DeLay says the era of big government is over!

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From the Washington Times (http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20050914-120153-3878r.htm):

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said yesterday that Republicans have done so well in cutting spending that he declared an "ongoing victory," and said there is simply no fat left to cut in the federal budget.

Mr. DeLay was defending Republicans' choice to borrow money and add to this year's expected $331 billion deficit to pay for Hurricane Katrina relief. Some Republicans have said Congress should make cuts in other areas, but Mr. DeLay said that doesn't seem possible.

"My answer to those that want to offset the spending is sure, bring me the offsets, I'll be glad to do it. But nobody has been able to come up with any yet," the Texas Republican told reporters at his weekly briefing.

Asked if that meant the government was running at peak efficiency, Mr. DeLay said, "Yes, after 11 years of Republican majority we've pared it down pretty good."
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Where's the "I gave myself a hernia from laughing so hard" smiley?
 
de lay of de land

The Republicans are fat and smug and blind. They are in power, for now, only because most sane Americans recognize that The Other Side is even worse, populated by political lunatics and moral thumbsuckers.

Delay is one more good reason not to be a Republican and, seriously, to think third party. Many of us know that the time has come for alternative thinking--if we want America to survive. If the right leader steps up '08 could be a lot more interesting than watching Hillary Obama mudwrestle with The Unknown Comic for the White House.
 
Maybe he was being facetious.

Rush Limbaugh was talking about this today on his radio show. Limbaugh's opinion is that DeLay was joking and giving the Democrats a little jibe at the same time. Limbaugh might have the transcript of today's show at his website.

If Tommy boy Delay wasn't joking then he needs a good smacking... with the federal budget. :evil:
 
A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about serious money.
 
could be just a ploy

By stating that the government is lean it will easily encourage people to disagree, and then offer up solutions on where to cut expense, neither party like losing its funding, but calling BS on him would result in bringing areas to light to reduce. He did say that if you identify an area that can be reduced to bring it forward. Maybe this was just a ploy to get folks to admit they are fat on pork. One can at least hope that he is calling a bluf.
 
I hope DeLay was being sarcastic . . . if he was serious, then he's as out of touch on the budget as Bush is on the border.
 
Guys, the emperor is naked. DeLay is serious. To him, the huge programs are all essential spending, and "waste" is comprised of the little pissant stuff like the Tea Tasting Board.

Hear hoofbeats...expect horses, not zebras.
 
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said yesterday that Republicans have done so well in cutting spending that he declared an "ongoing victory," and said there is simply no fat left to cut in the federal budget.
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I'm really old and still remember some things.... way back when, the worst insult that could be hurled was when the repubs would accuse the dems of being "tax and spend".....

Fast forward and the GOP is now the party of MASSIVE pork spending, to wit the horrific debacle of "Star wars" and all the sink hole projects that spawned like the $6 BILLION supercollider in the Texas desert that now sits unfinished after $3B was spent on it.

The new GOP mode of operation is:

BORROW AND SPEND

I have actually heard GOP "expert" economists diatribe at length about how the "prosperity" under Reagan proved that DEFICITS DON'T MATTER.... translated, what that means is:

Why should I care if I turn this country into a third world nation in 25 years.... I'll be dead by then.
 
could be just a ploy
By stating that the government is lean it will easily encourage people to disagree, and then offer up solutions on where to cut expense, neither party like losing its funding, but calling BS on him would result in bringing areas to light to reduce. He did say that if you identify an area that can be reduced to bring it forward. Maybe this was just a ploy to get folks to admit they are fat on pork. One can at least hope that he is calling a bluf.
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I like you're enthiusiam, but I suspect that scenario is about as likely as the one where that flattened out possum that just got run over by an 18-wheeler is just "playing possum" to fool the other cars.

Anytime a theory involves a poltician being honest, clever, or doing something to intentionally cut funding...... you can be sure that theory needs to be revised.
 
This is classic Keynesian economics. Bush is just Roosevelt III. The War on Terror is just a low-intensity version of WWII to sop up the damage from a low-intensity version of the Great Depression. If there was significant unemployment, there would be a draft in addition to the crazy spending. You know I'm right.

They could balance the budget and give us a 2 trillion surplus tomorrow if they would just turn off the public feeding trough.
 
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said yesterday that Republicans have done so well in cutting spending that he declared an "ongoing victory," and said there is simply no fat left to cut in the federal budget.
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Bloody hell. Please tell me he didn't really say that. That's it. I am no longer a Republican. It's over.
 
delay

Bountyhunter, you are right, i was being overly optimistic. as my momma used to say wish in one hand and cr@p in the other and see what gets full first. I’m not that old, but I sure do miss my old country, but that said, I was over in the UK for a few months and its sure better here. I just do not like the trend we are sliding.
 
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said yesterday that Republicans have done so well in cutting spending that he declared an "ongoing victory," and said there is simply no fat left to cut in the federal budget.
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As they say about politicians, they will tell you that up is down and down is up. Gee, if I were in charge of the budget, a) there would be no deficit b) there would be a tax cut and c) we would start paying off the national debt, all at the same time.

We've got two big-government parties (Dems and Repubs) and one small-government party that gets 0.5% of the vote (Libertarians).
 
The main thing the two parties have succeeded at is tricking Americans into thinking the Dems and Repubs are at opposite ends of a rope, engaged in a tug-of-war.

Reality is that they are holding hands and skipping merrily together towards an authoritarian state.

Like Standing Wolf says, we're not there yet -- but I say, the goons' gungrabbing response in NOLA just took us one helluva lot closer.
 
I feel like a ship at sea in a hurricane as my political course gets shoved all over. This year has given me a lot to think about though, that's for sure. I used to be a pretty adement Republican supporter, but after seeing things like this, I just can't accept it. They used to be the lesser of two evils to me.

As usual I can't find the quote of whomever said that a man must vote his conscience and I find that to be true now. I will have to make it a libertarian vote next time. At least I'd lose the race with a clear conscience.
 
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