The largest Republican caucus in Congress has thrown its weight behind a proposal to reduce spending significantly and scrap a 2015 budget
deal.
With that move, the conservative-leaning Republican Study
Committee...
* THE FOLLOWING COMMENT MAY BE "INSIDE
BASEBALL," BUT ALLOW ME TO "PITCH" IT ANYWAY: THINK HOW A*M*A*Z*I*N*G
IT IS THAT THE REPUBLICAN STUDY COMMITTEE IS CORRECTLY IDENTIFIED AS ONLY
"CONSERVATIVE L*E*A*N*I*N*G."
...brings additional urgency to an ongoing budget battle
in Congress.
House Speaker Paul Ryan wants to keep in place spending
levels in the Bipartisan Budget Act negotiated last year between then-Speaker
John Boehner and President Obama.
* OF COURSE HE DOES! FOLKS... THE REPUBLICAN SPEAKER OF
THE HOUSE IS A RINO! HELL... HE'S NOT EVEN CONSERVATIVE L*E*A*N*I*N*G - AND
THIS FROM NONE OTHER THAN THE FRIGGIN' HERITAGE FOUNDATION!
* AGAIN... FRIGGIN' A*M*A*Z*I*N*G...!!!
But conservatives, and now the House’s Republican Study
Committee, want to renounce that agreement.
(*STANDING OVATION*)
The committee, with more than 170 Republican lawmakers as
members, is pushing to cut $30 billion from the $1.07 trillion established in
the Boehner-Obama budget deal.
* NOTICE FOLKS... THIS REPORT ISN'T PROVIDING THE BASIC
INFO YOU NEED FOR CONTEXT - NAMELY... WHAT WAS THE LAST BUDGET? WHAT WAS THE
NUMBER - HOW MANY BILLIONS OF DOLLARS - OF THIS PAST YEAR'S BUDGET? WHAT WAS
LAST YEAR'S ACTUAL SPENDING...?
* FOLKS... SOMEHOW I DOUBT THEY'RE TALKING (EITHER
HERITAGE OR THE REPUBLICAN STUDY COMMITTEE) ACTUAL "CUTS" TO LAST
YEAR'S BUDGET BASELINE.
* YEAH... IT'S A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION... BUT IT'S
ALSO MORE OF THE OL' "HOW CAN WE FOOL 'EM TODAY" RHETORIC.
Dismissing last year’s budget for adding billions to the
national debt, Chairman Bill Flores, R-Texas, said in a prepared statement:
We must make concrete spending reductions, either in
non-defense discretionary spending or through enacted mandatory savings, to
offset any spending in excess of $1.04 trillion.
* FOLKS. DO YOU WANT THE REPUBLICAN CONGRESS TO SPEND
$1.04 TRILLION DOLLARS? (AND WHAT WOULD EVEN THAT LEVEL OF SPENDING MEAN IN
TERMS OF DEFICIT SPENDING AND NEW DEBT SHOULDERING?)
Ryan, R-Wis., has indicated that reneging on the
Boehner-Obama spending agreement likely would throw the House off track and
scuttle his efforts to achieve regular order during the appropriations process.
* THROW "THE HOUSE" OFF TRACK? HOW'BOUT... THE
COUNTRY...?!?! (YOU P.O.S.!)
Flores told The Daily Signal as much in an interview last
month.
“If you want to get the appropriations bills done [one at
a time through regular order], the numbers in the October budget deal are the
ones that’ll be used,” he said.
* SO IT'S ALL BULL$HIT...
Talk of process and returning to regular order came into
vogue when Ryan succeeded Boehner as speaker in late October.
* IF "REGULAR ORDER" TRANSLATES TO
"REGULAR DEFICIT SPENDING" (WHICH IT DOES!) AND "REGULAR ADDING
ON TO THE DEBT" (WHICH IT DOES!) THEN I SUGGEST THAT RYAN'S "REGULAR
ORDER"... SUCKS!
* AGAIN... FOLKS... UNDERSTAND: PAUL RYAN IS A RINO
P.O.S. PERIOD.
Rather than funding the government through a single
“omnibus” spending package, Ryan wants Congress to pass a dozen individual
spending bills to fund specific government agencies and programs.
* FINE! BUT SPENDING SHOULD BE LIMITED TO REVENUE!
(*MASSIVE MIGRAINE HEADACHE*)
The ranks of the Republican Conference Committee swell
past 170 of the 246 Republican members of the House. Its opposition could tip
the balance of the debate.
Scrapping the Boehner-Obama spending levels could lead to
another catchall omnibus budget bill at the end of the year.
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