Following up on my earlier post, Speaker Boehner was just handed another defeat: In a sign that some freshman Republicans were willing to cut military spending, the House voted 233-198 on Wednesday to cancel an alternate fighter jet engine that the Bush and Obama administrations had tried to kill for the last five years. The […]
A new New York Times/CBS poll has some really interesting numbers when it comes to dealing with the budget. For example; 55% of respondents feel that cutting military spending is the right way to go, including 42% of Republicans, which was the winning cut for the GOP in the poll. That really goes against the […]
This is something I never thought I would see: Senate Republicans said Thursday that they would try to filibuster a massive Pentagon bill that funds the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, an unusual move that several acknowledged was an effort to delay President Obama’s health-care legislation. Late into the night, Democrats emerged from a huddle […]
NOT! Rep. Paul Ryan ended up admitting that the GOP budget will run up the deficit “a lot”. “A lot”. On the day before their budget is to be released, this is the kind of hard hitting numbers we saw last week when the Republicans were supposed to release their budget. I guess the GOP […]
While our economy continues to go down the tubes, the Pentagon wants to keep increasing their funds: Before the presidential election, reports began to circulate that the Pentagon was planning to propose a defense spending increase of roughly $450 billion over five years. That’s in addition to the increases in the base budget already laid […]
New AP-Ipsos poll shows Bush’s approval rating holding steady t 39%. Right now only 21 % strongly approve of his job. The alarming numbers come from the dwindling support in his actual base. Approval Rating Based Upon Group GROUP JANUARY NOW +/- Evangelicals 33 49 -16% Republican Men 57 42 -15% Protestants 36 25 […]