The Upcoming Republican Defeat

[TRFrance]

Originally Posted by Rico

You will all be glad to know that Senator Kennedy has been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. Happy now?

Not cool, Rico.

Nobody here would be happy about that.

[Rico]

Originally Posted by Ferd

sigh. why do I have to contend repeatedly with mythical falsehoods?

Regan suffered from a democrat controlled congress. those idiots would not curb spending.

Reagan's economic policy cut taxes which increased revenue by huge amounts.

CONGRESS CONTROLS SPENDING. (which is why the current crop of republicans are about to get tossed out of congress.)

Yeah, but isn't it the President who submits the budgets to Congress for approval? It's the fault of Congress for passing the budgets the President sends to them?

[Rico]

Originally Posted by TRFrance

Not cool, Rico.

Nobody here would be happy about that.

That was my way of letting people know their timing about joking around about Senator Kennedy's death wasn't a good idea. I think I got my point across, yes?

[Ferd]

Originally Posted by Rico

Yeah, but isn't is the President who submits the budgets to Congress for approval? It's the fault of Congress for passing the budgets the President sends to them?

Rico Presidential submission of budget is kind of a misnomer.

Yes the current tradition is for Presidents to submit budgets. However, budgets do not get an up or down vote. they get re-worked....bigtime.

Presidents generally submit guidelines that they like and congress then goes about the business of fleshing it out as they see fit.

BUT at the same time, a president can submit a budget with 50% tax reduction and congress and pass/send him a budget with a 99% tax increase.

spending is the same. they have to work together to some degree, because a president can veto a budget if he wants to.

In the case of Reagan, what he asked for was far from what he got on spending.... but it was the compromise he was forced to accept to get dems to agree with tax cutting and standing up to the USSR.

[DividedThigh]

dont kid yourself rico, i dont beleive that , neither do any of mine, we are conservative, dt

[DividedThigh]

isnt that info in civics 101, oh i must have missed that, lol, dt

[Neck]

Both parties are a mess.

[Ferd]

Originally Posted by TRFrance

Not cool, Rico.

Nobody here would be happy about that.

in fairness to Rico, he was responding to a crass comment I made.

i was kidding of course....

[Ferd]

Originally Posted by DividedThigh

isnt that info in civics 101, oh i must have missed that, lol, dt

Dude, sometimes I think I am out here by myself....

I still remember the line "The House of Representatives control the purse strings"

Doesnt anyone else remember that???

[Ferd]

Originally Posted by Neckstadt

Both parties are a mess.

yea, dems are acting like dems and republicans are acting like dems..

it is a sad and tragic world we live in.