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Ah, but it's good theatre. How better to grasp the attention of the nation, solidify the respective constituencies, and impress upon everyone the importance of our fearless leaders than to push our economy to the brink of ruination only to "save" it in the eleventh hour. How exiting. It's better than one of those screaming reality shows. Everyone can be certain the problem lies with the opposition, and the divisiveness that gains our attention can continue in a predictable and manipulative manner. We love the insanity and self deprecation don't we. Ahhhh, the pain is good.

I say go on vacation please, let the automatic cuts kick in, If Obama and the Dems offered some cuts we wouldnt be talking about it.

brotherkenny - from the Republicans standpoint there really is no theatre involved. The Republicans agreed to the sequester, which was proposed by Obama. They have proposed changes to the cuts, but all that the Democrats have proposed is to make cuts that are one-tenth the size agreed to. Since many of us feel that cuts of this size must be made, and since both parties agreed to that, we should be debating where to cut - not changing the size of the cuts.

I say lets start cutting pay and benefits for the lawmakers.

Let the automatic cuts happen. It's the ONLY way that either party will be serious about our deficit problem. According to the CBO, the sequestration and Tax increase for EVERYONE would have helped our economy in the long run. They blew it then by not raising taxes on everyone becasue they knew it would cost votes. Now is their chance to get it half right. Cut the spending across the board like is planned. At least they will get it half right. BOth parties should be happy then. They can sit there and act like children and blame the other party for everything.

Since there is no budget why are these cuts? I kinda think of them as spending increase from the last agreed up Budget by the Senae and the House and signed by a sitting President, the 2008 Federal Budget!

This tells the story, why Bush appeared so bad at the end of his term. Don’t just skim over this, it’s not very long, read it slowly and let it sink in. If in doubt, check it out!!! The day the democrats took over was not January 22nd 2009, it was actually January 3rd 2007 the day the Democrats took over the House of Representatives and the Senate, at the very start of the 110th Congress. The Democrat Party controlled a majority in both chambers for the first time since the end of the 103rd Congress in 1995. For those who are listening to the liberals propagating the fallacy that everything is "Bush's Fault", think about this: January 3rd, 2007 was the day the Democrats took over the Senate and the Congress. At the time: The DOW Jones closed at 12,621.77 The GDP for the previous quarter was 3.5% The Unemployment rate was 4.6% George Bush's Economic policies SET A RECORD of 52 STRAIGHT MONTHS of JOB GROWTH Remember the day...January 3rd, 2007 was the day that Barney Frank took over the House Financial Services Committee and Chris Dodd took over the Senate Banking Committee. The economic meltdown that happened 15 months later was in what part of the economy? BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES! Unemployment... to this CRISIS by (among MANY other things) dumping 5-6 TRILLION Dollars of toxic loans on the economy from YOUR Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac FIASCOES!

Bush asked Congress 17 TIMES to stop Fannie & Freddie - starting in 2001 because it was financially risky for the US economy. And who took the THIRD highest pay-off from Fannie Mae AND Freddie Mac? OBAMA And who fought against reform of Fannie and Freddie? OBAMA and the Democrat Congress So when someone tries to blame Bush.. REMEMBER JANUARY 3rd, 2007.... THE DAY THE DEMOCRATS TOOK OVER!" Budgets do not come from the White House. They come from Congress and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is the Democrat Party. Furthermore, the Democrats controlled the budget process for 2008 & 2009 as well as 2010 &2011. In that first year, they had to contend with George Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending, when Bush somewhat belatedly got tough on spending increases. For 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid bypassed George Bush entirely, passing continuing resolutions to keep government running until Barack Obama could take office. At that time, they passed a massive omnibus spending bill to complete the 2009 budgets. And where was Barack Obama during this time? He was a member of that very Congress that passed all of these massive spending bills, and he signed the omnibus bill as President to complete 2009. If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the 2007 deficit, the last of the Republican budgets. That deficit was the lowest in five years, and the fourth straight decline in deficit spending. After that, Democrats in Congress took control of spending, and that includes Barack Obama, who voted for the budgets. If Obama inherited anything, he inherited it from himself. In a nutshell, what Obama is saying is I inherited a deficit that I voted for and then I voted to expand that deficit four-fold since January 20th.

Serious men and woman need lots of time to think these things through. Lots of time. And surely when they come back from their vacation, they will be ready to...take another vacation to think it through some more! You are allowed to have a laugh here at this point, folks.

Serious men and woman need lots of time to think these things through. Lots of time.*** And for many gradeschool children recess is the favorite time of the school day. For kids who've shirked their lessons that's definitely the case. But there'll be no escaping the lessons they'll be forced to learn from the impending consequences of their indifference to what the majority in this country already know.