GOP Predicts Doomsday if Obama Budget Passed

[dtotire]

Source: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

GOP Predicts Doomsday if Obama Budget Passed

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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: March 22, 2009

Filed at 5:20 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congressional Republicans on Sunday predicted a doomsday scenario of crushing debt and eventual federal bankruptcy if President Barack Obama's massive spending blueprint wins passage.

But a White House adviser dismissed the negative assessments, saying she is ''incredibly confident'' that the president's policies will ''do the job'' for the economy.

White House Council of Economic Advisers chairwoman Christina Romer insisted that the nation's flailing economy will be rebounding by 2010.

Administration officials -- and the president himself -- have taken a cheerier tone despite economic indicators that are anything but positive.

''I have every expectation, as do private forecasters, that we will bottom out this year and actually be growing again by the end of the year,'' Romer said.

Senate Republicans predicted $20 trillion annual deficits and a weakened dollar if Obama and his Democratic allies get their proposed $3.6 trillion budget plan passed.

''The practical implications of this is bankruptcy for the United States,'' said Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H. ''There's no other way around it. If we maintain the proposals which are in this budget over the 10-year period that this budget covers, this country will go bankrupt. People will not buy our debt; our dollar will become devalued.''



http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/03/22/washington/AP-Obama-Economy.html

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/03/22/washington/AP-Obama-Economy.html

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They were saying the same things in 1993 when Clinton proposed his budget. It would send the country into a prolonged recession. See what happened after it was passed.

[babylonsister]

1. Remind me again how they howled about idiot son's budget?

And that wasn't even including the costs of the illegal occupation. They need a big glass of stfu.

[SpiralHawk]

3. Special delivery for the Republicon Homelander Chickenhawk Fail Freaks

Americans know that xCommander AWOL Bush, xVP Dickie 'Five-Military Deferments' Cheney, Rush 'Ass-pimple-Deferment' Limbaugh, and Junior Chickenhawks Beck, Hannity, O'Reilly,Lott, DeLay, Boehner, and all the other draft-dodging war-mongering republicons, will respect the STFU message coming from G.I. Joe.

[zbdent]

6. weren't they screaming that Obama made the debt several times greater than before

but not mentioning that the only reason that was so was because, for the first time in a long time, if not ever, he included the military $$$?

[babylonsister]

8. Yes because, as usual, they either weren't paying attention,

or their lack of comprehension skills reared its ugly head again.

[Lorien]

14. Really. Where were these "fiscal conservatives" over the past eight years?

They were all spending and borrowing taxpayer dollars like drunken sailors on crack!

[maxrandb]

70. Hey!

As a Sailor, I resemble that remark...and furthermore, I don't like your altitude!

I guess "drunk Sailors" are the only minority group left we can make fun of. :toast:

But seriously...I guess we may have to do something like change the tax rate on the top 5%...Heaven's to Murgatroid! That's Soclialism.

:sarcasm:

[No Elephants]

69. From 2000 to 2006, they weren't only idiot son's budgets, but Pubs don't want anyone to

remember that.

In 2006, with a Democrats in control of Congress and idiot's son's term about to expire, with no chance for re-election, they did start gradually bashing him---by calling him a liberal and not a "true" Republican, LOL. but, that was just to try to disassociate Republians from the ungodly mess that the Republicans had created before they had to run again.

[annabanana]

2. Why is this news?

seriously... Under what circumstances can you imagine this to NOT be the case?

[w4rma]

5. Yup. This isn't news. The GOP has jumped the shark. According to them everything Democrats do will

cause "Doomsday".

[SharonAnn]

7. They predicted doomsday withe the Clinton 1993 budget. But we got prosperity and peace.

[lolly]

12. Yes--I double-checked the timeline

When I first saw the headline, I wondered if someone had found and re-posted something from 1993.

Of course, things are worse this time around, if only because Bush II f****d things up even worse than his poppy.

[Deja Q]

4. For 8 years these pigporkers spent and tax cut with glee.

Never mind Reagan and Bush I.

They are so full of pig shit.

[hfojvt]

9. let's allay their deficit concerns

by increasing taxes on the top 5% now instead of in 2011.

[Amonester]

24. yes, and by "bringing ALL the boys 'n girls back home" NOW

from ALL the useless military bases in the forever money-pit of the republicon EMPIRE

who needs them when spy-satelites can photograph dimes on any sidewalk anywhere around the world?

war-profiteers of the republic party do (and a few dems)

[christx30]

10. Because things are going so well now, right? n/t

[bluestateguy]

11. Why do we need to hear from these people? They lost, we won.

They are kindly, nicely, politely asked to go away.

[beaudogjake]

13. Again the same old GOP message of "FEAR"

You know, the same guys that brought you:

Weapons of mass destruction!
Deregulation of everything or the world will explode!
They want to burn your bibles!
Health insurance companies are wonderful.
FEAR! FEAR! FEAR! it's all they have!

Hope vs Fear Same old fight just a different day!
:spank:

[sendero]

15. We're going to have doomsday..

... no matter what, thanks to the deregulation and inattention of Clinton and mostly Bush.

But we're going to have a WORSE doomsday if we let the bankers DRAIN THE TREASURY to try to fix the BLACK HOLE that is their CDS problem.

And Geithner and Summers and even Obama seem to be just fine with that, but I am NOT.

[certainot]

16. GOP has no credibility on anything and the only thing that keeps them

in the mix is their talk radio monopoly laundering and prechewing their talking points for a corporate media whose ownership wants tax breaks and deregulation as much as the heritage foundation and club for growth.

as long as the GOP has those 1000 radio stations with all that coordinated UNCONTESTED repetition to set the tone in the rest of the media the obama admin will have to work twice as hard for everything.

and a lot of frightened dems will fall into the trap

[mvd]

17. We had 8 years of doomsday

Anything opposite of what the Repukes want is how we should go.

[Grinchie]

18. No doubt that tough times ahead, but thats a good thing

This whole scenario was 30 years in the making, and Reagan was the beginning.

The world will not end, people will coninue to get by.
The ones that want to seize or retain power will want to incite insurrection as if they have some sort of magical answer to fix it all.

They will try, and release all of the pent up anger held within the population when they realize that rules and regulation mean nothing if a wander individual can just pull out a gun and take what he wants. When that stuff starts to occur, the state will react to keep the peace and anarchy ensues.

The biggest problem is that people demand immediate satisfaction, and don't see any benefit in long term planning, or taking care of the whole system instead of their own tiny square meter of space they occupy.

If our body behaved like people, we would disintegrate after being consumed by cancerous cells doing their own thing. We still don't know why the trillions of cells in our body work together as a team, but we ignore the fact that they do, and are resonably successful at it.

[santamargarita]

19. Congressional Republicans account for nothing - you lost!

GOP is nothing but a goddamn freak show!

[Odin2005]

20. Republican EPIC FAIL!!!

They weren't whining when Bush drove us deeper into debt. Bunch of hypocrites.

[groundloop]

21. Actually they're quite correct

It will be doomsday..... for the rightwinguts. Americans will see that life is far better when people have jobs, affordable health care, and clean energy. The right wing agenda will be nothing but a bad memory. That pretty much sounds like doomsday for them.

[and-justice-for-all]

22. The GOP never disappoints, do they??

back to the good ol' fear mongering scheme again.. those idiots never said a word. other than 'Yes, Mr. President, what ever you want Mr. President' when it came to Shrub Co.

The GOP can fuck off...They make me sick.

[greiner3]

23. "eventual federal bankruptcy;"

This must be the info that female nutjob got her material for that terrible video on another post.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x287525

Warning!!!

Watch it only if you have a spare 6 minutes left in this life. You won't get it back.

[DallasNE]

25. Sen. Gregg Answers Question Not Asked

If we maintain the proposals which are in this budget over the 10-year period that this budget covers, this country will go bankrupt.

The problem with Gregg's comment is that nobody is proposing "we maintain" the current budget out over the next 10 years. Obama has consistently said that the goal will be to cut this years deficit in half by the end of his first term. That is the yardstick.

The other Republicans used the exact same tactic as Gregg. They answered a question not asked. They look downright stupid when they screech about $20 trillion annual deficits. Presidents named Bush have racked up over 50% of the deficits of this nation since its founding. Republicans hardly have any room to talk on fiscal matters.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

26. Doomsday for the GreedyOldPigs maybe

nt

[Demeter]

27. Doomsday Indeed-- For the GOP

Miserable failures that they are.

[LynnTheDem]

28. AGAIN???!

Don't the republics EVER get tired of spewing the same doomsday shit over & over & over again???!!

Every single time a Dem has had to come in and clean up the messes made by republics, the republics scream "DOOMSDAY!!1!".

Dear republics, STFU already, you idiots.

[NorthCarolina]

29. Is this the "Economy Will Improve IN SPITE of Obama" crowd? n/t

[BumRushDaShow]

30. Dear repukes,

STFU.

Sincerely,

The winners.

[Downwinder]

31. I thought the reich wing wanted to embrace doomsday.

Now they are bitching and moaning. Hay, make up your minds.

[krispos42]

32. So when somebody is consistantly wrong in their predictions and actions...

...and they predict that your proposed course of action will lead to failure, that sounds like a full-throttle endorsement to me!



"High taxes crush the economy" is a faith-based political belief with no basis in reality. But it pays well.

[TankLV]

33. Gee - didn't they say the same thing about Clinton's budget?!!!

Let's see - the repukes have been consistently wrong about everything for tha past twent to forty years, and we should believe them now, why, exactly?

[CANDO]

34. Sounds sooo... 1993ish.

They claimed the same thing for Clinton's budget. They are clearly stuck on stupid.

[DinahMoeHum]

35. Neah neah-neah neah neah. . .booga booga booga.

Same old tired act from the GOP.

:evilfrown:

[indypaul]

36. And the GOP still believes NO is a policy. n/t

[Overseas]

37. Yes, the Republican Right Wing Smear Machine is out in force

Just heard peachy Romney smearing our President on Larry King. They are making best use of the airwaves while their team retains domination of broadcast media. Slimeballs pitched from every direction after taking the office from a prior administration that had engendered a financial avalanche with its war profiteering and human rights nightmares. The President took office after sweetheart bailout deals had already been made. And yet the Republicans smear our President for conditions dumped upon him by their friends and colleagues in the previous Republican administration.

So I can see why President Obama defenders must speak out boldly and often.

President Obama is doing beautifully with the 60 minutes interview. I really appreciate his comments about the Cheney legacy-- wondering just where ex-VP expected the continual engineering of hatred would end. And thus, we see that the previous administration's policies were not only destructive but also unsustainable. Economic development assistance may finally be part of our nation's national security budget. Diplomatic avenues can be very productive. Especially after inheriting such a mess.

And his sincere expression of many of our sentiments when appealing to Wall Street traders to give us a break and stop whining about their bonuses-- in kinder language he suggested they get out of New York and see how the rest of the country is doing right now.

I admire President Obama very much.

So it is very taxing to be subjected to such an imbalance in reporting. Feels like 70/30 negative vs positive news bites. The airwaves are still too full of blowhard losers. Bloviating on fixing the nation that their boy drove into the ditch. Shameless hussies, those Republicans. Even with a Democratic administration, our broadcast media are dominated by right wingers. So the same folks who crashed the nation are given air time to tell us what President Obama is doing wrong.

So I can now much more thoroughly appreciate the purpose of those who ardently praise and defend our president at every opportunity. The Republicans are hoping to chatter enough so that we will forget what actually happened in our broadband waves of new news. So counter-chatter is productive. We need that. President Obama needs that.

It was good to have such an interesting segment on 60 Minutes. It was really wonderful.

[Doctor Cynic]

38. I'll make sure to invest in stocks which produce tinfoil hats.

[villager]

39. GOP predicts doomsday if Obama budget passed

Source: AP

GOP predicts doomsday if Obama budget passed


By PHILIP ELLIOTT

WASHINGTON – Congressional Republicans on Sunday predicted a doomsday scenario of crushing debt and eventual federal bankruptcy if President Barack Obama's massive spending blueprint wins passage.

But a White House adviser dismissed the negative assessments, saying she is "incredibly confident" that the president's policies will "do the job" for the economy. In a TV interview, Obama himself laughed when discussing the dire state of parts of the economy — and ascribed his laughter to "gallows humor."

White House Council of Economic Advisers chairwoman Christina Romer insisted that the nation's flailing economy will be rebounding by 2010. Administration officials — and the president himself — have taken a cheerier tone despite economic indicators that are anything but positive.

"I have every expectation, as do private forecasters, that we will bottom out this year and actually be growing again by the end of the year," Romer said.

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Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090322/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_economy

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doomsday for rightwing lunatics?

[DJ13]

40. Where was the MSM's concern when Dems were pissed at W's spending?

Typical of our right wing "news" to suddenly get religion when a Dem is President.

[iamthebandfanman]

53. we forgot to call it a 'doomsday'

and we also forgot to tell everyone that the world was coming to an end....


republicans always use fear.
ALWAYS.

they have nothing else.

[Quiz Master]

55. Well, they have another tool as well...

Lies.

[Skittles]

41. didn't they predict the same for Clinton's budget?

[mth44sc]

42. It will be doomsday

for the GOP...

[Optical.Catalyst]

60. This is an obvious sign that the Republicans have got nothing

They have nothing constructive to offer, so they only offer doomsday predictions if the Democrats are successful.

The Republican Party is in its death throes. We need to eliminate them as a force in Washington as soon as possible.

[MadMaddie]

43. Yawn

This from the destroy everything in their path Republicans and a useless MSM. They participated in helping create the problem and now all they can do is immulate chicken little "The sky is falling, The sky is falling"!

[rocktivity]

44. Candidate for this year's "You Call This NEWS?" award

Of course any improvement of the economy would be a doomsday scenario--FOR THEM!!!

:rofl:
rocktivity

[NRaleighLiberal]

45. Doomsday for the GOP, since they will be lost in the wilderness for many more years.

[Gman]

46. Dupe

[WatchWhatISay]

47. It's OK, they predicted the same thing when Clinton took office

It's what they do.

[sufrommich]

64. Yep, they are masters at shrill hysteria. nt

[bikebloke]

48. And the past 8 years wasn't doom?

Look what was wrought from all they ushered in. Of course, now a lot of that money isn't filling their pockets.

[elocs]

49. Are they specifically predicting Doomsday in the next year though?

I see it says "eventual federal bankruptcy", so that could be years, but then they could claim it was just around the corner.

[olddad56]

50. I predict Doomsday if Bush is elected in 2000 and again in 2004...

Oh, we wasn't actaully elected, okay, I predict Doomsday becuase of Bush anyway.

[Jakes Progress]

51. And you were right.

We have doomsday. bush gave it to us. Our duly elected president is just trying to fix the crap that the ones who are now crying foul gave us.

[Catch22Dem]

52. How 1993 of them

:eyes:

[PatrynXX]

54. Asleep at the switch

Think they musta been asleep at the switch and suddenly woke up and said eek dooom... about 3 years after doom happened.

[POAS]

56. Recycling 1993 talking points...

Just in time for Earth Day.

[and-justice-for-all]

57. good ol' down home fear mongering...repukes can piss off..nt

[radfringe]

58. NOPers are at it again

Are they flying a banner that says "NO WE CAN'T!"?

[truthisfreedom]

59. code words for "GOP predict doomsday for GOP if Obama's stimulus works"

That is all.

[firefox28]

61. Doomsday was also fostered

in the wake of 9-11. So military spending is less a threat to the deficit that spending on education?

Alas, republicans have towed great examples why the don't need to spend on education--Limbaugh and the Palin household.

[northernlights]

62. bad news for the NOPers

Pundits on stephanopoulos yesterday said that the "new dems" intend to vote for Obama's budget with minimal changes or fuss. It is a budget, btw, the Krugman loves.

[droidamus2]

63. They are right...

The Republicans are right if President Obama's budget passes and the economy picks up it is definitely doomsday for the Republican party. The Republicans are so tying themselves to President Obama failing in a big way that if it doesn't happen they will become even more marginalized than they already are.

[Belial]

65. I wish it was.. but its not going to work.. sigh

[Vinca]

66. You almost feel sorry for the GOP. Even if the worst case scenario happened -

Obama failed, the country tanked completely - they would be laughingstocks when they present Palin as their candidate in 2012. Who else have they got? Bobby the Page?:rofl:

[14thColony]

67. More accurate headline would be

"GOP desperately hopes, prays for doomsday if Obama budget passed."

[No Elephants]

68. In 1979, I predicted dire things about the economy, wars, civil liberties, human

decency, deceit, etc. if Republicans or appeasers of Republicans got control. Turns out, I was right.

Unfortunately, once that happened, we were screwn. And Obama is trying to fix some of that mess.

So the Evil Empire predicts doomsay, much like Bush and Cheney would do with the WOT during election season. Instead of Osama, it's now a budget that will destroy the world.

Word to the Rethugs: Get a new act. And stick a fork in this one.

[damntexdem]

71. Doomsday for the GOP.

And the sooner, the better.

[apnu]

72. $20 trillion dollar deficitss ANNUALLY?

:wtf:

[Generator]

73. Been there, done that

Called the Bush Admin, lost wtc, lost much of NOLA, lost my heart, lost my faith in country. Country now having a Depression surge. Not due to Obama, assholes.