration’s proposed budget, without having to answer for the deficit effects of his own proposal to slash taxes for the wealthy and corporations . In ...
Ryan previews Republican budget
briefingroom.thehill.com 4/1/2009 — In a Wall Street Journal op-ed today, Rep. Paul Ryan (D-WI), the ranking member of the House Budget Committee, previews the Republican budget to be revealed later this morning.
The major components, according to Ryan, include:
SPENDING: A five year ...
April Fools: GOP Budget a New Windfall for the Wealthy
crooksandliars.com 4/1/2009 — It may be April Fool's Day 2009, but the Republican Party is playing the same joke on the American people. After brushing off last week's calamitous Republican "road to recovery" blueprint as a "marketing document," Rep. Paul Ryan unveiled the GOP's ...
The Paul Ryan-Hebert Hoover Budget
downwithtyranny.blogspot.com 4/1/2009 — When the Republican Party's designated spokesperson is Joe the Plumber (watch the video below), even a shallow, blow-dried phony-baloney hack like Paul Ryan (R-WI) looks almost intellectual in his approach to slavish adherence to right-wing dogma ...
GOP Bashes Obama Budget With 8-Month-Old Data
huffingtonpost.com 4/2/2009 — As part of the alternative budget rollout on Tuesday, Rep. Paul Ryan published in a Wall Street Journal op-ed a chart plotting out the spending projections between the "Democratic Budgets" and "Republican Alternative."
The ominous graph gives the ...
That GOP "Budget"
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 4/2/2009 — Conor Clarke :
As near as I can tell, Paul Ryan and his staff just took the CBO projections that ended in 2019 and drew a random line, extending upward at about a 45 degree angle, until 2080. There's no real attempt to make it look scientific. ...
McCain, Ryan have head to head with Cao
briefingroom.thehill.com 4/2/2009 — Two high-profile Republicans paid special attention Wednesday to Rep. Joseph Cao (La.), the lone Republican who might buck his party and support the Democratic budget.
Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), the GOP presidential nominee last year, and Budget ...
4/2: You Can't Be Serious! —
Blogometer
After ridiculing the 19-page alternative budget that the House GOP leadership released last week, liberal bloggers are now attacking the more detailed version that was released yesterday. Lefty bloggers are calling the GOP budget "ridiculous" and are describing the GOP...
About that ugly GOP budget projection —
The Reaction
Guest post by Boatboy Boatboy is the author of the blog The View from the Docks . I've been reading the various posts by several eloquent individuals who have thoroughly and effectively dissected the GOP "budget" documents. Doing so, I noticed that there is something in the data that ...
Senate GOP dabbles in budget policy —
Political Animal
SENATE GOP DABBLES IN BUDGET POLICY.... House Republicans clearly had some trouble crafting a budget alternative, and when the caucus finally unveiled a proposal, it was a rather pathetic joke. But what about the upper chamber? Will Senate Republicans try...
More Details On GOP Budget Alternative - 10% Tax Rate —
Right Soup
Following up on Obama’s criticism that they’ve become the “Party of No,” the GOP has released its 2010 Budget alternative plan. The details are thin at the moment as it’s still rolling out, but check out the highlights on a drastically cut tax rate: 10% for the ...
The GOP's Alternative Budget —
The American Spectator
This morning Congressman Paul Ryan, the ranking Republican on the
House Budget Committee, will release the GOP alternative budget,
which will come up for a vote on the House floor. This budget
...
About that alternative GOP budget... —
Political Animal
ABOUT THAT ALTERNATIVE GOP BUDGET.... There were, we were told, two main reasons for Republican lawmakers to present an alternative budget. In the face of near-constant criticism from the White House and Democratic leaders on the Hill, the GOP's first...
House and Senate GOP to host bicameral budget meeting —
News
Republicans in the House and Senate are set to meet behind closed doors Wednesday morning in order to banter about the President's budget, according to a statement released by GOP leaders.
The purpose of the rare House/Senate Republican conference is to echo their oft heard contention that ...
DNC seeks to raise funds off GOP budget —
News
I would imagine this video will make its way around the liberal blogosphere. The Democratic National Committee is trying to fund raise off of the alternative budget the GOP presented last week.
The web ad pokes fun a the Republicans' outline for being light on specifics. Check it out ...
Early Morning Mockery: GOP "Budget" Edition —
Open Left - Front Page
DNC Web Ad: The Number Zero...
"It does not have, in the sense of a traditional budget, numbers...."
Oh, well, so much for "traditional values." Just one more thing the GOP seems to have lost, along with all its marbles.
With the GOP is this much disarray--a level not seen since ...
3/27: The Budget That Wasn't —
Blogometer
NBC's First Read described yesterday's House GOP budget rollout as "a P.R. disaster for the GOP," and a quick scan of the blogosphere confirms the accuracy of that description. Liberal bloggers are ridiculing the House GOP leadership for unveiling a...
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