Republicans want to cut taxes for the richest people in the country, but don’t want to increase the deficit. However, cutting taxes for the rich would increase the already obscene deficit to $700 billion. Why are Republicans being so hypocritical? Is it because they have no realistic plans to decrease the deficit? This doesn’t seem like the solution, does it?
Why do they talk of newt running for president in 2012?
Reuters – Republican lawmakers privately discussed ways Tuesday to better explain a proposed overhaul of a popular healthcare program for the elderly after a number of testy exchanges with constituents.
ContributorNetwork – COMMENTARY | Despite eventually reaching a budget agreement to avoid a government shutdown, the recent back and forth battles between Democrats and Republicans have just highlighted the fact that neither side is really willing to handle the issue of fiscal responsibility fairly and productively.
AP – Congressional Republicans are getting mixed reviews as they pitch their budget plan to constituents back home.
I’m taking a class, and I’m supposed to look up how many democrats and republicans are in the house of representatives and in the senate, but I’m having trouble finding that info. Anyone know?
I need to know how many democrats and republicans there are, the overall amount isn’t that important.
You know, like the Democrats are going after Palin. I think they could dig up a lot more dirt on Biden, than what the Democrats have come up with on Palin. I mean, he is pretty much a confirmed, blabbering drunk.
For those of you who missed the few minutes before Governor Jindal started speaking, the first thing you saw was this weirdly lit building. It looked more like Halloween than Mardi Gras. I later discovered it must have been the Louisiana state capitol in Baton Rouge. I thought I was looking at a new episode of my newest guilty pleasure, “Lost Tapes”.
That scene was almost as scary as that amateurish mishmash he called a response speech. Why would they make their rising star look like such a doofus?
No matter what the national GOP planners say?