It doesn't sound like the Extreme Right want to cut any spending?

[titsrock]

After spending a year bellyaching everything the Dems and President Obama did, and after a campaign season high on fiery redneck populism and low on actual substance...

The Extreme Right (Rand Paul, Jimmy DeMint, Eric Cantor) did a "swing and a miss" on the ol Sunday talk circuit about specific cuts to the Gov't. Rand Paul, in fact, seems to have morphed from Loonitarian into Entrenched Good Ol' Boy Republican facepalm

WASHINGTON -- Signaling how difficult it will be for the Republican Party to live up to its campaign promises of cutting spending while preserving the Bush tax cuts and not cutting benefits for seniors, Tea Party favorites Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and Sen.-elect Rand Paul (R-Ky.) struggled on Sunday to actually name any specific cuts they plan on making.

On ABC's "This Week," Christiane Amanpour repeatedly pressed Paul to move beyond "slogans and platitudes" to "direct information" on how the Republican Party will balance the budget and cut the deficit.

Paul immediately reiterated that he was going to push for a balanced budget amendment and said that cuts needed to come from across the board -- including defense spending. Whenever Amanpour asked whether a specific program -- such as Medicare, Social Security and health care -- would be cut, Paul simply kept reiterating that he was going to be looking "across the board." He was unable, however, to actually name anything significant that would be on the chopping block:

DeMint had a similar experience on NBC's "Meet the Press." When asked by host David Gregory where the American people should be prepared to sacrifice in order to cut the deficit, DeMint said, "I don't think the American people are going to have to sacrifice as much as the government bureaucrats who get paid about twice what the American worker does. First of all, we just need to return to pre-Obama levels of spending in 2008. We need to cut earmarks so people can stop taking home the bacon, we need to defund Obamacare and then we need to look at the entitlement programs, such as the way Paul Ryan has done in the House with his Road to America's Future."

When Gregory pointed out that going back to 2008 spending levels won't get anywhere close to balancing the budget, he asked whether everything would be on the table. DeMint said he opposed cutting Social Security. "If we can just cut the administrative waste, we can cut hundreds of billions of dollars a year at the federal level. We need to keep our promises to seniors, David, and cutting benefits to seniors is not on the table." DeMint also said that cutting benefits for veterans is out.

Republicans -- including Sen. John Cornyn (Tex.) and Rep. Pete Sessions (Tex.) -- have consistently been unable to name specific cuts they will make to the budget in order to offset an extension of the Bush tax cuts. On Oct. 3, Paul also said that he didn't see extending the Bush tax cuts as "a cost to government." [ Oh, geez]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/...aul-jim-demint-budget-specifics_n_780043.html


I guess the Extreme Right will be making it up as they go along for the next two years. We will here this new catch phrase -- "We can fund this through tax cuts..."

If the Extreme Right really don't have a plan for anything, then I guess the Dems will be winning back those 60 seats in 2012 along with Obama easily winning re-election. :dunno:

 

[kingoftherodeo]

You should start talking once you realize that both parties are the same thing. Left vs Right is a distraction. It doesn't exist. They are both retarded, corrupt, and controlled by the same factors. In the end, it doesn't matter who is in charge....the people take it up the ass. The entire system is diseased. Figure that out and we can begin to have a real conversation.

 

[StanScratch]

Of course they didn't have an actual plan to this. Those who actually listened to their speeches and interviews during the election process should have already realized this before entering the booths.

 

[HELLRAISER]

You should start talking once you realize that both parties are the same thing. Left vs Right is a distraction. It doesn't exist. They are both retarded, corrupt, and controlled by the same factors. In the end, it doesn't matter who is in charge....the people take it up the ass. The entire system is diseased. Figure that out and we can begin to have a real conversation.

Although both of the leading political parties in the U.S. are flawed, equating both of them is intellectually dishonest.

 

[anomaly]

No they don't. They just want another George W bush in office so that can continue to rape the middle class.......but trick most of these idiots into being happy with it because it's familiar to them.

 

[Supafly]

Well, as Conservatives are all about increasing the war on Afghanistan, Terror in Genral, wherever they feel like it may be, Iran (Soon to come), immigrants, Marijuana, etc pp.

How do they want to save ANY money?

As for sure they will NEVER go to where the money is, the top 5% of filthy rich.

 

[vodkazvictim]

Well, as Conservatives are all about increasing the war on Afghanistan, Terror in Genral, wherever they feel like it may be, Iran (Soon to come), immigrants, Marijuana, etc pp.

How do they want to save ANY money?

As for sure they will NEVER go to where the money is, the top 5% of filthy rich.

Hush, you risk alarming the plebes!