This should be good.  I read yesterday on ThinkProgress.org (go ahead and ridicule me, I don't really care) that the preliminary estimates put the Republican alternative at roughly $300B more than President Obama's budget.  The important things to look for are: what do they budget for health care, what do they budget for natural disasters, and do they actually put the cost of war in the budget.

My guess is that none of these things will be in the budget, but they can't be that dumb.  To not honestly account for these costs will open them up to a media and PR storm like nothing we've seen before.

Patience people. MSierra SF is busy on another James Clavelle sized novel of cut and pasted plagerized factioids and out of context quotes to rip on Bush and venerate Obama.

Will the Republican budget have numbers in it this time?

Too little, too late.

Sounds like a great photo op.  Thank you for encouraging this type of ridiculousness (and no, the Democrats are not innocent of this behavior).

where we, your humble narrators,then chronicle the moment as they march en masse past those same cameras and into the House chamber.
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But, they (Republican Party of NO) only will be repeating or should I say maintaining the status quo. So really there's not much, we you loyal audience, will be missing.

But, it will be shocking; as well as interesting to hear them have a plan that is new and different.

Time to see if the vaunted GOP alternative has numbers that stand up to scrutiny. No more 'blueprint' mirages.


http://www.political-buzz.com

And you'll report on it, right, Mike?  The whole thing?  

Like you reported on Obama's PHYSICALLY intimidating a Politico reporter on March 3, 2009, in the White House Press room.  You remember, the guy who dared to ask a question about the defense lobbyist named to Obama's cabinet. Chuck Todd must have been there-it's on the realpolitics site-and i can imagine that the story would have led the evening news and been all over the front pages if it had happened with, oh, say, George Bush as president.  Since obama is a democrat, it disappears into the same vacuum as the story about the letter he sent to Chirac, who is not the president of France.

I can't tell if the bias is due to shared liberal idiocy, or if you truly are just afraid.

Either way, the job of the 'Fourth Estate' isn't getting done.

At 8:45 they will all have a one word spelling test!
The word they will be required to spell is "no". Then they will have a group chant, repeating "no,no,no..." until they get it down without que cards. At l0:30 they will gather and hold up their coloring books in which they have written five words..."Tax cuts for the rich!"

I you, the humble narrators, run into any of those House or Senate Republicans, will you be passing out new ideas?  I hear the GOP has run out of them.

Will the teleprompter be spying on the GOP in the chamber for Obama????

eagle1776 (Sent Tuesday, March 31, 2009 1:34 PM)
everything from you post on the Kennedy article is so spot on!

We all know someone who has 'experienced' first hand what healthcare in this country has become.  It isn't pretty and those who continue to carry the water for Rush/RNC/Bush et al - are flipping CRAZY when they deny this.  Based on a 'law of averages' only three 100 different posters on this site are even part of the WEALTHY class.  That means 97 of the others are middle or lower class.  How are you HONESTLY managing your premiums, deductibles and COBRA if you've had the misfortune of losing your job?  Serious discussion.  I am not trying to bait anyone; but this one, single issue affects EVERY American.  It is tangible and we should all be able to discuss it with honesty and frankness.  Are you insured?  How much are your premiums?  Who do you cover?  Why is insurance tied to employment?  What are some alternatives?

I am insured.  I have family coverage for four people.  I have medical ($465.74/month), dental ($35.70/month) and vision ($7.15/month).  I have never understood why insurance is employer based.  In a true 'free market' we would be able to 'group' ourselves together and shop for the best rate.  The only real reason is that employers determined that offering competitive benefits helped obtain and retain the best and brightest employees (see AIG for how that pans out in reality).

So typical of the republicans, do it while nobody is around. In the dark that way nobody knows. Bunch of morons.

The Three Stooges of the Apocalyspe: Reagan, Bush & Bush


From Salon.com:

‘.... Of the roughly $11 trillion in federal debt accumulated to date, more than 90 percent can be attributed to the tenure of three presidents: Ronald Reagan, who used to complain constantly about runaway spending; George Herbert Walker Bush, reputed to be one of those old-fashioned green-eyeshade Republicans; and his spendthrift son George "Dubya" Bush, whose trillion-dollar war and irresponsible tax cuts accounted for nearly half the entire burden....’


MORE than 90% of our NATIONAL DEBT was accumulated by the Three Stooges !!

Supply Side Economics, anyone ?

The Republicans have such a DYNAMITE RECORD on budgets, Don't they ??

Mitch McConnell will save us !!

Eric Cantor, can you get Brittney Spears to ENDORSE the Republican Budget ???

The repukes will meet to "...talk about...what Republicans in the Senate have in mind in terms of a strategy to fight back against the Obama adminstration/Democratic plan."  

Who views the making of a budget a fight?  Is it the MSM or the Republican, Paul Ryan?  This is so typical of what we are getting from the Republicans these days! They prefer to fight, than to contribute.  I cannot believe anyone could justify their actions.  They should be contributing to their country's budget proposals with thoughtful ideas.  Instead they view their roles as fighters, not contructors.   What a disgrace!  

NO numbers. . .. they'll just change the pretty cover!

. . .the GOP with a budget. . what a JOKE !!!!

Well, considering the Republican Senate doesn't want anything to do with an alternative budget, this has the makings of a very ugly fight.  Why, you ask?  Because Republican Senators realize that if they put forth a budget, they'll have to explain what they want to do with health care and education, not to mention the environment, and these are 3 areas they've avoided for the last 30 years.  Not only will they need to come up with ideas, they'll also need to pay for those ideas, spend less than President Obama, and then spend days or weeks explaining why their ideas are more effective.  This will get U-G-L-Y.

Lets all say it together to save time.

Obama is great...
Obama is the best...
We love Obama...
God save the Obama...
All Hail King Obama...
Obama saved the Banks...
Obama saved 3 trillion jobs...
Obama saved all the car companies...
Obama loves me this I know...
For Obama tells me so...

Now for the second verse...

Bush is Bad
Bush is a war criminal
Bush is just a small tree...
Bush killed kids...
Bush killed me...
Bush is the Devil...\

There that should save almost everyone that blogs here some time.

PS. Obama I love you - please dont fire me.

Will Boehner be passing out checks? Is that the new budget?
I will be curious to see how much of their budget will be substantive and not insulting to Obama. It's as if they cannot discuss his brief tenure without acting as non professional as possible.
The rudeness and assinine behavior would never fly in the military....but then again, I guess Boehner, as much as he cries for the people in the service, didn't serve and obviously lacks the social grace he should have learned in that steeped in values homelife he always describes.

>>>Meanwhile, the formal public unveiling of the House GOP budget likely happens at 10:30 am ET in the House studio, with Ryan presiding as the ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee.
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Where they'll then say to all the press corps, "APRIL FOOL.  We don't really have an alternative.  We were just kidding around with you guys.  Don't you know that we're the party of 'NO!'?  What did you expect?"

http://jawillie.blog.com

Will this one have numbers?  The coloring book version they released last week was laughable.  Tax cuts to the rich just won't cut it this time.  And will they be honest about the amount they'll be adding to the deficit?  And will their budget be able to build and lead us to a stronger economy?  Time will tell.  To be honest, they had their one shot, now it's just theater.

On April Fool's day, no less.

Fascinating...

Will this big roll out be like the photo op from the Repukes back in the mid-nineties and that bogus "Contract With America"? Much to do about nothing, and will do nothing!

Poor Repukes!!!!

Can somebody please tell me WHY, after 8 years of bad management at best, we are STILL making SO much room for Republicans.  When, in the last 8 years, did they ever consider the Democratic offerings we have FINALLY shown we citizens of the USA WANT!  Leave them alone to go pout and create flip charts with or without numbers to their little hearts' content!

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