Bush spotlights economy; warns Congress on spending (radio address)

[maddezmom]

WHITE HOUSE Amid all the gloom about Iraq, President Bush thinks positive signs on the U-S economy aren't getting enough publicity.

So he's using his weekend radio chat to highlight what he sees as the latest good news, yesterday's report that consumer prices were unchanged in November.

The report followed two straight monthly declines. Combined with a rising stock market and job figures, the president thinks it shows the economy's humming along.

But Bush will warn the new Democratic Congress that one way to wreck the party is by overspending. And he'll urge an attack on one particular kind of spending known as "earmarks." That's when a lawmaker slips a targeted home-district program into a big spending bill.

Link: http://www.whnt.com/global/story.asp?s=5823014

full text here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/12/20061216.html

[Frank Cannon]

1. I agree; no more spending...

on this miserable goddam war.

[rebel with a cause]

2. you tell them bushie

never mind that you have squandered away the surplus, and we are now drowning in this huge deficit. That we now owe China more than we can pay back for generations. Never mind all that, you got to warn those democrats not to spend. You know how they are.:sarcasm:

[Frustratedlady]

3. No more spending? By the Democrats?

Who just asked for $140B beyond the budget for that dang war? I may have my numbers wrong, but after hearing all the million$ and billion$ that have been thrown around by this clown, it all kind of forms into a haze and I lose track.

Each day, he is swirling further and further down in that quagmire he's in...and, he's taking us with him.

[TheFarseer]

4. We're doing remarkably poorly

for spending $400 billion more per year than we have to spend. If president bush can get all those countries to cancel the $9 trillion dollar deficit, then I will give him credit for having a mediocre economy. Right now I give him credit for spending tons of money we don't have and not even getting a wild ride out of it.

[SutaUvaca]

5. The Chumpster is now, among all else, a plagiarist.

Pelosi should sue the bozo for using her ideas as though it was his own.

What a ridiculous numnut.

[jamesinca]

10. not plagiarist

I think what he is trying to do is take their idea, and when it works, he will say it is his strong leadership and the dems finally got some sense by listening to a traditional, fiscally responsible conservative. He has done this with other things during his tenure. Or he is saying this, will do the opposite, and blame the dem congress for being irresponsible. After all he can point back to the radio address as having said it and having the idea. What it does is give him some part of the idea, if it works then he takes ownership. If it fails, then it was just a bad idea. That is what he does. Give credit where credit is due, not this administration.

[Jack Rabbit]

11. He's also done that shamelessly throughout his political career

And I've got a bridge and some beachfront property by the Sea of Tranquility for anybody who thinks Bush is a "traditional, fiscally responsible conservative."

[MGD]

6. "one way to wreck the party is by overspending"---And he should know. nt

[tabasco]

7. Hahahahahahahaha!!!!! GW Bush is speaking of fiscal restraint??

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EVERY DIME TO MY BILLIONAIRE FRIENDS !!!!

[rodeodance]

8. he uses the US credit card with NO accountability and Lectures to Dems

damm!

[HuffleClaw]

9. "Over the past year, the Republican Congress succeeded in eliminating...

...virtually all earmarks for three major Cabinet departments."


ok, let me guess. education, environment and social security related stuff.

[barb162]

12. Consumer prices were unchanged in November?

News to me. What I'm buying is getting more expensive. And there are no positive signs in the economy. He needs to take a look at REAL unemployment and underemployment, the deficit, the fall of the dollar, the number of homeless, etc.

[Jennicut]

13. Allrightie there Chimp, not being a hypocrite there are ya?

What a FREAKING LOSER!!!! It was him and his Rethug congress that created one of the most corrupt, pork barrel, overspending, non oversight congressional periods in history. The "do-nothing" congress actually did a lot, to spend our money on needless ridiculous things. The gall that man has to chastise the Dems, "Now don't you little boys and girls go on a spending spree there...heh heh." Loser. Like the Dems really need his little warning. The Repubs who were thrown out on their collective asses and the ones still there were some of the worst over spenders in history. I may actually miss Chimpy at the very least for his laughable comments. I won't miss his ability to screw up everything including what had been a budget surplus into the worst deficit ever.

[tom_paine]

14. Stunning, laughable hypocrisy. Chimp spends like a drunken sailor

Fuck you, Chimp. You are such a sociopathic liar. Worst. President. EVER!

[Zorra]

15. Republicans and earmarks:

Republicans Indulging in Pork Along With Power
by Nick Anderson
Published on Monday, December 8, 2003 by the Los Angeles Times
snip---
But a $328.1-billion bill that the Republican-led House expects to pass today, funding a grab bag of government agencies, takes earmarking to greater heights and uses it for what Democrats claim are new, partisan purposes.

The bill includes an eye-popping number of earmarks — around 7,000 by one estimate, at a cost of several billion dollars. Other spending bills bring the grand total for the year to more than 10,000. In that long list are items big and small, from $100,000 for street furniture and sidewalks in Laverne, Ala., to $44 million for a bridge to Treasure Island in Florida — a plum for the Tampa Bay district of House Appropriations Chairman C.W. "Bill" Young.

But more than that, to a degree unseen since their 1995 takeover, the majority Republicans are publicly flaunting their power to use pork for explicitly partisan purposes.
(more)
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1208-11.htm

Bu*h is such a lying hypocrite.

[radfringe]

16. he's never met a spending bill or a wealthy-fare taxcut/gimme

he didn't like...