washingtonmonthly.com - 3/26/2009
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'HERE IT IS'.... When House Republicans unveiled their not-really-a-budget budget this morning, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) sounded like he had something real to offer. "Two nights ago, the president said, 'We haven't seen a budget yet out of...
huffingtonpost.com - 3/26/2009
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huffingtonpost.com —
House Republican leaders called a press conference Thursday
to unveil their "alternative budget." While it was thin...
on specifics, it does include one major policy proposal: a huge tax cut for the wealthy. Under the Republican plan, the top ...
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GOP Budget Proposal: Massive Tax Cut For Wealthy
fivethirtyeight.com - 3/27/2009
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fivethirtyeight.com —
The Republican "Road to Recovery" budget alternative ,
rolled out today by John Boehner, has been criticized...
by left and right for its lack of specificity and its promise to eliminate the national debt while significantly cutting taxes. ...
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The Real Republican Road to Recovery
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Fake GOP 'Budget' Calls For Massive Tax Cuts for Wealthy
Library Grape —
So, the Republicans in Congress unveiled their "detailed" alternative to Obama's budget today. How detailed, you ask? Seventeen whole pages of detail! That's how much! All scoffing aside on how pitifully meager the fake "budget" proposal was (many in the mainstream media were openly laughing at the document today), there was a really frightening sentence in there that is sending chills up my spine: "Republicans propose a simple and fair tax code with a marginal ...
So predictable: The Republican tax-slashing non-budget
The Reaction —
... As Steve Benen points out, it's not a "budget" at all, let alone a "detailed" one. And it's just more of the same, and worse, from a party that has simply run out of ideas (and that didn't exactly have many good ones to begin with): ...
From the "Since you asked…" file.
Upper Left —
Steve Benen inquires... "If Republicans aren't going to take their own ideas seriously, why should anyone else?"Since you asked, there's no reason at all to take their ideas seriously, whether they do or not. In fact, there's no reason for Republicans whatsoever. ...
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