Bush, Obama, McConnell, Boehner... Aren't We Already In Austerity Spending ???

[WillyT]

And yeah... I know it could be much worse...

[DCKit]

1. Six months to go, they're gonna pull that out at the last minute.

The Republican'ts cant change course now, so they've got to keep on with the deficit spending.... it's going to suck when Obamacorp reveals their actual spending in August.

How are we doing in the state races? I want better people here in DC.

[SidDithers]

2. More "not a dimes worth of difference" nonsense...nt

Sid

[MannyGoldstein]

4. Are you saying that all four of 'em

are not in favor of brutal, destructive austerity against the 99%?

[SidDithers]

7. Wait, is this third-way Manny or third-party Manny asking the question?...nt

Sid

[MannyGoldstein]

12. Evading the question nt

[SidDithers]

13. Now you want to have substantive discussion?...

What happened to Third-party Manny / Third-way Manny?

Sid

[MannyGoldstein]

14. Still evading the question

And I think you're wrong - please supply an example.

[SidDithers]

15. Edited previous post while you were replying. Sorry 'bout that...

Not interested in the least in having any sort of discussion with you, Manny. Your antics over the years here firmly put you in the "not to be taken seriously" category.

22% Social Security cuts? Preference for McCain over Obama. Now the Third-party Manny schtick. Your "opinions" are entertaining, Manny, by not based in the world where the rest of us live.

Sid

[MannyGoldstein]

16. Why don't you pick one, and we can discuss?

"22% Social Security cuts, Preference for McCain over Obama. Now the Third-party Manny schtick."

[WillyT]

5. There's A Democratic President, And A Democratic Senate...

And...as a person who is watching the Federal Extension of Unemployment benefits disappear...

Every goddamned day...

The notes that come with their final forms are quite... poignant.

And I do not think they give a damn about EITHER Party.

[Drunken Irishman]

9. Do you know how government works?

[dionysus]

6. you better believe it!

[MannyGoldstein]

3. Wait 'till the cuts scheduled for January

CBO says it'll throw us back into recession.

Mmmm... Yummy peas...

[applegrove]

8. Krugman pointed that out today.

[SunsetDreams]

10. Pointed it out about Obama? I'm so confused on this.

According to an OP-ed on 05/31 Krugman had this to say.

In fairness to Britain’s conservatives, they aren’t quite as crude as their American counterparts. They don’t rail against the evils of deficits in one breath, then demand huge tax cuts for the wealthy in the next (although the Cameron government has, in fact, significantly cut the top tax rate). And, in general, they seem less determined than America’s right to aid the rich and punish the poor. Still, the direction of policy is the same — and so is the fundamental insincerity of the calls for austerity.

The big question here is whether the evident failure of austerity to produce an economic recovery will lead to a “Plan B.” Maybe. But my guess is that even if such a plan is announced, it won’t amount to much. For economic recovery was never the point; the drive for austerity was about using the crisis, not solving it. And it still is.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/opinion/krugman-the-austerity-agenda.html

It seems that he is talking about Republicans not Obama. The OP included Obama.

[applegrove]

17. Ponted out that we had already tried the austerity.

[SunsetDreams]

11. President Obama, Bill Clinton Stump on ‘Growth’ vs. ‘Austerity’ Agenda

President Obama and former President Bill Clinton tonight pitched a coordinated message on jobs and the economy that appeared designed to confront an electoral landscape unsettled by Friday’s dismal jobs report and an expected Republican victory in Wisconsin’s gubernatorial recall.

Sharing the stage at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Manhattan, presidents 42 and 44 offered a robust defense of Obama’s handling of the economy and vision for the future, asserting more forcefully than they’ve done elsewhere in recent weeks that more short-term government spending is needed to boost hiring while insisting Republicans have been blockading the effort all along.

“If you do not have economic growth, no amount of austerity will balance the budget because you will always have revenues go down more than you can possibly cut spending,” Clinton told the crowd of Republican budget plans.

"So what [Obama] did was to say growth today, restraint in a big way tomorrow. … Growth and jobs today, build the economy, then take the burden of the debt off our children’s future and avoid the exploding interest rates and declining living standards that it would impose on their future.”

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/06/president-obama-bill-clinton-stump-on-growth-vs-austerity-agenda/