Article

2021-04-16 Home Front: Politix

Senate Republicans push for national commission to balance budget

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Fred 2021-04-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [17 views ] Top

#1 ...As long as we're dreaming, can I have a pony? The spending isn't going to change, just the reasons for it - and it's entirely too late in any event.

Before the damned Chinese Flu, we probably had 8 or 9 years to do something, and none of the things would have been very palatable at all. Now, we are literally making up money out of thin air, and nobody cares any more. I truly expect the wall to smack us in the face just in time for the 2024 elections.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2021-04-16 06:13|| 2021-04-16 06:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Right. You had the House, Senate, and Executive in early 2000. You did nothing. That's why the Tea Party got started and the Trunk leadership did all it could to kill it. It's going to take a destructive crash before anything changes that includes a radical downsizing of the national government and its programs.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-04-16 07:41|| 2021-04-16 07:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Political theater and bullshi@. Nothing more

Posted by Besoeker 2021-04-16 08:08|| 2021-04-16 08:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Another whiff of bullshit - note the proposed timeframe. Paul Ryan (who used to talk a really good game at this stuff) also talked in decades. It's like the global warming / climate change doom goblin shit - so far over the horizon it'll never materialize.

Posted by Raj 2021-04-16 08:55|| 2021-04-16 08:55|| Front Page Top

#5 It's not about the budget. It's about the size, scope and power of government at all levels.

It never has ceased to grow.

Posted by badanov 2021-04-16 09:37|| 2021-04-16 09:37|| Front Page Top

#6 You had the House, Senate, and Executive in early 2000. You did nothing. That's why the Tea Party got started and the Trunk leadership did all it could to kill it.

Quite a few of those Republicans have retired, Procopius2k, replaced by young Trump Republicans — assertive, combative, pro-law and order, pro-gun, pro-smaller government. In Ohio we have three competing to replace Senator Mike DeWine, an embarrassment of riches.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-04-16 17:48|| 2021-04-16 17:48|| Front Page Top

23:58 Pholutle Glaitch6819
22:00 Anomalous Sources
21:59 Frank G
21:49 Silentbrick
21:17 These Forkbeard7574
20:57 Anomalous Sources
20:52 Anomalous Sources
20:48 Anomalous Sources
20:41 Anomalous Sources
20:25 Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589
20:03 Thing From Snowy Mountain
19:44 swksvolFF
19:14 Mercutio
19:14 Hunter Rodriguez
19:11 Omaviling Grumble8585
19:10 Raj
19:10 Mercutio
19:04 SteveS
19:02 Mercutio
18:54 SteveS
18:48 swksvolFF
17:55 g(r)omgoru
17:48 Muggsy Lumumba1839
17:48 Procopius2k