Democrats mock GOP on budget
Democrats have been giddily calling Republicans the "party of no," accusing the GOP of opposing President Obama's budget and economic plans without offering proposals of their own.
Now, they're chortling over the alternative budget outline that House Republicans unveiled on Thursday. The GOP is warning that Obama's $3.6 trillion plan will bankrupt the country and worsen the recession with tax hikes.
But Democrats are mocking the plan for its lack of detail.
"This DNC ad is brought to you by the number 0," a new web ad by the Democratic National Committee t says on screen.
"That’s how many numbers are in the GOP’s budget: 0," painting the number in bright red.
With whimsical music, the video then shows a series of cable talking heads remarking on the absence of detail. But Republicans will see more evidence of media bias.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs joined in the mocking on Thursday. Asked whether he had perused it, he replied, "I did. It took me several minutes to read it." The White House press corps laughed.
"I will note that ... there's one more picture of a windmill than there is of a chart of numbers. There's -- just for your knowledge, there's exactly one picture of a windmill."
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Nice that Gibbs and his party have so much to laugh about. However, the Democrats were known as the "party of No for a long time so it probably makes them feel better to retaliate. It's just hard to laugh with them when their boss is putting his country in the poor house and seems to be having a real good time doing it.
Well, Janie, the guy you voted for spent our tax dollars like a pimp with a week to live so maybe you should reflect on that. The only thing Republicans like to spend money on is killing people by the tens of thousands. I guess that is the Christian thing to do.
What goes around comes around. It is rightly hilarious that the Republicans have no better plans to fix the mess they got us into. And how embarrassing to offer something they call a "budget" that contains nothng more than rhetoric. Robert Gibbs, and America, for that matter, have every right mock such an absurdly hilarious attempt of "leadership."
Obama didnt put this country in the poor house, the republican party and Bush Co. did it. It is insulting after the HUGE amount documented issues and financial abuses with the previous administration by the right wingers to try to blame it on the dems and Obama. Did you think the recovery was going to be free? Did you think that what they did would not cost the American tax payer? Ya, its gonna hurt. Ya it is going to go a lot further down the rabbit hole before it starts climbing out. Don't blame the repair guy, blame the guy who broke it.
Don’t fool around with a rattlesnake or Empire, just because you think you have it pinned down.
Believe the most notable truth of H. Ross Perot, “First one who sees the rattlesnake --- kills it!”
Although superficially humorous, the DNC video about the Republican number “zero” is no joke.
The time for dealing AT ALL with these thieving, lying, proto-fascists is OVER.
ZERO is the number of negotiations with this enemy, which is a corporatist EMPIRE.
Obama is certainly making a huge mistake here by being bipartisan with the Empire’s paid killers --- akin to sticking one’s hand out to a wounded rattlesnake.
Even the then-future Republican President, Gen. Eisenhower, when he was the Supreme Allied Commander after fighting and beating the Nazi EMPIRE, did not so foolishly believe in a Republican 'big tent' as to invite Nazis into negotiations about how the political economy of Europe should be arranged.
Obama is letting his concern about bipartisanship lead him to open his 'big tent' to the inexorable, implacable, ineluctable, obdurate, obstinate, remorseless, resolute, rigid, unappeasable, unbending, uncompromising, unmovable, unrelenting, and unyielding fascists sworn in blood to protect the ruling-elite 'corporate financial Empire' which controls our country behind the facade of its two-party, 'Vichy' sham of democracy.
Obama has apparently not yet learned the seminal lesson that Ike learned in fighting an EMPIRE --- when you are fighting Empire for your very life, and you finally win, you do NOT compromise and let they, their dogs of war, and their rapacious beasts into your Commander's tent!
Alan MacDonald
Sanford, Maine
Thereis no media bias. The GOP budget proposal looks stupid because it is.
Obama could balance the budget very easilly. Do what Bush did and LIE like not putting the cost of the war there. Not investing in a new economy or fixing health care, the equivalent to cutting your home expenses by not having car insurance or by cutting on your kids education, You may save money in the short run but it will cost you in the end. (Like it did)
Adopting the GOP budget would be like ordering the titanic to go back and hit the iceberg again.
Here are the details of the GOP budget
Deregulate, deregularization, more deregularization.
Live big business and economic institutions free to do as they will. the effect will tricle down to the rest of the economy.
Did not work so well, did it?
The second portion of the budget deals with their religious base. We pray.
After such bad decisions it is all we have left.
Forget all the dumb comments.It seems to me that Libs are just angry about being laughed at and are trying turn it around.No more,no less.
What a bunch or maroons! The Dems and the "messiah" are making Bush look like a budgetary genius! Can't wait for 2010!!!
Its a real testimony to the public education system that anyone would think that when your budget gets tight its time to spend more. That mentality is what got people into mortgages that they could not possible afford that was handed to them by the Federal Government (IE are friends Sally and Freddie). So what is Obamas solution to are troubles? Oh my who would have guessed from a Dem more spending and bigger taxes! I'm so shocked. Dont call a huge expansion of government and special interest group (IE unions, teachers and trial lawyers) earmarks a stimulus package or a balanced budget. This man will not be happy untill he has destroyed the prosperity of this Great Country.