Are you even listening to yourself?
Once again: What is the title of this thread?
Are you talking about something a particularly stupid idea or action said or done by a liberal today or recently? If you are confused as to how this should work, go take a looksee at the “Stupid Republican Idea Of The Day” thread, and read a few thousand of the entries. What you won’t find is anything as mindnumbingly mundane as “This Republican proposed a higher budget than that Democrat!!”
If you can’t step up to the plate, go sit on the bench.
Does it even matter what budget the president proposes? The Republicans aren’t going to read it anyway.
Most issues, such as that one, are hardly comparable to abortion. For most on both sides of the abortion issue, it is a clear-cut ethical decision with little room for compromise.
But that’s just about timing.
This is about exceptions based on the status of the fetus, i.e. how it was conceived, etc.
So does that apply in all situations, or do women have a special right to “evict” babies after viability if the fetus is a product of rape, for instance?
Since the GOP turned it down before it was even published, I don’t think you get to complain about it.
I think he’s just trying to bring the thread back to its roots. After all, if Clothy had titled it accurately from the beginning, this would be known as the “Latest Thing a Liberal/Democrat Did That I Don’t Care For” thread.
A 9% increase should be turned down before publication. It’s an insane number.
Oh, please. If the increase was for defense / homeland security, and proposed by someone from their side of the aisle, Congressional Republicans would be lining up to fellate the president before reading it.
A 9% increase in overall spending, if it was just for defense, would be a 35% increase in defense spending. That budget would never pass because enough Republicans would defect.
Last year, spending rose by 3%(Obama wanted three times that), while revenues rose by 6%, putting us on a nice path back to balance:
Obama’s budget also increases the deficit higher than it was this year. So again, a really insane budget.
Boooooring.
edited to add: What next, a report about how Obama forgot to brush his teeth after lunch?
Stupid liberal idea: irresponsible budgets are boring.
And you’re basing this assessment on comparisons to previous spending hikes, I’m sure.
And sustainability. Revenues grew by 6% last year. So a spending increase of more than 6% is irresponsible.
Would that mean a spending increase of 6% would be responsible?
It’s was also an imaginary number at the time it was turned down. The GOP didn’t reject it after hearing a precis or something. They rejected it before they knew anything about it, including the 9% figure.
Thinking that a Presidential budget proposal would ever be passed by Congress in toto, or that it’s ever anything but a starting point for negotiation, is definitely a stupid idea.
Given that between 1960 and 2008, federal government outlays increased an average of 7.5% a year, and that between 2008 and 2015 the federal outlays only increased an average of 2.6% (see table 1.1) , and are showing the signs of the extended sequestration, maybe its time to ease off a little