WASHINGTON (CNN) - House Republican leaders rolled out their alternative budget on Thursday to respond to President Obama's charge they were slamming his proposal without offering one of their own.
At a Capitol Hill news conference, House GOP Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, held up an 18 page document entitled, "The Republican Road to Recovery" and said, "well, it's just not true, because here it is Mr. President."
Watch GOP leaders unveil their budget blueprint
But, when pressed for the details on how the GOP plan differed from the President's, Boehner acknowledged he didn’t have many. “This is a blueprint for where we’re going," Bohener said.
The blueprint includes familiar Republican proposals to limit wasteful government spending, cut the size of government, and provide incentives to private entities to expand access to healthcare. It also includes a major overhaul of the tax code, proposing a marginal tax rate of 10 percent for income up to $100,000 and 25 percent for any income above that level.
Pressed for specific budget numbers, Boehner said Rep. Paul Ryan, the top Republican on the budget committee, wouldn’t be releasing that information until next week. Ryan announced at the press conference that Republicans would show a "leaner budget, a budget with lower taxes, lower spending, and lower borrowing." But he left before reporters could ask him how his plan would meet those goals.
Boehner was left to field questions. He said Republicans would do a better job than the President cutting the deficit. When asked what the goal was, he answered curtly, “to do better.” Pressed again on how, Boehner said "you'll see next week." The reporter tried again, asking how the GOP plan would do better than President Obama's goal of cutting the deficit in half, and Boehner repeated, "Oh, it'll be better."
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs joked with reporters about the Republican proposal, saying "it took me several minutes to read it."
"It's interesting to have a budget that doesn't contain any numbers. I think the party of no has become the party of no new ideas, " Gibbs said.
The press conference to push back against the “party of no” appeared to expose a rift inside the GOP leadership.
One Republican aide tells CNN that Boehner and House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence insisted on coming out on Thursday to counter President Obama's criticism, even though the Republican budget committee staffers were still finalizing the numbers for the alternative budget proposal.
But a Boehner spokesman flatly denied that, and said leadership staff decided last week to unveil the outline of their plan, even before the final details were ready for the floor debate next week. And Rep. Pence’s spokesman argued that the blueprint offered plenty of details on the “significant policy differences” between House Republicans and the President, and said they hoped to have specific numbers soon on their proposal.
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is this the best they can do.....tax cut for the rich tax cut for the rich......the gop=goof on parade.........and man do they own that title
hmmmm let me guess....tax cuts for the rich
The title of this article is quite misleading. A 19 page blueprint does not equal a budget alternative.
I think I would have been more receptive if this blue print had more depth to the ideas they are proclaiming instead of a majority of it being this is the Obama budget is bad. To me it's just a glorified NO document. Hopefully next week we can see some real ideas. I really hope so because as Obama said good ideas are good ideas. So far this document release was not a good idea.
For starters, numbers lie, O.K? I don't care if you're gonna make a better cake...just as long it tastes good!!
Where the hell you guys get these numbers?? And even the White House or the Congressional one??? For starters, that's one problem...
John Boehner face turn red … OR it might have but since we can't tell because of that DEEP tan stray …
Eric Can't do said ' Oops we did it again ' ..
GOPs …. are sooooooooooooo funny
Don´t advertise a new and better budget until you have one... You Republicans are a joke from the word go. Boehner, is the King of Comedy, all bronzed up, slicked down, and trying to hit the big time.
These Guy's are a joke,they could come out and say they have a map to where Bin-laden is hiding and the map say's somewhere inPakistain!
It is time for the American people to wake up smell the coffiee'
Vote these Republican "Bum's" out of office.
What a joke...and these people had the gall to criticize Sec. Geitner's broad overview (which he has carefully enacted and rolled out since then) when he had only been in office for three weeks! Like the president they should think a few days and get all the pieces in place vbefore they roll out a nonexistant budget! There only policy is more tax breaks for corporations and the rich.
I will take the endorsements of Warren Buffet and Bill Gates for the work the president and his team is doing vbefore any of these fools!
And just WHY should we give credence to any of their ideas, when these are the guys who helped create the mess we are in, and they haven't had a fresh idea since the 1980s (at least!). Puhhhleeese!
Wow, where have they been the past 8 years, stopping Bush's expanshion of medicare, more government spending the Clinton, and now the GOP wants to continue the polices that got the U.S. into the mess into the first place.
They sound like an addict with a bottle in their hands saying that they will never drink again.
The current GOP is no longer stands for anything like the original conservative ideals, and until they get away from the Extreme Right, they will remain irrelevant.
Let me guess... pg. 1. Tax cuts...
pg.2 tax cuts... pg. 3 tax cuts... etc.
Nothing like keeping a nation down by starving its growth.
Haven't these clowns done enough damage? Retreating to the familiar they pull out, guess what, "tax cuts". And not just little ones, HUGE ones. You like those, boys and girls, don't you? Now just climb into the car and we'll drive you home. What are they planning to cut? Haven't we hollowed out the insides of this great nation and siphoned it off to the wealthy long enough? Nothing but treachery.
I can't wait to see the details of a Republican budget that's funded by a 10% flat tax. If they can't propose enough cuts to balance the budget now, what cuts are they going to need to support that? And how will they avoid revealing them?
IS THIS THE BEST THE REPUBLCAN PARTY OF NO CAN DO? THE REPUBLICAN BUDGET WAS 19 PAGES LONG AND CONTAINED NO NUMBERS. GIVE ME A BREAK!
I continue to be amazed at the GOP and their attempts to hide the debacle of the last eight years.
It was their boy in the White House who left this country such a wreck that these drastic measures are required. I'm amazed Obama didn't just turn around and walk away once he had a chance to really see what Bushism did to this country. But I am certain that if Obama can't pull off this rescue, the republicans will do everything they can to lay the failure at his feet.
Already they are lining up to publicly declare their wish that Obama fails. Don't they realize that failure at this point means depression, possible loss of society, possible power struggles, and possible overthrow of the government? It isn't impossible and actually happens all over the world all the time. Yet republicans publicly hope for failure.
It's that wisdom that brought us here.
Do these Republican idoiots, who have no credibility with anyone in the nation by the way, actually think that their alternative budget proposal wil fly? What in the world are they smoking?
The republicans and some democratics have placed our nation in this situation where a larger government is are only choice we have left to deal with the problems of our country. So when I hear John Boehner and his republican friends giving Obama a hard time for trying to fix thier mistakes I want to slap somone silly! The public is not ignornant to what we are dealing with and WHY!
Tax cuts, eviscerate domestic spending, tax cuts, deregulate, tax cuts, pork to contributors, tax cuts, runaway defense spending, and tax cuts.
Does that about cover it?
you can't expect to pay for the military complex that you've created on just 10% income tax and 25% for the rich. it just won't work, it hasn't worked and will never work.
This republican party JUST DOESN'T GET IT!
hmmm, last I heard about this, the repubs still didnt know what thier bill was going to COST ! I think I will wait for details about this..
Tax cuts for the RICH! Yay!
It has worked so well in the past, right?
Right?
I like the simpler tax idea. Pretty straightforward.
No numbers though is a joke.
...so they still have nothing?
Note to Boehner:
You're going to have to put together something with a little more substance than a PowerPoint presentation to get people on board with your party – ever.
Yep they threw a half @#$ budget together because they have been shown up as the men in Washington that are just sitting on their rear ends and doing nothing but saying NO NO NO NO........what did you expect......tax cuts, tax cuts, tax cuts.........that's really going to get us out of this mess.........we don't buy it..........give it up you are all full of GAS.........you boys have lost it and you ain't going to get it back.......
It's misleading to refer to it as a budget. It's more like a preview. I get that. Hopefully, we'll be able to clearly see the SPECIFICS next week. Come on, GOP. Prove Gibbs wrong.
How can you still be talking about tax cuts? Im sick of hearing about private health care. We elected Obama for tpublic health care, and ousted GOP because they don't care about anyone but the RICH. ITS TIME TO REALIZE THAT GOP...YOU SUCK. YOUR OLD. YOUR DYING....time to re-invent. Why don't you start by forming a GOP that doesn't cater to the religious right, and actually offer policy differences that come from informed thinking rather then religious beliefs...
President Obama .
Why are we billing anyone OUT.
They did it theresefl.not us taxs payers . BAD MOVE,
ALLSO these VETS need to get everything we had gave them
at last there where over they keeping us safl .
And theys bounce check well my husbond work for 33 years and he didnt get bounce,,,,,, I cant belive there need this or should get it and there should br made too pay 90% back /////////.
Can it seriously be called a buget without any, you know, umm numbers?
18 pages? Comic books are longer than that.
Not a single number was in this mess. The party of ZERO!!!!!!!!!!!
I read their proposal. It was a joke. It's not even 18 pages. It has a bunch of small photos and irrelevant diagrams (that are really little more than doodles) and I think they put those in there just to take up space. Remove those and the document is really about 10 pages. Literally. It literally has NO numbers other than the mention of "a marginal tax rate of 10 percent for income up to $100,000 and 25 percent for any income above that level." This is pitiful. Obama's budget outline (140 pages long) was released, literally, a month ago. On February 26th, 2009. What is the hold up on the alternative? You can look up both plans online. Compare the two. You will laugh.
The Reps plan probably did not cost enough and was to simple for Dems to comprehend.
Now lets see, the repukes want to lower the tax rate to 10% on incomes of $100K. Gee fella's, you had total control of the white house and both chambers of congress for six years, before you got your butts whipped in 06. So we all have to ask ourselves can we trust them to do this when they didn't do it or even mention it when they had the power. My memory says all they did while in power is lower the taxes for the rich at the expense of the rest of us, and I won't even mention what they did to the economy as a result of the tax cuts for the wealthy. So now they open their pie holes and want sane and rationale people to believe this is what they are going to do, really.........
You are like Palin you can not even answer a question appropriately. What is one of your ideas to cut taxes, especially on the rich. You are still the party of no. I would cut my arm off before I vote republican.
"It's better." Why is it better? "Because we're the GOP and we just say it is and that makes it so."
GOP GOT 0 PLAN.............and their instruction booklet to DO NOTHING!!!!!!!
More of the same garbage that got us into this mess. Exactly what we need. Ugh...
Well this certainly sounds like more of the same thing that we have had for the past 8 years, and look where that got us. They better come up with some new ideas. Personally, I'm with my President all the way.
Sounds like a good plan to me.
Rep. Boehner; You are an idiot and a disgrace to our Country. You repubs just can't get over the fact that Obama won and you didn't. Being a–holes won't win you the election, but it will make the world more sure of what you really are. Ignorant, stubborn, arrogant, and brainless. Get over it and Help the man who won the election for a reason. He's the one with the brain.
That... what ever the hell that was (19 pages of BS)..is very pathetic.....
I think someone needs to go to the corner and take a timeout.
Spending is way out of controll. It has to be cut down. It can't go on like it is.
So the Reps have a budget ready that's not ready yet to be presented to Congress but will be ready next week, so that means the President lied? (according to Boehner)
yeah well the devil is in the details.
Correction: should read "GOP releases shiny brochure that says they have a plan." Common, CNN. Don't play us all for fools.
Anything is better than the democrat tax and spend to socialism.
A Republican coloring book of ideas – Lol!!!!!!!!!!
All flash and no substance. Didn't we just have 8 years of that?
THE GOT NO PLAN PARTY...is this the plan we were waiting for???
If this was the President spouting this gibarish it would be all over the MSM 24/7.
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Pressed for specific budget numbers, Boehner said Rep. Paul Ryan, the top Republican on the budget committee, wouldn’t be releasing that information until next week.
Yeah, that's about right. I can hear it now.
"We have a Republican alternative! We don't know how much it costs, it doesn't address the things that need to be addressed, but boy is it cheaper! Did we mention the tax cuts?"
My fondest wish is to hope that the American people see through this crap for the obstructionist propaganda it is...
Where were you blowhards when the village idiot was running up the huge deficits? Crawl back in your hole.
OMG!! Mr President stay as far away from this budget as you can get! It stinks to high heaven!! Republicans have just destroyed any credibility they had with the American people!
Ha! Ha! Ha! A proposal with no specifics on the money it will cost to deliver these policies. Give me a break! I'll be waiting for next week. Plus, this 'alternative' plan includes the same ole, same ole tax cuts for the rich, etc. that we had under the Bush administration. More of the same. Go back to the table Republicans and come up with REAL solutions!!!
LIARS ... This is not a budget .... this is not a credible alternative. Hand waving does not serve as data / facts.
On Tuesday the PRESIDENT indicted the GOP for lacking an alternative to his budget. Who do they think they are fooling by rushing out this toliet paper 2 days later?
Admit the truth GOP ... you are following the lead of Barack Hussien Obama. His team is smarter than yours ... his team OUTWORKS yours.
The PRESIDENT caught you asleep at the wheel ... you challenged him and were unprepared with any SUBSTANCE to back up your challenge. I would recommend you not do that again.
so, rather than holding a press conference to announce news, ideas, and plans, the Party of No Ideas held a press conference to announce that they will hold a press conference in the future to possibly give details about a potential idea that they might formulate in the coming days?
Meanwhile, President Obama consistently talks intelligently about the details of the ideas he proposed in his budget proposal last month. Again, elections have consequences.
JOHN BOEHNER IS A FRAUD LIKE MANY OF HIS FELLOW REPUGS. THEY MAKE PLENTY NOISE WITH NO COMMON SENSE.
IS'NT THAT THE SAME PROPOSAL THAT HAVE US IN THIS HELL HOLE THAT GEORGE BUSH HAD? PLEASE GROW UP PEOPLE, THERE IS TOO MUCH AT STAKE. PUT AWAY POLITICS AND REMEMBER WHO PUT YOU IN POWER." WE THE PEOPLE"
mmmmmh. Arrogant? Interesting!
HEADLINE: Congressional Republicans provide 18-Page IOU to the American public.
Boehner reportedly tells staffers that "my dog ate the GOP budget proposal".
Was this on the back of their Britney Program?
What a joke. A 19 page budget with no facts and no figures and more tax cuts for the wealthy.
Is that really the way you pronounce his last name? Things that make you go hmmmmmmm!
Sigh...and how doyou run the gov't with minimalized tax revenue? That's right, you borrow. THERE IS NO PROPOSAL UNTIL THERE ARE SPECIFICS. This is an empty set of cover pages, a sham designed to give them the opportunity to say they offered something but it was rejected out of hand.
That is just a book cover, there are no details inside. Republicans still playing games.
Here's another GOP idiot. He holds two or three pieces of paper, calls it a budget, but there's no numbers inside. When asked a question, his response is wait until next week. The GOP truly think Americans are stupid. I'm sure all that's inside is the words, let cut taxes. Inside that pretty blue cover is the same thing between Boehner's ears, NOTHING. We should change his name from Boehner to Bonehead!
This is cute, where was this so called blueprint when they had their hero Bush in office?????????
I personally think we the people should vote them all out and start fresh.
Congrats Bohener, congrats Repubs. This is starting to look like a Democracy is supposed to look, with two opposing sides of differing views presenting and discussing alternatives.
The final necessary step will be compromise. Repubs and Dems will need to step up to the plate, take a lesson from someone like Bob Dole, a staunch conservative who remained true to his values but nonetheless compromised in order to get the People's business done.
Sounds good to me!
LOL I can't stop laughing. Boehner, Pence and Kantor really should be doing stand up comedy.
This would make a great Saturday Night Live Skit.
This is incredible. The next thing we're going to hear from the Republicans is either going to be, "I know you are, but what am I!?" or, "My dad can beat your dad up!". Good god GOP, get a clue already!
Let me guess....TAX CUTS FOR THE WEALTHY AND BIG BUSINESS. That is their answer for everything!
Where oh where are the commentaries on how light on details, and well, facts this is? The media is quick to jump on Obama for not having things down to the DNA of the drafters and the Republicans offer THIS? Where are you, oh CNN on what was presented???
Now it is a party of Reaction~
DOA! That smirking half-wit has not had a significant thought in months.
That is not a budget. It is the same old, same old posturing for the base of the republican party. It is their campaign manifesto. Any thing of which they accuse the President, just look carefully, that is exactly what they are doing. When some numbers are offered at the last minute they will spin it to say that their proposal was not considered.
It is just a twelve page blue print of a bridge to no where."Thanks, but no thanks."
When will repubes get it through their heads that their methods do not work? Critical analysis of American history shows Government programs help Americans ( FDR, 3rd best president behind Lincoln and Washington). A critical analysis of healthcare in other countries will show several models that work better than our version...
Stop treating healthcare as a business and start treating it as a right.
I don't think I'll bother commenting here anymore, too many people talking at one another here.
18 whole pages! Whoo, whoo! I'll bet they barely had time to finish coloring all of them. What a joke.
when did CNN become as bad as Faux News?
I used to respect the GOP. They were always a party of thinkers – tought minded, maybe heartless at times, but intellectuals to the manor born. NOT ANYMORE! C'mon! This 19 page essay is a joke. If you are going to counterpunch, use a haymaker! You must reform healthcare to relieve our businesses of having to carry the financial burden and the reduced competitiveness that results. You must reduce our dependence on foreign oil because it is too dangerous not to. We must improve PUBLIC education or we will be outdone by the Chinese and the Indians!! C'mon republicans!!!
say boogie boogie man!
It is not a "budget alternative" when you give only 19 pages with NO NUMBERS. THAT is a joke.
If we wanted principles, I could have 'googled' the keywords "Republican Principles".
It is easy to talk about a vision of expenditures and cut-backs, but if there are no numbers to support that vision...then that could not possibly be a budget. As far as I am concerned, these "principles" might amount to the very deficit that Republicans are fighting back....there are no numbers to show otherwise...even Boehner has no idea. He said the details will be rolling out soon building on these "principles".
Fools...they have nothing to offer!
Okay, so Republicans had a hissy fit with Geithner when he didn't give specifics but they expect that their so called budget without specifics like cost is supposed to inspire confidence. Bohener looked rather foolish today and so did the Republicans. Are they for real?
Then you have all these Republicans whining about Gibbs, please. You all don't have a problem with Republicans whining day in and day out about hoping President Obama fails, oh, excuse me that President Obama's policies fail. Get serious people. Republicans are looking more and more pitiful by the day.
Their budget does not contain numbers. Wow, and you call President Obama experienced. He doesn't need that Harvard education to deal with this group of Republicans.
@Zion
Their budget does not contain numbers. Wow, and you call President Obama experienced. He doesn't need that Harvard education to deal with this group of Republicans.
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Sorry, correcting myself. You call him "inexperienced."
hey john who much for your budget?
Plan and simple give it a rest, the Republicans are done. A day late and a dollar short.
So, the Republicans present their plan and all the White House Press Secretary can do is make stupid jokes about it. Guess what Gibbs... the little we know about the Republican plan sounds a lot better than the little we know about Obama's plan.
'you'll see next week'
hooooooohahahahhooooooohahaha
sorry. That's pretty pathetic, Boner
A 19-page collection of "talking points" does not a budget proposal make (apologies to Mr. Shakespeare). This is even more true when the vast majority of it contains flat out lies. Single proprietorship businesses were NOT responsible for 80 per cent of the job growth in 2005. Referencing some limited cases in England where patients were refused treatments (without outlining all of the specifics for each case) becomes completely irrelevant when our privatized system does the same thing every day. Not only is the Republican leadership completely ignorant and out of touch, they are blatant liars as well.
hey john how much for the BUDGET?
MY 16 YEAR OLD SON HOMEWORK PAPER WAS LONGER THEN THE 16 PAGES THAT THE REPUBS CAME OUT WITH. IS THIS THE 2 PARTY SYSTEM THAT WE HAVE TO LOOK FORWARD TOO. GOD HELP US IF THIS IS WHAT THE GOP IS ALL ABOUT NOW.
Mr Boehner launched a most distasteful insult today.
Mr Boehner declared in his news conference that two days ago, the president said he had not seen a budget proposal from the Republicans. Then he said: 'Well it's just not true. Here it is...'
He flat out called his president a liar, and told a blatant lie in doing so. As the Republican budget was unveiled today, it is quite correct that the president had not seen one two days ago.
And now we learn the the Rebublican budget proposal is more a work in progress than a final proposal.
Shame on you, Congressman. I expect maturity and honor from our leaders. Your behavior is something I expect to see in a kindergarten sandbox.
More tax cuts for the rich...how stupid are the republicans? They just DONT GET IT!. Tax cuts for the rich DO NOT WORK. Its been prove time and time again. Seriously, how mentally challenged are they?
HA! HA! HA! GOP stand for Got-0-Plans...
Rolls Out budget Plan? I thought they only have 19 page of a talking point. And you call it a rolls out plan? It is amazing!
18 pages? Does it come with connect-the-dots so the GOP members win a decoder ring?
Morons, all. They have sat in hearings, and their alternative covers 18 pages? Let me guess, it starts with "tax cut", and ends with "tax-cut", interspersed with "tax cut".
That "budget plan" Boehner is holding is like two pages long!
Who in the hell do these people think that they are fooling?
"You'll see next week"?????
Garbage!
We need a government that works, and this bickering for the sake of bickering needs to stop!
I read it in a few minutes as well. What a joke. There are more details in a cartoon! The cut and paste pictures from the internet are nice, though.
This is ridiculous. The Grand Opposition Party continues to show its true self. They oppose everything that the president does but have no plan of their own. They cannot even come up with a realistic looking budget. Who ever heard of a budget with no numbers! They also seem to have forgotten the fact that the reduced taxes for the rich and reduced government regulation caused our economic woes in the first place.
Nineteen pages!!! HA HA HA
hmm i could rip that "Budget" in half with my bare hands– i wonder if there are the names of communist infiltrators in there. hahahahahahahahahahahahah...
SHOW US THE MONEY FIGURES. WHO EVER HEARD OF SOMEONE SUBMITTING A BUDGET WITHOUT DOLLAR FIGURES.
"But, when pressed for the details on how the GOP plan differed from the President's, Boehner acknowledged he didn’t have many. 'This is a blueprint for where we’re going,' Bohener [sic] said. ... The blueprint includes familiar Republican proposals to limit wasteful government spending, cut the size of government, and provide incentives to private entities to expand access to healthcare." From Rep. Mike Pence (R-Indiana) ... he will always believe "that a minority in Congress plus the American people equals the majority. ... We intend to take our case for fiscal discipline, growth and tax relief to the American people from sea to shining sea and if the American people will rise up, anything is possible on Capitol Hill," Pence said.
OK people, LOOK at the GOP "Alternative"! It is 18 pages of a really bad marketing job. The GOP plan is a cutesy-pie little reiteration of all of their presidential campaign rhetoric. The "blueprint" is little bubbles in the margin that show how their plan "Curbs Spending–Lowers Taxes–Creates Jobs–Controls Debt". Guess what, Boner, Pence & Company, we (meaning the majority of the American people) DID rise up, actually just last November, and summarily rejected you and what you stand for and voted you and your tired old ideas OUT. I think you see the end of all your "rich white man" futures, and you definitely don't need shades because your futures ain't so bright! There is a reason you Republicans are a minority in Congress–figure it out! This "news" is SO very old.
Look at it in the picture and in the video. Physically, it couldn't be any more than six pages long! This is either a joke or it is written on microfiche. Can it be viewed online somewhere?
We have seen blueprints for years boys, its time to put a plan on paper and accept the responsibily. Oh, wait aceept responsibilty I am sorry what was I thinking.
If the Republican budget cuts cost then it is common since and will work.
Does anyone remember that the size of government increased under Bush – CHeney? Anyone remember he created another cabinet position (homeland security) along with it's bueracracy? Anyone remember Bush took the nation debt from $5 trillion to $11 trillion? ANyone have a good explanation why a hedgefund manager making $400 million/yr should be in the 15% tax bracket? These and many other items are brought to you by the Republicans.
Now, after Obama's been in office for over 2 months, the Republicans have an outline of what they want to do? How original. Let me guess: trickle down theory will solve everything. Mandatory Prayer in schools. Outlaw abortions. Make the tax rate for anyone making over $1M, 5%. Free guns for everyone. Decimating federal land for prospecting anything for $5 deposit.
Is that about it.????
I have just completed reading the GOP Budget Outline. I am stunned, insulted, and infuriated. Seventeen half pages of "Obama Sucks" is not a governing or budgeting plan for this nation. Get serious about the American people and the job we hired you to do or GET OUT OF THE WAY.
Pressed for specific budget numbers, Boehner said Rep. Paul Ryan, the top Republican on the budget committee, wouldn’t be releasing that information until next week.......Next WEEK ????LOL
Here we go again! Another tax cut for the rich. Did it work the first
time? NO! They shipped their money and jobs over seas. No new
ideas, just the same old cut taxes,freeze spending,let them eat
cake mentality!
The Republicans are stale, throw them out with the old bread.
What a joke these Republicans continue to make of themselves as idiots. The whole party has gone George Bush, all of them dumb as dog stuff!!!
How can you say...Here it is....when there is nothing? If our unemployement is approaching 10%....with the repugs ideas....it will be 30%-50%...and more without health care.
Boehner....the magic man...now you see me...now you don't
What I find interesting is that 'centrist democrats' are now the new republican party with regard to actual policy and practice and most republicans just seem to be toddlers having a fit. This is very sad(to see grown men behave this way).
What a joke the repubs on the hill have become.
Hold on their GOP!
My household budget is a few pages shorter than the GOP budget for our nation, but isn't something very important missing?
(Hint: my budget has numbers.)
Why are the Replublicans saying Obama's budget plan is irresponsible? Simply because he is a Democrat.
Stop the Replublican/Democrat BS
Wow, their budget has no line items, no numbers, except, for a tax cut for the rich and famous. Wow, the party of no is still the party of Got Old Principles. Repubs, come on, think, think, we are in a crisis situation and you still want the americal people to say Yes We Can to the same ole stuff that got us into this mess. Dah.
The American people have chosen Barack Obama as the leader who can best achieve their objectives. Most of President Obama's team and many others fundamentally agree on those objectives and on solutions that will get us where most of us want to be.
House Republicans just don't get it. If Boehmer et al disagree with the goals of the majority of Americans, their policies will be counterproductive to those goals. That is why the Republicans lost the election in the first place.
Few people will heed another Republican budget proposal except perhaps other Republicans. If Bohemer really wanted to contribute productive solutions, he would stop his obstructive meddling and be mindful of one thing. The will of the majority (of the American people) should drive his actions and not his own agenda.
Let's look at the this whole Republican budget fiasco from the perspective of a business (after all, the Republican party is the party of business.) Let's say Boehner is a company exec who opposes the company president's new budget, claiming it spends too much of the stock-holders dollars. He has been doing so for two months, every chance he gets. The new president finally comes before the board of directors and says that all that Boehner can do is complain because he has no alternative plan. Boehner then comes before the board waving a so-called "alternative budget" that he claims will save the company money and therefore save the investors money. When the chairman of the board asks to see the plan, he fines nothing but rhetoric; no details, no numbers, just rhetoric. Mr. Boehmer would have found himself excorted out of the building and told never to set foot on the premises again.
This is exactly why the Republicans have lost the last two elections. They have gotten by on waving the American flag, flaunting God's name and extolling the virtues of unfettered capitalism for so long that they have forgotten that to govern well takes substance, not drivel.
I don't care how bad the numbers are, and I am certain they are complete rubbish, you put something together, thank you
A budget with no numbers! A war with no exit plan! A president with
no brain! That's the republicans.
"Them".. boys... the republicans just can't let go of an opportunity to lower theTAX on fat income bank accounts... so they can get more money...have you ever seen them fail at it.. take the last 8 years.. all they could talk about was getting the rich boys more money... they didn't care about a balanced budget.. nor paying for the Iraq War....why when everyone has a credit card including the USA government..?
Call that A GOP talking point deja vu memo not a Budget.
Wow what a party? No one has a head to think in the republican party?
They need a big revolution in that party. They need to throw out this buch of fools old ways of thinking rational people out.
Your kidding right an 18 page Federal budget. What is that blank pages? The minority staff budget is bigger than 18 pages. Did they even include that?
House GOP Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, held up an 18 page document entitled, "The Republican Road to Recovery" and said, "well, it's just not true, because here it is Mr. President."
When asked what the goal was, he answered curtly, “to do better.” "you'll see next week." "Oh, it'll be better."..............Pardon my southern drawl, but ya'll answer me this. Is it me or do these people have a personal, not a political, vendetta against President Obama? These people are acting more like school children who are angry at the cute new kid for stealing their shine. Are they freakin' kidding me? They've rush to put out a recovery plan to appear as though they were in the game, then turns out to be yet another political ploy? This is sooo surreal. They looking more foolish each and every day. Un-freakin-believable!
CUT THE SIZE OF GOVERNMENT!?!? Bush grew the government more than any other president in our history. Where were these guys then? Oh, that's right, they just accepted any and everything that Bush did or said. What a joke!
LOL, where's the budget? You know, spreadsheets and charts? balances..............
I have a B.B.A circa 1973, but I don't think budgets have changed much in the intervening years, I have seen a budget in the corporate world, and this is no "budget"! I would love to be in the CBO when this
"budget" is submitted for analysis!
Remove the front 2 pages, the header pages and the Power point graphics and you are down from 19 to about 10 pages of "substance".
Of these 10 pages, about 8 are devoted to propaganda bashing President Obama's proposal and about 2 pages of "solutions".
One "solution" health care costs is to cross shop health insurance among states. So, let us say I get quotes from 3 states. State 1 is 890, state 2 is 835 and state 3 is 910.
The republican "solution to health care costs" only resolves the fact that I cannot afford health insurance in multiple states. You cannot make this up!
And republicans wonder why they were resoundingly kicked out of office?? Please see exhibit A.
This is just a brochure that would be at home on one of the end tables in the lobby of the RNC.
More appropriate for reading while awaiting your stall in the men's room...
The republicans and democrats are full of hog wash.... TEA PARTY ANYONE?????
Oh, that's rich (literally) and unoriginal. More tax cuts for the wealthiest incomes (a 10% drop?!) without means of balancing budgets. You must be joking, Republicans. There has been enough of that nonsense, which got us into this mess. Thanks, but no thanks!
The "Party of NO", with the roll out of their new budget(?) is fast becoming the party of "NOTHING!"
I really doubt the Republicans will awake from their amnesia because it doesn’t suit their purposes.
They have benefited from the lack of attention on the part of the citizenry and it has enabled them to continue on with their self-serving and ruinous ideology.
Here it is Mr. President okay now what'sin it,really a two year old child can hold up a blue piece a paper and say here it is Mr. President. Please people get serious or just get out the President's way.President Obama you are the man.
I find this humorous. I watched this "Here It Is Mr President" saga on several stations today. Cantor who accused the President of lying because supposedly this plan was presented to Obama several weeks ago, but never came up with a copy of what he submitted. Today they present this "outline" of what they are proposing. One reporter said that while the content was sketchy the cover it was presented in was nice. Cantor in the mean time is in a meeting with many Republicans trying to brainstorm up a plan. The Party of "No" is going to have to put their plans out there to be scrutinized by the Media, Congress and the President if they are ever to look like they can lead this country again
I really doubt the Republicans will awake from their amnesia because it doesn’t suit their purposes.
They have benefited from the lack of attention on the part of the citizenry and it has enabled them to continue on with their self-serving and ruinous ideology.
Maybe an 18-page document will actually be READ by Congress and the president? I mean - just HOW much do you really need to cite the most important points without causing brain hemorrhage? So let's see what the details are next week - shall we?
uuuuuuh, nice folder. Let me see inside....lol
It’s not a matter of principle, Johnny Boy! Everyone already KNOWS the history. Nice try to garner up some cred though.
And where were they for the 6 years they controlled Congress and the WH? Oh, right, spending money hand over fist on defense and lowering tax rates do that there was no money coming in...I hope they do have a viable plan, and I bet, unlike Bush, Obama will actually consider it. But they'll hate that, because then he would be trying to work with them, wouldn't he?
That darn ol’ up or down vote the Republicans clamored for and used when they were in power, talk about karma!
The most glaring example yet of the Got nO Plan party…….
This was hilarious, call a press conference to introduce the world to your butt ugly baby and tell everyone how beautiful it is. WHY does anyone vote for these clowns anymore?
BWAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
It's almost unbelievable how easy it was to get the blustering party of NO! to snatch up Obama's bait.
Boehner...what a hilarious performance.
I bet it took Pres. Obama longer to fill out his ncaa bracket than it took for the repubs to throw together their brochure...ah, budget.
Oh come CNN get with the good stuff.
Like....................Many Americans that once supported Obama no
longer do.
His approval rating falls deeper and deeper as the
days go by.
Since he's been elected even other countries like us
even less. That wasn't going to happen since the
"Great One" took office.
And I could go on and on, but it's my bedtime here in The Great State
of Texas and I'm tired.
So goodnight all my friends from both parties.
Tomorrow is another day and hopefully we can all come together and make things better. Just don't ask me to change my way of living, thinking and values because I will not. I'm a great American and that didn't happen just by accident. This country, the freedom, the people and the opportunities made me a great American and an American that is proud of her country.
We're not perfect, but I'd rather live here than anywhere else on the planet.
God Bless Us All And God Bless The USA!
Good night ya'll
When will they grow up? Thank GOD they are not in control anymore!
Idiots
If they don't have any details until next week, why did they waste both time and money revealing just an outline? Now they look unprofessional and out of touch with reality. When Mr. Obama said that he likes to know what he's talking about before he speaks to the public, maybe the republicans should've taken that into consideration for themselves.
da GOP is da party of NO
a budget without numbers do they think that were all stupid it should be called The Grand Illusion