Democrats Already Laying Out Their Post-Election Tax And Spend Agenda

• October 25, 2008

Rep. Barney Frank (D – Fannie Mae) is promising big new spending from the Democrat-controlled house, and he’s saying that if Republicans don’t like it the Democrats would be more than happy to wait until after they get their super majority.

If Republicans continue to resist, said Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., Democrats are likely to rejoin the issue in January, when they expect party standard bearer Barack Obama to take the oath of office as president.
“There’s no question the House will pass … a much bigger (stimulus plan) than we passed before,” Frank said of a postelection lame duck session. “If enough Republicans in the Senate decide to filibuster it … then we’ll just wait until January.”

So how will Democrats pay for all this new spending? Well there’s Obama’s proposed tax hikes, but Frank is also talking about a 25% reduction in defense spending.
Yes, 1/4 of all defense spending. During war time.

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http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

Maybe it is time to start a conservative movement again. We are marching towards being a communist country.
HG

I will be up to us to hold these anti-freedom liberal’s feet to the fire. We are all that stand between liberty and liberalism.
Hungry Bear

According to Democrats, the government has no more important task than taking from the productive and giving to the indolent.
tothestars2

Though… maybe it’s time to work on Star Wars again!?!?

it’s time to wake up and equip ourselves for modern wars

You win wars with BOOTS ON THE GROUND!
http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

“The Decider” – Not that an Obama administration wouldn’t be a continuation of such liberal concepts, but you’re lying to yourself if you’ve supported any of the past 3 republican presidents and think you’re fighting a war against liberalism.

We’re more along the lines of being CLASSIC liberals.

The so-called “reality based” “liberals” of today’s Democrats are anything but.
Suze

Quick we need to find Barney a lover in the Defense Dept, so he can hook up a fwe sweetheart deals for THEM, now!
Steve

Wasn’t it the Democrats that, a few years ago, were whining that we weren’t spending enough to keep our troops protected with adequate body armor?

And now they want to cut spending?

But they support the troops… when it’s convenient.
The Decider

So how will Democrats pay for all this new spending? Well there’s Obama’s proposed tax hikes, but Frank is also talking about a 25% reduction in defense spending.

Yes, 1/4 of all defense spending. During war time.

Probably cause our current strategy of military spending is retarded and dominated by contractors? Agencies such as the CIA are massively underfunded while traditional areas of the armed forces leech untold amounts of our tax dollars, mostly because of their connections in Washington. We need a massive funding of anti-terror and covert agencies, not a large carrier fleet at the cost of hundreds of billions of dollars. This isn’t the 30′s, the first world is no longer out to get us, it’s time to wake up and equip ourselves for modern wars. If we spent even a fraction of that budget on more appropriate military endeavors (see: armed drones) Bin Laden and most of his leadership would be dead.

Though… maybe it’s time to work on Star Wars again!?!?
charlie

obama and these otehr radiacl liberals do want to tax us to death. they are just evil in many ways. they hate God, they hate life, they hate marriage as on man and one woman, they hate morals, they hate our constitutional freedoms and make a mockery of our history and our american values that are based on God’s values found in his word. obama is just evil and make us by calling us “bitter” and hanging unto “guns and religion”. those word show he hates our constitutional freedoms of religion and to bear arms. stand against this man and his evil agenda. Vote for John McCain
The Decider

I will be up to us to hold these anti-freedom liberal’s feet to the fire. We are all that stand between liberty and liberalism.

Neocon foreign policy (ie. Reagan and both Bushes) borrows heavily from liberalism, specifically Woodrow Wilson. The concept of the US as an “international sheriff” is liberalism, basically the notion that we know what’s best for others. Our attempts to curb new countries from adopting communism is PURE LIBERALISM. If you don’t believe me go ask a poster at Protein Wisdom or some other higher end conservative blog site. This connection has been openly acknowledged by neocon idealogues such as Cheney or Wolfowitz.

Not that an Obama administration wouldn’t be a continuation of such liberal concepts, but you’re lying to yourself if you’ve supported any of the past 3 republican presidents and think you’re fighting a war against liberalism. For more information, see WELFARE FOR WALL STREET.
The Decider

We’re more along the lines of being CLASSIC liberals.

The so-called “reality based” “liberals” of today’s Democrats are anything but.

Not really, classical liberalism has a much stronger tendency towards the ultimate end of individual rights and self government. The Neocon version is much more directed towards directly interfering with other countries, often installing leaders who are friendly to our ideals but run their own countries as a dictatorship or some form of kleptocracy.

The importance of defeating socialism or other ideologies threatening our country (more recently, islamic extremism, which at least makes more sense) is the top priority, not necessarily the actual spread of democracy and self-government. This isn’t to say that they haven’t installed democratic governments (eg. the iron curtain), it just means that’s not the bottom line when it comes to how policy is implemented.

Think about it what you will, but it’s not classical liberalism. Those are the principles of the founding fathers, limited foreign policy involvement with a heavy emphasis on citizen’s individual rights. Both parties have perverted the definition of liberalism

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