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Finally it seems that the GOP may begin finding a voice of opposition against President Obama’s socialist agenda and that voice might be House Minority Whip Eric Cantor of Virginia. It’s been a couple months since strong, steadfast Republican opposition has existed in congress, mainly because too many House GOP members were caught up in HOPE AND CHANGE propaganda.
Politico reports on the GOP’s budget brawl:
House Republicans have begun unveiling detailed alternatives to President Barack Obama’s policies — a concerted effort to push back against Democratic efforts to label them “the Party of No.”
On Wednesday, it was a housing plan. Thursday, it will be a big, TV-friendly stack of budget blueprints, “The Republican Road to Recovery.” That’s to match the president’s own platitudinous budget title, “A New Era of Responsibility.”
The House Republicans’ budget document, provided to POLITICO ahead of its release, makes sure no one can miss the point: Each chapter begins “The Republican Plan,” and each section is divided into “The President’s Budget” and “Republicans’ Solution.”
House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said the housing proposal that he rolled out with eight other House Republicans on Tuesday was “in response to the administration — and the president himself, who continues to say that Republicans don’t have any ideas.”
“We’re here today to say yes we do,” Cantor said. “This is one in a series. It will not be the last. We are committed to trying to pull the agenda back to the mainstream and to respond to the problems facing America’s families today.”
The documents — and the showmanship in releasing them — are the result of frustration by GOP leaders who repeatedly hear on TV that they have no alternatives.
In fact, they had their own plans. They just didn’t get much attention, partly because Republicans sometimes disagreed about them among themselves.
So the entire House GOP elected leadership will join Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), the ranking member of the Budget Committee, for Thursday’s event. “It’s the old ‘I want to see it in writing,’” said a top House Republican official. “They’re going to see it in writing.”
Another official said: “We need to hold something up and say, ‘Here are our charts. Here are our graphs. It’s real.’”
The principles in the Republican budget will sound familiar: “limits the federal budget from growing faster than the family budget, … provides universal access to health care and secures entitlements, … lowers taxes, … keeps energy and fuel costs low, … ends the bailouts and reforms the financial system, … keep the cost of living low.”
Sounds ambitious, but it’s a lot easier to do when all you have to do is talk about it, not pass the legislation.
GOP leaders see these Obama alternatives as the starting point for a consistent party message going into next year’s midterms, where history suggests Republicans could have opportunities if the economy is still struggling.
I’ll remain cautiously optimistic and hopeful that a unified voice can be constructed against Obama’s disastrous plans.
Here’s Cantor drawing the line in the sand:
Any alternative which isn’t an assault on personal liberty and capitalism is a better solution than what Obama has presented and attempted to pass under the radar in some cases.
Hopefully the American people will realize the difference between government control and individual liberty when it comes to choosing which direction to head in 2010 with congressional elections.
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Kudos to the Republicans! I’m SO tired of hearing that Republicans have “become the party of no”! I LOVE the mantra “Yes, we do!”
Kudos to Cantor for having the “audacity” to bring up the moveon.org attacks on targeted democrats!!
I can’t wait to hear what his plan is Next Wednesday when they present it on the floor in the house. I’ll be tuning in for sure.
I have a feeling they are going to take the budget to the far right. Which is good. I think it could lead to a compromise. Good to see the Republicans can finally come up with some of their own ideas instead of crying about everything.
Republicans have had good ideas to begin with, JD. I’ve watched on the House and Senate floor as amendment after amendment has been shot down by leftwing dems who won’t even listen. Then they and obama say republicans aren’t offering anything. I think the only way to make their voices heard is through showmanship and the media – just like obama. And I’m glad they’re doing it.
However, you don’t have to wait until next Wednesday. Here’s the plan:
http://republicanwhip.house.gov/Jobs/
Oops, that’s the recovery plan from Jan. – you know, the one they didn’t have and sat around crying about everything? *LOL*
Hey Babs, Can you point me to where they have a plan on what to do for energy and Health Care reform?
Because not doing anything isn’t an option in my book. I read their budget and it didn’t say anything on what they plan on doing for those issues. So i am assuming they are overlooking them or ignoring.
“Obama admin to put gas and oil drilling on ice … for now”
“Before the administration makes a decision on whether and where to drill, Ken Salazar said, the agency will conduct studies, hold four regional conferences and let the public have its say”.
“To establish an orderly process that allows us to make wise decisions based on sound information, we need to set aside the Bush Administration’s midnight timetable for its OCS drilling plan and create our own timeline,” he said.
I wonder if such great thought for wind and other alternative energy will receive such treatment. As well as health reform ? Somehow, I doubt it
http://miamiherald.typepa.....-now-.html
Sure, JD. Go to http://www.gop.com/2008Platform/ to see the Republican platform about any issue you want.
“Nuclear energy is the most reliable zero-carbon-emissions source of energy that we have. Unwarranted fear mongering with no relationship to current technologies and safeguards has prevented us from starting construction of a single nuclear power plant in 31 years.”
I don’t see this in their budget? Are they looking to tackle Nuclear energy at a later time? Last Time I checked Nuclear plants cost money to build.
“We support coal-to-liquid and gasification initiatives, just as we support investment in the development and deployment of carbon capture and storage technologies, which can reduce emissions.”
What about the cost of Coal Plants. I don’t see that covered in the budget? Where is the money for clean coal initiatives coming from?
The health-care section is a joke. It was mostly a description of what is wrong and a wish list of things they wish would change. The only good point was opening up competition out of state.
So, i can see why it isn’t in the budget… they don’t plan on addressing it. They will “encourage” change. I can tell you how that has worked over the past 3 decades. lol.
Also, here are some details of the GOP’s alternative recovery plans:
Economy and jobs
http://republicanleader.h.....tID=109659
Healthcare
http://republicanleader.h.....tID=108580
And here’s you one on savings and retirement. Please sign the petition while you’re there – just to see if you can.
http://gopleader.gov/savings/
JD, don’t act like a jerk. The URL I gave you was to the republican stance on the issues. If you want to compare apples to apples, here’s obama’s energy page and stance on the issues on the white house site. Where does HE address any of your questions?
http://www.whitehouse.gov.....vironment/
He doesn’t. Must not be in the budget. Must not have an answer. It’s a joke.
See how stupid your comment sounds?
Hey, you want to hear a real joke? From whitehouse.gov:
“Improve Our Immigration System: Fix the dysfunctional immigration bureaucracy and increase the number of legal immigrants to keep families together and meet the demand for jobs that employers cannot fill.
Remove Incentives to Enter Illegally: Remove incentives to enter the country illegally by cracking down on employers who hire undocumented immigrants.
Bring People Out of the Shadows: Support a system that allows undocumented immigrants who are in good standing to pay a fine, learn English, and go to the back of the line for the opportunity to become citizens.”
Is it a joke, or a lie, or both? None of this is being done.
Babs, don’t be Naive. The conversation was about the Budget and the last time I checked the reason why Obama is getting such heat about his budget is because he is including the costs for his healthcare reform, education reform, and energy reform. And republican’s disagree with the cost he is looking for. So, YES, Obama is including his reforms in the budget.
All I am saying is that if the Republicans are coming out with their plan, which I don’t see it mention on the first link you provided, they should include the cost of their incentives, nuclear power plants, and other such reforms they are looking to do.
Leaving it off the budget is what got us in this situation to begin with. We had a president that left a lot off of his budget coupled with a congress who let him and next thing we know we are all surprised with the grand total for his escapades.
The top three issues I had for this election were Energy reform, Healthcare reform, and immigration reform. It is not an option for me to not tackle these problems. I would like to see the republican budget reflects this.
Who knows, they may have, and are waiting to lay it all out on Wednesday when they address the houses. We will see.
JD, I don’t where you’re getting your Wednesday date, they are unveiling the plan today.
The second set of links I gave you are links directly related to the recovery plan being presented on the floor TODAY. It’s THE plan.
I’m not naive. If you can’t look at a link and see it’s not a budget, it’s an issues statement, then you need help with your reading skills.
I don’t have the link anymore but I was reading that next wednesday they are going to release the indepth detials… Numbers, figures, graphs, and all the goodies.
Right now they are just laying out generalities. Which is fine. I am just looking forward to see what all the details are going to be.
Also, Wall Street continues its winning streak Thursday, with the Dow jumping about 175 points.
Stocks are seeing their biggest monthly gain since 1987.
GM, Best Buy, ConAgra all surge.
jd
Great to see Bush stimulas money is working. Hope o doen’t mess it up
Yeah, the stock market is really impressive (not). Check out this headline:
“Yesterday’s stock market established another record, both in volume of business transacted and in number of issues dealt in. Total sales for the day were 1,593,930 shares, the largest of any day since April 20, 1920, when the amount was 1,882,473.”
It’s from the New York Times, dated April 7, 1922. Sounded real hopeful then, too.
And this report, more recent:
Yep, this one’s from Nov. 29, 2008. Guess what happened after that.
lol. A month ago you were singing doom and gloom, the stocks go back up and you say it is the quiet before the storm. Gotta love your point of view.
Wrong again. Just pointing out that the rise in the stock market is as fickle as the drop. When it’s dropped over 4000 points just recently, 1000 point hike isn’t anything to write home about. It has to be sustainable, and we don’t have evidence of that yet.
“It has to be sustainable, and we don’t have evidence of that yet.”
No evidence because we still have Turbotax Geithner shooting his mouth off about being open to a global currency.
Everyone can see they have no clue how to handle these financial issues though they claim they do. Evidence exists to the contrary that they’re just reacting and lurching with no set principles, only the news of the day. Obama promised to raise taxes and I saw new polling indicating that 66% believe the middle class will see tax hikes as well which means no one is confident in what’s going on in Washington.
Hopefully the GOP can become a voice for those of us who aren’t kosher with selling our sovereignty and raising our taxes during a recession.
i think we are seeing signs that is it sustainable. Citi-group is posting profits, housing market is reporting gains, and retail sales is up again according to the new results posted today. (2 months in a row).
I wouldn’t be surprised if we are back 3000 points in 6 months.
There is no doubt that the GOP is looking for a voice… but I wonder if the GOP is only 45% of the nation. Could make it hard for the GOP to win the presidents office. We’ll see. It hasn’t even been 100 days. lol. Alot can change.
Jd, I would recommend you read an article over on Smart Money called “A Rally Without a Reason is Just Market Noise”. It’s a good article, and makes use of good facts.
http://www.smartmoney.com...../?cid=1034
Babs, I am not saying the market is not going to have it’s dips after this but I want it on the record as saying that I think we are at the bottom and beginning the bounce back.
I predict we will be back up 3000 points by October of this year. Just put it on your calendar and we’ll see if I was right.
You know how much I like being right