Bush urged to curb overspending (by Capital Hill Republicans)

[TexasLawyer]

Source: WASHINGTON TIMES

Bush urged to curb overspending

By Sean Lengell
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
June 14, 2007

Capitol Hill Republicans and conservative activists say President Bush must follow through on veto threats to keep spending of the Democrat-controlled Congress in check and re-establish Republicans as the voice of fiscal responsibility heading into the next election.

"Republicans need for the president to pick a fight with Democrats over spending so they can begin the process of rebuilding the brand that they have squandered -- that they're the party of smart spending and small government," said Pat Toomey, president of the tax-cutting Club for Growth.

House Republicans started that fight this week, using the House version of a filibuster to stall a vote on the $36 billion Homeland Security Department appropriations bill, which is about $2 billion more than the president's budget request, by offering dozens of amendments to reduce spending. The legislation is the first of the 12 annual appropriations bills that make up the federal budget.

The Republican Study Committee sent a letter to Mr. Bush last month urging him to veto any spending bill that exceeds the president's budget request. The fiscally conservative House caucus also has circulated a petition among the chamber's Republicans to vote against Democratic spending increases. "Conservatives are united in our effort to protect American taxpayers," said caucus Chairman Rep. Jeb Hensarling, Texas Republican. "We will continue to use every opportunity to remind hardworking Americans of the Democrats' hollow promises of fiscal responsibility."

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[rusty charly]

1. And we will continue to use every opportunity

to remind hardworking Americans of the Republics' hollow promises of fiscal responsibility. The evidence is just EVERYWHERE.

[Nickster]

2. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA! OMFG, the guts these guys have. Fiscal F-ing responsibility?

Sorry boys, that ship has sailed.

[Art_from_Ark]

16. The USS Fiscal Responsibility struck an iceberg on 1/20/01

and has been floundering ever since

[MadMaddie]

3. Guess the repugs should have thought about that 12 years ago...

just sayin..

[AX10]

4. What about the tax cuts and spending increases that you supported...

Mr. Toomey? Conservatives are full of shit!

[driver8]

10. But, but, but...the tax cuts put money in everybody's pockets!!

By putting money in the pockets of 'Merkans, they helped the economy!

[Old and In the Way]

5. It's truly amazing that they can issue these comments with a straight face.

You have to be brain-dead to vote Republican.

[whistle]

6. The republicans with leader * in six years doubled the national debt

....blowing federal surpluses which would have paid off that original debt in the same six years. So in reality they overspent like drunken sailors!

[driver8]

8. Hey -- I used to be a drunken sailor!!

We pissed away a lot of money, but nothing like this!!

[whistle]

11. I'll bet you didn't go AWOL either

[driver8]

7. Just a little late with this, aren't we?? Must be election time!!

These people absolutely disgust me. They give little lord pissypants carte blanche for 6 and a half years and finally decide that maybe they should reel the boy king in a little bit.

How stupid do they think we are??

[Doctor_J]

9. Translation: Cut medicare, medicaid, VA, and the last few shreds of HHS

money. For God sakes, don't cut the pentagon's bloated annual.

[TomClash]

12. Pot meet Kettle nt

[Rydz777]

13. For six and a half years, Bush has been spending like

(1) a drunken sailor, (2) money grows on trees, (3) like it was going out of style, (4) all of the foregoing. He has maxed out the national credit card and the dollar is sinking. Much of this has been "off budget" to push money down the sink hole of his misbegotten war. To urge him to bring "fiscal responsibility" into his regime is beyond hilarious.

[wordpix]

14. too late for you, friggin' borrow & spend repukes! No one believes your lies

anymore. :grr:

[swag]

15. Fiscal incontinence: the Republican Ideal!

The Model Fiscally Incontinent Republican

[appleannie1]

17. Republican pork for the last 6 years

can be found here. http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=reports_pigbook2001 About 110 billion dollars from 2001 to the present.

[radfringe]

18. what's the breakdown between

republic pork and democratic pork?

perhaps the republics should set a 'good example' by stripping their pork out? wonder if they even thought about that?

[tanyev]

19. "the Democrats' hollow promises of fiscal responsibility"

http://web.whittier.edu/jmiller/United%20States%20National%20Debt.htm

[Theduckno2]

20. The Republicans make an excellent minority party.

They always know the right thing to do when they aren't the ones in charge! :rofl:

I would be remiss if I didn't give an inkling of where I thought where some of fiscal responsibility needed to take place. (hint: a five-sided building)


http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174793/robert_dreyfuss_the_pentagon_s_blank_check

By the way the current article heading the Tomdispatch homepage has to do with the fuel that the Pentagon consumes.