Tag: budget

It’s official – Bush and Cheney are skipping the convention due to Gustav. Schwarzenegger is also canceling now due to a budget stand off in his state.

McCain has his economic plan: When Senator John McCain was asked here this afternoon how he plans to balance the budget, he said that he hoped to do so by stimulating economic growth – and approvingly cited the example of President Ronald Reagan As The Huffington Post points out, and anyone over the age of […]

He says they aren’t making “significant progress”: Iraqi leaders have failed to take advantage of a reduction in violence to make adequate progress toward resolving their political differences, Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said Thursday. Petraeus, who is preparing to testify to Congress next month on the Iraq war, said […]

This time it’s the elections law: Iraq’s presidential council rejected a measure Wednesday setting up provincial elections, sending it back to parliament in the latest setback to U.S.-backed national reconciliation efforts. The three-member panel, however, approved the 2008 budget and another law that provides limited amnesty to detainees in Iraqi custody. Those laws will take […]

The surge was supposed to give the Iraqi government “breathing room” so they could get the government functioning. Well it looks like that is getting ready to take a serious blow: The speaker of Iraq’s fragmented parliament threatened Tuesday to disband the legislature, saying it is so riddled with distrust it appears unable to adopt […]

Yet his new budget is full of them. He said in his state of the union he would direct government agencies to ignore any earmarks, so does that mean that they ignore his? Or is this another way of him trying to rewrite the Constitution?

Well it only includes “part” of the funding for Iraq and Afghanistan. That means these outrageous figures we have heard of $3.1 trillion and $400 billion deficit – well those numbers will actually be much higher. Way to spin it there Bushy!

After seven years, now he decides he wants to save money: President Bush’s 2009 budget will virtually freeze most domestic programs and seek nearly $200 billion in savings from federal health care programs, a senior administration official said Thursday. I know where we could save a lot of money. Four simple letters -I.R.A.Q.

Funny how they were so against ethics reform a few months ago, but now they want earmark reform. Yes we do need it, but I can’t help think that this is an election year ploy, especially when they are issuing this statement from a lobbyist funded retreat. They also had no problems with earmarks a […]

That seems to be what is being said by Bush’s latest budget cuts: The Bush administration will cut counterterrorism money for police, firefighters and rescue departments next year, but not by as much as it originally proposed. Next month the White House will request $2.2 billion to help states and cities protect against terrorist attacks […]