From the Office of the Speaker of the US House of Representatives

[ELVIS]

Ahh no. If anyone is playing their constituents like a fiddle, it is the Right-Wing Fascist Retardlicans.

Obama would have been able to actually accomplish more to help America, but certain parties (like the Retardlicans) want to destroy America, so he has not been able to accomplish as much as he had hoped due to the Ignorant Ones' interference.

That's totally idiotic...

Even the former Obama supporters will tell you that...

[BigBadBrian]

I wouldn't hold your breath. Chances are high he'll just copy & paste some figures from somewhere and, as usual, claim them as his own.

No. Unlike you, I always put a link when posting a news story or op-ed. Try to find one thing where I passed someone elses's work as mine. You can't.

Whore, all you do is change the words around a little from the crap you "borrow."

[BigBadBrian]

See Brian? The world is waiting.

How about I post my income tax return and bank statements as well? Then I'll post some pics of your old lady tuning my organ.

[BigBadBrian]

MYTH VS. FACT: The Bipartisan Agreement to Cut Spending to Support Job Creation
Posted by Speaker Boehner Press Office on April 13, 2011
MYTH: "Most of the cuts in the agreement aren't real cuts. Many are cuts that were already scheduled to happen, and were proposed in the president's budget."

The spending cuts in the legislation are real cuts that help to clear a path for Chairman Paul Ryan’s landmark Path to Prosperity budget. The agreement includes a gross spending cut of nearly $45 billion -- a net spending cut of nearly $40 billion, as a result of the $5 billion increase for the Defense Department that Speaker Boehner fought for and won. Democrats accurately note that some of the spending cuts in the agreement were proposed in the president’s budget, but disingenuously fail to note that many of those cuts were used in the president’s budget to offset additional or new spending elsewhere. In the context of the agreement, those cuts are now real cuts – chopping billions of dollars off the baseline, rather than being used to offset other Washington spending sought by the administration. As Chairman Ryan said Tuesday, the agreement "[secures] tens of billions of dollars in spending cuts, forcing the President and his party’s leaders to retreat from their reckless spending spree. The historic spending cut turns the page from Washington’s pervasive culture of spending, sending a welcome signal to job creators and cleaning up the unprecedented budget mess left by the last Congress."

MYTH: "President Obama got most of what he wanted."

The agreement is imperfect, but it’s hardly a “win” for President Obama or the Democratic Party agenda of bigger government and increased spending. As a result of the agreement, the federal government will spend $78.5 billion less than President Obama proposed spending this year. The agreement eliminates one Obamacare program, cuts a second nearly in half, and eliminates four of the Obama Administration’s controversial “czars” – including the president’s health czar charged with overseeing his government takeover of health care, his auto czar responsible for managing the federal government’s takeover of U.S. auto manufacturers, and his climate change czar tasked with implementing the president’s job-crushing national energy tax. The agreement secures Senate votes and debate on de-funding of two presidential priorities – Obamacare and Planned Parenthood – while saving the successful D.C. school choice program Democrats have been trying to eliminate for years.

MYTH: "The cuts in the agreement will have no impact on the long-term trajectory of government spending."

The agreement will chop an estimated $315 billion out of the federal budget over the next 10 years, setting the table for Chairman Paul Ryan's Path to Prosperity budget, which cuts trillions. The notion that cuts in mandatory spending are not "real" cuts is a potentially lethal misconception for conservatives to accept. Dramatic reductions in both discretionary and mandatory (“autopilot”) spending are essential to help reduce uncertainty in our economy and create a better environment for job growth, and the agreement makes historic cuts in both types of spending -- just months after President Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress called for zero cuts and claimed spending cuts would hurt the economy.

MYTH: "The agreement is just more of the same. It doesn't really signal any kind of shift in the direction of our government."

While imperfect, the agreement marks the beginning of a major shift in economic policy – a shift that defined clearly by the GOP budget for which it sets the table, Chairman Ryan’s Path to Prosperity. As late as a few months ago, President Obama was calling for zero spending cuts, clinging to his trademark Keynesian arguments and insisting that spending cuts would hurt the economy. With the agreement, the White House has unceremoniously abandoned that "stimulus" argument. Liberals have slammed President Obama for the agreement, noting it means the White House has, in effect, admitted the "stimulus" spending binge is over. "Princeton University professor Paul Krugman noted that by agreeing to this level of budget cuts, Obama had accepted the premise that the economy has recovered enough to withstand the withdrawal of federal spending. Despite the fragile economic recovery, the economy is still not strong enough, Krugman argued," according to Politico. And it's notable that the agreement includes zero earmarks – a stark contrast to two years ago, when President Obama accommodated a Democratic House and Senate and signed into law a massive omnibus spending bill containing an estimated 9,000 earmarks.

MYTH: "The agreement really only cuts about $14 billion in spending. Most of the cuts are from non-discretionary spending, which doesn't change the baseline."

Discretionary spending cuts account for more than half of the nearly $45 billion in gross spending cuts that are made in the agreement. As previously noted, the agreement will chop an estimated $315 billion out of the federal budget over the next 10 years, setting the table for Chairman Paul Ryan's Path to Prosperity budget, which cuts trillions. The notion that cuts in mandatory spending are not "real" cuts is a potentially lethal misconception for anyone to accept. Dramatic reductions in both discretionary and mandatory (“autopilot”) spending are essential to help reduce uncertainty in our economy and create a better environment for job growth, and the agreement makes historic cuts in both types of spending -- just months after President Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress called for zero cuts and claimed spending cuts would hurt the economy.

MYTH: "The provisions eliminating President Obama's 'czars' for health care, climate change and other topics are meaningless. The administration has already vacated these posts or scheduled them for elimination."

The agreement means these posts won't be coming back -- good news for Americans discomforted by the Obama Administration's agenda of government takeovers and bailouts. And perhaps more importantly, the provisions establish a precedent that Congress can deny the president funding for such positions -- effectively challenging their constitutionality.

MYTH: "The agreement is a win for President Obama because it includes a mix of discretionary spending cuts and mandatory spending cuts, rather than just discretionary spending cuts."

The bill passed by the House in February, H.R. 1, also included mandatory spending cuts. Like H.R. 1, the agreement makes real cuts in discretionary spending and includes no tax increases. After initially opposing any spending cuts, the White House and Congressional Democrats abandoned that position during negotiations and tried to cut their losses by demanding tax increases and trying to prevent virtually any cuts to discretionary spending. Republican negotiators rebuffed this gambit and forced the White House to accept an agreement with a mix of cuts from both discretionary and mandatory spending programs, and zero tax hikes. As noted previously, dramatic reductions in both discretionary and mandatory spending are needed to help reduce uncertainty in our economy and create a better environment for job growth. The agreement makes historic cuts in both types of spending -- just months after President Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress called for zero cuts and claimed spending cuts would hurt the economy.

MYTH: "The agreement just nicks a few programs; it doesn't actually eliminate anything."

The agreement terminates more than 40 ineffective programs at the U.S. Department of Education alone, including Educational Technology State Grants, Even Start, Advanced Credentialing, Mental Health Integration, Exchanges with Historic Whaling Partners, Women’s Educational Equity, Tech-Prep Education State Grants, Smaller Learning Communities, Legal Assistance Loan Repayment Program, Thurgood Marshall Legal Opportunity Scholarships, and B.J. Stupak Olympic Scholarships. For a full list of federal programs that are cut or eliminated by the agreement, go here. The bill also eliminates the ability of students to draw down two Pell Grant awards at the same time, saving an additional $35 billion over the next 10 years.

* UPDATED 4/14/11 - 10:40 AM *

MYTH: “The CBO says this bill only cuts $352 million in spending this year.”

FACT: Despite misleading reports to the contrary, H.R. 1473 cuts nearly $40 billion in spending. This means the federal government will spend $78.5 billion less than what the President requested for 2011. Over ten years, the bill saves taxpayers an estimated $315 billion. The confusion is over the terms used by the CBO – and how they’ve been mangled by liberals determined to keep their spending binge alive. Democrats are spinning a number referred to as budget “outlays” – or how quickly money is spent – to claim the cuts are smaller than they are. But in appropriations bills, Congress determines “budget authority,” or how much to actually put in federal bank accounts. This is the number that matters: the only way an agency can spend money is if Congress fills up its account (provides “budget authority”); here, Congress is taking away tens of billions of dollars. By any reasonable standard, taking money away from someone so they can’t spend it is a cut – in this case, a cut of nearly $40 billion. Read “Budget Confusion” by The Weekly Standard for more

[BigBadBrian]

So in other words, STFU, Brie. :dafinger:

Nope!

Your mama...

[jhale667]

Nope!

Your mama... :

Yours calls me "daddy", likes to be slapped on the ass, and makes me breakfast before she leaves in the AM. She also said "My son's an asshole!" But tell her to stop calling me, willya?

[Guitar Shark]

Dollars to donuts, Brian's health care is paid for by the government.

[Kristy]

Brian should adopt all those "unwanted" fetuses...or is it "feti"?

See that's a good point in that those who cry fowl and murder when it comes to abortion are also the ones turning tail and running when it comes to care of the newborn child. They'll see it as a State matter yet at the same whine against any funding to look after that child's welfare hoping that the adoption system with make it all go away. Personally, being the owner of a womb myself do I ever sit on the fence of feminism when it comes to a woman's choice - in a lot of cases the man has just as much right in the decision as well provided he is around to make it.

What I don't get is why so many of you continue to take his bait like you do. What our dear Brain represents to me is a idiot happy blessed in his perpetual ignorance. It's more than obvious he enjoys letting others think and speak for him only occasionally to stick his fat neck out with catch words like "liberal" and "feeble" as if he invented them. His pathetic life to me is much like the allegorical story of the Buddha who lives most of his life so sheltered that if ever did have to live in the outside world it would probably kill him.

[binnie]

Brian may be many things, but he's not stupid.

Sometimes I think he just enjoys baiting everyone......

[Guitar Shark]

Brian may be many things, but he's not stupid.

Sometimes I think he just enjoys baiting everyone......

I don't think those are mutually exclusive possibilities.

[Dr. Love]

Brian may be many things, but he's not stupid.

Sometimes I think he just enjoys baiting everyone......

Brian is a silly troll. Take into account the scope of what he posts and the blatant contradictions and you are left with one of three choices:

1. He's dumb
2. Oh the ironicy
3. He's trolling

Or, as Bob Saget suggests, a combination of the above.

[BigBadBrian]

Brian is a silly troll..

Yet you KKKristy, lamebone, gutter shark, DumbAsARock, and other intellectually weak liberals can be made to dance any time I pull your strings. At least FORD and knuckleboner actually put forth points I would consider an honest attempt to debate, even if they're usually misguided. Even kkkwame and jhale sprinkle their insults with actual debate once in awhile.

Oh yeah, Doc: remember when you said the Gub'ment did a great job handling things, such as Air Control? Guess you didn't know those boys were asleep when you were coming in for a landing on the Redeye, huh?

[BigBadBrian]

Dollars to donuts, Brian's health care is paid for by the government.

I've got a great healthcare deal in my benefit package at work, I must confess. Thanks for your concern.

BTW dealing with Medicare (along with private insurance) at work as much as I do, it WOULD be a decent (not great... but adequate) thing for the govt to have private insurers model their programs on if they could only find a way to pay for it all without raising everyone's tax rate by 35%. People also forget Medicare recipients pay 20% of everything Medicare covers. That gets expensive for older people.

[Kristy]

Yet you KKKristy...

"KKKristy"? "Gutter Shark"? "DumbAsARock"? Well, no one can debate your intellect simply because many here have passed the third grade years ago. If only we were on your level we might have a chance.

Oh, and I'm no liberal. Now clean up your room before mother comes home.

[Guitar Shark]

Yet you KKKristy, lamebone, gutter shark, DumbAsARock, and other intellectually weak liberals can be made to dance any time I pull your strings. At least FORD and knuckleboner actually put forth points I would consider an honest attempt to debate, even if they're usually misguided. Even kkkwame and jhale sprinkle their insults with actual debate once in awhile.

I love that in the first sentence of this post you admit to trolling, but you then follow it up by complaining that few people take you seriously enough to engage you in "actual debate." Ah, the ironicy.