GOP Rebellion Over Tax Cuts....Threatens to Derail Efforts to Adopt Budget

[truthpusher]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/15/politics/15budget.html?

March 15, 2005
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G.O.P. Rebellion Over Tax Cuts and Spending Threatens to Derail Efforts to Adopt Budget
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By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
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ASHINGTON, March 14 - As Congress debates President Bush's $2.57 trillion budget for 2006, House and Senate Republican leaders are facing a potential revolt among their own members, with pressure coming from both the center and the right.

In the Senate, where debate over the budget began on Monday, moderates are pressing to reinstate language opposed by the leadership and the White House that would make it more difficult for Congress to extend President Bush's tax cuts; they want to require that the cuts, as well as any spending on new programs, be offset with savings in other areas. Last year, the fight over these "pay as you go" rules prevented Congress from adopting a budget, a fate the Republican leadership hopes to avoid this year.

In the House, meanwhile, an alliance of Republican conservatives and moderates is also pressing for new rules, in this case to make it harder for lawmakers to approve spending that exceeds the limits set by the budget. The House Republican leader, Representative Tom DeLay of Texas, is fighting the changes, but on Monday evening, Representative Roy Blunt of Missouri, the Republican whip, was trying to negotiate a compromise before lawmakers took up the budget on Wednesday.

The Republican disputes could have far-reaching political effects if they derail adoption of a budget. Republicans have said for decades that they could tamp down the growth in spending, if only they could get Democrats out of the way. As spending and the federal deficit continued to rise, that promise became a theme of last year's election campaign.

complete story: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/15/politics/15budget.html?

[dbeach]

1. 5 bush tax cuts for the rich....

which have permantly damaged the economy and social safety net and cheney tells Paul O' Neil "Its our due"{before tax cut number 4}

bushfraud shoots very high for these tax cuts and dems cave-in..cuz repukes have glorified tax cuts..
how many tax cuts can happen during the bush oil wars??

"tlaw.com/washington.jsp?WebID=GL1999-0028&D=200445
On October 22, 2004, President Bush signed H. R. 4250. This bill includes an approximately $140 billion corporate tax cut package

Editor's Note: The Jobs Act is the fifth tax reduction bill of the Bush administration. Corporate taxes have now been reduced. Personal income taxes have been reduced. Estate taxes have been reduced. There now are major federal deficits."

[rodeodance]

2. I hope the bickering amongst the Repugs gets worse. Love it.

[Straight Shooter]

3. Naturally the hogs are going to squeal when you take their excess away.

It doesn't matter how fat he gets, a hog begins to believe he has the right to be a glutton. Once you give extra to a hog, that's it. He thinks he's entitled to it, that it isn't "extra" anymore. So when you try to take away the "extra," the hog thinks he's being deprived and squeals and grunts and raises hell.

[Erika]

4. Tom Delay

Hasn't he been thrown out for ethics violations yet?

[undergroundpanther]

5. Time to turn those hogs

Into ham sandwiches, bacon and pepperoni for the people.Certainly the people have fattened them very much with thier happiness and hopes,trust and suffering..Time to make the"investment" pay up. No place but America can a hog live forever in such an opulent pen when the farmer is starving..