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Thursday, March 26, 2009
Boomer with Attitude / News The GOP's hilarious new 'budget'
Posted By John Grooms on Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:16 PM
Congressional Republicans, who have been busy responding to charges that they're little more these days than the "Party of No," held a press conference today in which they promised to release their alternative budget (alternative to Pres. Obama's). The press conference turned into an unintentional comedy act, with one reporter after another asking spokesman/House minority leader Rep. John Boehner for actual details.
You see, the GOP managed to show up at their big, previously hyped press conference without any real budget recommendations, just a list of budget "goals." OK, actually, there was one specific proposal, and you can probably guess what it was. Think: Republicans, budget proposal ... yes, you guessed it! A humongous tax cut for the wealthy! Also, some wording in the info-packet-that-was-supposed-to-be-a-budget reveals that the GOP has no plans whatever for dealing with global warming — although they are still in favor of drilling for oil in the Alaskan wilderness and the continental shelf.
At this point, Congressional Republicans seem like something out of a sci-fi show — maybe a tribe that got lost in the past, and now they're attempting in vain, but comically, to find their way back to the present.
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