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My immediate reaction to this was, "now, it’s time for DeLay to step down from a leadership role." He’s gone native. |
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Crank
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I see a bright future in stand up comedy for Mr. DeLay. |
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Lance Jonn Romanoff
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Oh, and Flake for Pres. 2008. Or 2012, at least. |
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Lance Jonn Romanoff
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I think he’s being sarcastic, actually, but nobody is picking up on that. If you notice, he notes that he’s willing to cut more, but nobody is bringing him anything. He’s fed up with nobody wanting to give up their pet projects, and just rips into them. |
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Patriot Xeno
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The machine may not be well-oiled but it’s certainly well-greased. |
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"My answer to those that want to offset the spending is sure, bring me the offsets, I’ll be glad to do it. But nobody has been able to come up with any yet," the Texas Republican told reporters at his weekly briefing
I agree, I think it IS sarcasm. And there is a point here- not a one of these senators who passed the pork-barrel energy bill or the pork-barrel highway bill wants is offering to give up anything to pay for Katrina funding.
DeLay is a sharp guy, it’s too out of character for him to say something this laughable on the face of it.
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"You’ve got to be kidding me."
Oh he’s seriously trying to sell that, he’s just not to be taken seriously.
Yours, TDP, ml, msl, & pfpp
PS Sorry, commented on wrong thread at first. |
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Tom Perkins
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If he’s being sarcastic, he’s even dumber than I thought. Politically, the last thing you ever want to use to convey a message is sarcasm. It gives way too much ammo to an opponent to use without context in campaign ads during the next election cycle. |
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I think he’s being sarcastic, actually, but nobody is picking up on that.
Well he sure fooled Flake, didn’t he? |
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McQ
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Sounds like it was blown out of proportion. Here is what DeLay really said:
Mr. DeLay: Yes. After 11 years of Republican majority we pared it down pretty good. I mean, in our own—this year, our own budget, and our—you know, we passed all
of our appropriations bill. If you will look at the combined effect of those appropriations bills, we eliminated over 100 offices and more programs. We have been doing that for
11 years.
Q So are you ready to claim victory in that? Are you guys there?
Mr. DeLay: I am ready to declare ongoing victory. It is still a process. After this reconciliation process, when we reform all the entitlement programs, that is another victory or a small battle. And the effort that we have been going for the last 11 years.
Yes.
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Ginny, even in that form it’s still utterly ridiculous on its face. After 11 bloody years, this is the best they can do? This is "paring it down pretty good"?
"Gee, who are you gonna believe, me or your lyin’ eyes?" What a goddamn joke. |
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Matt McIntosh
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...And just how much larger is the gov’t now, as compared to eleven years ago?
This is like Charlie Brown beaming over how far he kicked that football...
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As far as I know, the Highway bill was almost all authorizations, rather than appropriations.
Only the latter are actually spending.
It’s important to keep this in mind, if we’re going to talk about it. Authorizing a zillion dollars in spending makes for good PR for the Congressmen involved, but it doesn’t spend a cent until an appropriations bill forks it over. (I expect this is one reason there’s so much pork-authorization; it’s effective for its purpose of making Congressmen look effective, and at the same time it doesn’t really spend anything, so it’s defensible in the other direction if needed.) |
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The thing is, I’d even be willing to put up with all the pork and massive deficit spending if only they would make up for it by deregulating everything they can get their hands on. This would at least free up the private sector to increase productivity (and would probably result in more tax revenue). But they haven’t even done a very good job of that. Boooooourns, hiss. |
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Matt McIntosh
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sounds like he’s laying the ground work to distance himself from the Right-wingers (if that’s possible) who wanted to cut the Army Corps of Engineers budget, in light of the busted levees in New Orleans that will not cost over $100 billion to clean up, as opposed to the $100 million to have fixed them beforehand. |
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dude
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Dude,
Where did you ever get the idea that the levees could be fixed ahead of time for 100 million? multiply that by 140 and we are getting close. |
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Lance
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Matt McIntosh:
"I was saying Boo-urns!"
=darwin |
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Darwin
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Sigivald As far as I know, the Highway bill was almost all authorizations, rather than appropriations.
1/ Does that somehow make it NOT part of the problem?
2/ Do you seriously expect them to NOT appropriate every penny of that pork-o-rama highway bill? |
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Stoop Davy Dave
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I read this the first day it was posted, and as I reread it I am still amazed. I thought I was too cynical to be surprised or disappointed by the sheer stupidity or chutzpah of a politician. I was wrong. I guess that is a good thing. |
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