donald trump? lol.
Perhaps he should get a decent haircut......Trump that is.
you don't see anybody defending Edwards.
but if he wasa repb you'd bedefending him.
its you wingnts who think as yuor told.
look at congress.the Dems vote as they think.
the repubs oteas they are told.
thats why we recently saw 6 Repubs votea gainst a bill they sponsored.
they were told too.
the fact it was something they wanted didn't matter. they followed orders.
individual thinking is verboten
and with the Pay as you go.
Senate Republicans Called For Commitment To PAYGO Before Voting Against It
Sens. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Susan Collins (R-ME)
In his State of the Union address last night, President Obama urged the
Senate to adopt pay-as-you-go rules (PAYGO), which essentially stipulate
that all spending increases will be offset by either cuts elsewhere or tax
increases. "When the vote comes tomorrow, the Senate should restore the
pay-as-you-go law that was a big reason for why we had record surpluses in
the 1990s," Obama said.
Today, the Senate followed through, and considering all of the deficit
fearmongering that has been going on in Congress, you'd think that it would
have passed by a fairly wide margin. But no. Instead, the rules passed on a
party line vote of 60-40.
And the blanket Republican opposition is particularly interesting
considering that some Senate Republicans used to support PAYGO, even when it
was opposed by their own party. For instance, in 2004, three current Senate
Republicans - Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME), Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), and Sen.
John McCain (R-AZ) - joined 47 Democrats in adopting PAYGO, against the
majority Republicans' wishes (although the rule was ultimately scuttled when
Congress failed to pass a budget). The next year, the same three senators
were joined by Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH) in a failed attempt to implement
the rule.
Yet all four of them opposed the rule today. Here's what they've had to say
in favor of PAYGO in the past:
VOINOVICH: I just don't understand how we can continue to go this way.
We're
living in a dream world. This deficit continues to grow.
COLLINS: [PAYGO is] much-needed restraint for members of Congress as we
wrestle with fiscal decisions.
SNOWE: I believe now is the time for both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue to
commit to pay-as-you-go rules for both revenues and spending.
Just last year, Snowe approved of Obama's advocating for PAYGO. And in the
last few weeks, all of these Republicans have voiced concerns about the
deficit and spending. So what changed? And why did all the supposed deficit
hawks in the Senate - like Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) - vote against it as well?
Could it be that they're actually deficit peacocks, who "like to preen and
call attention to themselves, but are not sincerely interested" in
addressing deficits?
In last night's address, Obama chided Senate Republicans, saying that "just
saying no to everything may be good short-term politics, but it's not
leadership. We were sent here to serve our citizens, not our ambitions. So
let's show the American people that we can do it together." They're not off
to a good start.