Bush confident on deal to balance budget

[ckramer]

WASHINGTON - President Bush, seeking the upper hand in his dealings with the Democrats now running Congress, asked lawmakers on Saturday to join him in balancing the budget within five years and cut thousands of pet projects from future spending bills.

"I'm confident that we can find common ground," Bush said in his weekly radio address. "By holding the line on spending and continuing our pro-growth policies, we can balance the budget and address the most urgent needs of our nation."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070106/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush

He's confident Iraq has WMDs too!

[msongs]

1. yep just cut out his war criminals projects, save big bucks AND lives nt

[Demeter]

2. This Ought To Be Humiliating! (For Bush)

The man has NO IDEA what he's in for, and no plans to deal with it.

Forget the sitcoms....politics shall be the national entertainment (as was the previous impeachment)

[BOSSHOG]

3. "Address the most urgent needs?"

- banish gays to second class citizenry via law
- kill doctors who use embryonic stem cells for research
- bring back slavery
- take the vote away from women

Such are the urgent needs of bush's base. He, like them, are idiots.

[antigop]

4. Eliminate Social Security and Medicare -- problem solved

<sarcasm>

[stray cat]

5. but the billions for iraq are not included

i also suspect tax cuts for the wealthy and large corporations are to be protected on the back of the rest of us.

[Kolesar]

6. bush was confident in Sec'y Rumsfeld from about Nov 2 to Nov 7

The world has come to expect that everything that bush says is pure political horsesh-t.

[VegasWolf]

7. Has that fucking smirk been wiped off that chimpanzee's face yet? nt

[teryang]

8. Time for the Chimp to bend over and grab his ankles n/t

[Cha]

9. I'm getting tired of reading

fantasy in the corporatemedia reports. Get a journalist Clue, CMWs!

[spanone]

10. Add HIS war to the budget and get back to me.

[Deja Q]

11. We shall see.

Oh, offshoring hasn't led to much pro-growth in the US. I'm not against it, but I wouldn't cut off my arm to help someone else masturbate easier...


(and don't necessarily read that in the obvious sense... for once a euphemism is based the other way 'round...)

[flaminbats]

12. pro-growth policies?

and I guess Clinton's policies of the 90's were anti-growth? :crazy:

never mind that we're losing thousands of lives and billions of dollars in Iraq. never mind that those who claim to support this war refuse to sacrifice anything of value to win. tax-cuts are always pro-growth...but Social Security and Medicare are only wasteful Congressional "earmarks"!

[mchill]

13. This just plays perfectly into Bush's plan to

get rid of every non-Defense related federal agency, which he has tried to outsource, up until now. Once government employees are gone, then the voids will be filled, later, with his private contractor friends. Goodbye National Park Service, Forest Service, BLM, NOAA, etc. Bye bye.