GOP focus for Congress: Cut deficit, don't stumble

[jakeXT]

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the first Republican-dominated Congress to confront President Barack Obama, GOP leaders will focus on bolstering the economy and cutting the budget — and oh yes, avoiding self-inflicted calamities that make voters wonder if the party can govern competently.

When the new Congress raises the curtain Tuesday, Republicans will run both the House and Senate for the first time in eight years. GOP leaders want to showcase their legislative priorities, mixing accomplishments with showdowns with Obama but shunning government shutdowns and other chaotic standoffs.

Another priority is minimizing distractions like the recent admission by No. 3 House leader Steve Scalise, R-La., that he addressed a white supremacist group in 2002.

"Serious adults are in charge here and we intend to make progress," incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told The Associated Press recently

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/f7d10bd644354e4da1fc7d2476cf3ab3/gop-focus-congress-cut-deficit-dont-stumble

[riversedge]

1. "Serious adults are in charge here..." says turtleface.

[Fred Sanders]

2. AP continues with the narrative that those clumsy but loveable Republicans are just getting their act

together, ignoring the historical fact of 6 years of acting like clowns...for sure AP says they wil change now, no more "distractions" like racists in leadership roles...

The mass media and their mass media news aggregators are the enemy of progressivism and liberalism.....do I need to put it in writing?

AP hearts GOP....again.

[world wide wally]

3. This is what sounds most responsible while wrecking the economy.

If they ever cared about deficits, they wouldn't have played along with Bush and Cheney.

[greymattermom]

4. The ACA cuts the deficit, right?

Now that will be interesting. Which is it?

[DFW]

5. If the past 6 years are any indication, then this means the following:

Republican leaders in Congress will now do a 180° and embrace Barack Obama's agenda to the fullest.

Under Obama, the deficit has been cut by two thirds (trend continuing), and the economy has bolstered from basket case to recovery on steroids (trend continuing). Under his predecessor, the budget deficit exploded and the economy imploded. So, either McTurtle acts like a serious adult and goes along with what's been working, or he acts like the spoiled brats he and his party have been, and goes back to the disaster policies of Cheneybush that brought us to our knees in the first place.