Last November, the Teabaggers won the House for the Republicans, which meant government spending and all post-18th century bureaucracy was gone forever, yay. Except, that big budget deal that saved us all from government shutdown? It’s going to make the government spend more money this year than if spending had just been left alone, according to the Congressional Budget Office. But that’s because of defense spending, which shouldn’t count, as there can never be too much defense spending. Republicans are still on track to erase Washington, D.C. and its suburbs from the map, right?
Brendan Buck, spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), explains on the Speaker’s blog “The effect on outlays (based on how quickly the administration spends money) meanwhile is slowed due to increased and accelerated spending for our men and women in uniform. As the CBO puts it, ‘part of the reason …is that some defense funding was shifted from slower-spending to faster-spending activities.’”
See, “our men and women in uniform” needed very, very new weapons, because they have to face off against the world’s technological behemoth: individuals who live in caves and holes in the ground in third-world countries. Makes sense. [TPM]
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I'm surprised that Boehner hasn't signed the government up for Groupon yet. Think of all the money he could save us.
Think of all the money we could save if we didn’t spend any tax-payers’ money on the flooded districts of the south right now.
Keep government small. I think the republicans are on to something here.
Ron Paul actually said this over the weekend. Specifically that if we didn't have levees individuals wouldn't live near the river so there'd be no problem and no need for flood control.
Libertarian really is just another word for sociopath.
A Libertarian is a Republican in mirrored sunglasses.
A libertarian is a Republican who smokes weed.
Right. Just like libertarians choose not to live in places prone to earthquakes, tornados, blizzards, coastal areas affected by hurricanes, etc. See, we don't need gub'mint taxes and spendy help. We need more libertarians choosing the right places to live.
libertarians choosing the right places to live.
Most simply choose Mom's basement.
Because rivers have never been a leading conduit of commerce, let alone commerce itself.
Tennessee Valley Authority, anyone? Hoover Dam?
Hey, if the gummint didn't build those hydro projects, people wouldn't be using so much electricity.
That would actually require anyone in the GOP to give a shit about saving money, as opposed to wasting it on war and booze.
You're implying that money spent on booze is 'wasted'?
Them's fightin' words.
Booze and hotpants!
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
You won't find it there, Columbus.
Also, up is down, in is out, black is white.
And Republicans have family values.
We spend almost as much on the military / "defense" as the rest of the world combined, which is unacceptable to the GOP; we must spend more than the rest of the world to truly conquer it; uh, keep America safe (I have no idea how to do that strikeout thingy).
Not just the rest of the world. We must spend as much or more than the theoretical extraterrestrial opponents the Pentagon secretly plans for.
We need to close the Death Star gap!
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We spend almost as much on the military / "defense" as the rest of the world combined, which is unacceptable to the GOP; we must spend more than the rest of the world to truly keep munnys away from the lazy browns and whorey wimmenz.
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More Boehner: "Blah blah men & women in uniform blah blah class warfare blah blah welfare for those who need it blah blah no individual mandates blah blah socialism blah blah." I hate these fockers.
"blah blah taxes are off the table blah grownup conversation blah blah blah serious blah blah shared sacrifice blah" Fuck em. Fuck em all.
"fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck families and children fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck hardworking Americans fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck our military servicemen and women fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck sacrifice fuck fuck fuck fuck clean energy fuck fuck fuck fuck fiscal responsibility fuck fuck fuck …"
Well, obviously. Medicare, education, family planning services = unAmerican. Big, expensive toys that blow shit up halfway around the world = totally American. USA! USA! USA!
Against Teabagger spending?! Why must you hate America so?
You sleep until lunchtime, and this is the best you can do?
Brendan Buck is my new gay porn name.
Mine's John Böner.
You say Ummm…alot.
Sarah Lou Sarah has a nice porn ring to it.
Mine's Lou Sarah.
What did you think was cropped out of that supposedly topless photo of Sarah Palin with which Pareene teased us, oh, so many years ago?
Her pendulous postpartum udders?
Take the last names of the two main spokespeople for the Speaker and you get Buck Steel. I'm starting to think the Orange one has an affinity for barebacking.
You mean all the very serious talk about deficits and tax burdens on Our Children(tm) has just been so much political posturing for the base? Color me surprised (which still beats Boehner orange).
I'll stick to Indian Red, thank you very much!
Geronimo!
"…part of the reason …is that some defense funding was shifted from slower-spending to faster-spending activities."
Oh well, there ya go… I wish I had the luxury to do that… I would love to spends me some monies hastily.
We did that the other night when we took the kids to Outback instead of Burger King. It turns out that if you spend money rapidly, you end up spending more. Too bad that was impossible to predict.
i believe this is "hookers and blow", or more precisely "blow and hookers".
But aren't we leaving Afghanistan and Iraq? I mean Osama's dead, right?
I'm sure this will be breathlessly debated on the "news".
Where they will discuss the "deficit" and "courage."
Don't forget "entitlements"!
Only for those who "need it."
Due to what's known as "Republican Fiscal Policy" also known as Voodoo or Trickle down, the majority of us are going to need it.
"… increased spending for our men and women in uniform."
The uniform he means is, of course, the three piece suits favored by billionaires.
Hey, you guys, remember when they had the story on the news about how some of the armed forces had inadequate equipment and armor? Also, remember when they had the story on the news about how the returning veterans had inadequate medical care in falling-down hospitals?
Boy, I sure am glad those problems have been fixed!
Hooray for opposite day! Less spending is more spending. Obama is a socialist. Gingrich is full of "ideas".
It’s going to make the government spend more money this year than if spending had just been left alone
No, no, dig up, stupid!
Nuclear war with the USSR? We secretly wanted it but we didn't get it. Y2K? Good money for wilderness outfitters and gold sellers but otherwise a total bust. Planetary destruction via global warming? It seems like it's taking a long time and who has the patience. Armageddon and the Rapture? Does anyone even believe that shit anymore? A Black Swan sailing right up Wall Street? Nah, we survived it more or less. So what are you gonna do to destroy the world if the world won't destroy itself? How about we haggle about the debt ceiling until everyone starts to get worried that money doesn't actually exist. Bingo. Caveman days again, baby!
Come Saturday, you will rue those words. RUE, I SAY!
ITS QUIET NOWN THAT CBO IS SECRETELY LEAD BY GOERGE SORROS
Yeah, I gotcher budget package right here, pal.
Government doesn't have a spending problem, it has an arithmetic problem.
And who can forget the Trucknutz?
This is my rifle, this is my gun
One is for fighting, one is for faster-spending activities.
Hey 'baggers, there are free-market companies out there that will economically print spell-corrected posters with kerned layouts on durable materials…
Just trying to help…
Wait. Are you saying that photo isn't a satirical Halloween display?
It's times like these when I begin to question the good faith of the members of the legislature. I mean, it's as if they have ulterior motives.
Smell that?? That's sarcasm!
Needless to say, even though the increased spending goes to defense contractors, this will be spun as proof that Obama is committed to giving all our money to irresponsible brown people.
Right wing social engineering costs a lot of money. If the gummint would just ban abortions, like the 4fathers said, the budgets would be balanced.
Plus don't let teh Gheys get married. That's really expensive, what with two trousseaus per wedding.
'Math is hard'. Barbie
“The effect on outlays (based on how quickly the administration spends money) meanwhile is slowed due to increased and accelerated spending for our men and women in uniform."
Ok, I'm a reasonably intelligent guy and I've spent several precious minutes trying to make any sense out of this statement whatsoever. The result: fail. In all seriousness, can someone help parse this thing not politically, but simply syntactically? How can 'increased and accelerated spending' lead to a 'slowing' effect on outlays?
It takes a roadmap, but I read it as "the effect on outlays" = the reduction in actual spending supposedly made in the deal. So using semi consistent language, he's saying (I think) that while the deal itself will save money some day, it isn't today because we are spending money on defense.
Or in other words, if we don't continually treat military spending as emergency and sacrosanct, we might save a nickel down the road. That, and his unicorn is purple with a pink mane.
It takes more like a galactic map, so thanks for burning some psychic calories with me!
Tax cuts+increased Defense spending=PROFITS!
Shut your traitor hippie mouths, peaceniks. We need those depleted uranium HummerNutz for the troops!
It is ironic that if a 'bager put that sign up in my neighborhood I could call up code enforcement and have the owner cited for a nuisance. Ironic because the ordinance got passed by a bunch of Republicans, years ago, trying to surpress their opponents.
That was actually a smart ass liburl taking the piss out of the teabillies.
In 2004, I had a landlord who asked me to remove the Kerry-Edwards sign from my window.
Funny thing: they never asked me ahead of time about the Bush-Cheney sign they put in the yard.
Even funnier: Due to unfunded educational mandates, you thought the new sign said 'Take a dump here plz'…
Well, it makes sense. If you're going to fuck over the poor as many times as the republicans have, you better have a lot of guns to back it up. Ask the French.
I know, let's give discount coupons to the Oldz for their health care and block grant Medicaid (whatever that means)….and shazzam, problem solved.
Maybe just me… but I really cannot stand people that are capital and lower case deficient…
Makes me think "Idiot" right off the bat… and well hey… what do you know.
Also misusing "your" and "you're"; "there", they're", and "their"; and one that I don't even get, "were" and "where" (I mean, they don't even sound alike!), as in "We where going to the store".
Going we're?
what about e. e. cummings mr. or ms. liberal fancy punctuation rooster? hmmmmm????
(me? i am just too lazy to capitalize on the intertubes.)
Liberals just don't understand faith-based economics.
Send this sarcastic pearl of wisdom to Krugman, stat
hahahaha silly people! we won't need to balance the budget after saturday.
jesus will do it.
They are as bad at math as they are at spelling, grammar, history, and science. This should be no surprise.
Knowleje is eleetist.
Does this suprise anyone? Republicans always bitch about the budget then fuck it up more. Remember Reagan, and Cheney's "Deficits don't matter". FUCK YOU TEA-BAGGERS! I hope you all rot in hell you hypocrites.
I've come up with a simple way to balance the budget:
Cut military spending by 60%, permanently. Any proposed increase to that new spending limit will trigger a dollar for dollar tax increase on the wealthiest 3%. Problem solved.
Why don't we privatize the armed forces? Doesn't privatization fix everything? Well, that and lower taxes for the rich.
Hah – have you seen what Xe is charging the U.A.R. for a lousy 800 mercenaries?
The job creators have their own private security, fire and even mercenary armies.
Well
cursethank Jesus theyhaven'thaveraised the debt ceilingraided the endowments. Orhavehaven't.I'm not sure whether to not/upfist or not/downfist your comment.
Isn't that called "Project Graduation"?
Here's fifty bucks, kids. Don't go gettin' trashed tonight. Instead, give that fitty to your older brother and let him buy your beer tomorrow night.
Of course, the increased military spending was not used for things such as providing armored vehicles for the actual soldiers until the Obama administration, and even those were flawed and dangerous http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/07/marines_MRA...
Republicans are still on track to erase Washington, D.C. and its suburbs from the map, right?
those wingnuts have always wanted the capital city to be located in Richmond, VA
What the fuck ever. Have we invaded Syria yet?
Poor fuckhead BONER, all his lobbyist friends were giving him empty packs of Marlboros and Kools filled with hundred-dollar bills as outright bribery toward throwing his lily-white teabag pederast friends under the bus to appease "Wall Street" Nobama.
Ahem. Please excuse my brusqueness. I meant to say, "I wonder what Ross Perot is doing today."
If we don't have tanks, then what is to keep Canada from conquering us?
Note to local Asian sign-maker, Mee Ting: how about not signing your work so prominently until you get a little more proficient at it? Just sayin'
No reasonn to fret. I'm sure Sean Hannity will point out that this is all Bill Clinton's fault.
This is reminiscent of what happened when my son told me that we-the-'rents would save money if we would get phone service through his account on some kind of "family plan".
Xe is just short for 'Xenu'.
Where is Scientology on the list, again?
Next Kristallnacth the GOP plans to smash all the compact florescent bulbs. That'll save monies.
If all their munnies weren't going to Planned Parenthood, we could spend more on Defense.
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS!
Remember, boys and girs: by "our men and women in uniform," they mean "defense lobbyists."
F'ing Trailer Park Jesus!! Nice one, Tea tards and your mandates. What are we spending it on? The pointless war your boy Dubya started? Still paying for the useless Stars Wars non-sense your God Reagan started? And you still want to kick the poor vets in the ass after they've served? Nice one.
Brendan Buck, c'mon, that's a porn name…
I chalk it all up to "creative accounting".
Or possibly "creation accounting"?
So this Ass-Hat imports his signs from China? It is signed at the bottom-
MEE TinG
If we didn't have any rivers we wouldn't need any levees.
Gotta love it. "GOP says GOP's negotiating skills MIA on budget deal" >> http://bit.ly/kH7oih
That, and they use bullshit pseudoscience to claim that women and minorities are inferior to white men instead of the Bible.
&, at nite, when they pop in their Savannah Sampson dvd, they live in a wet basement.
Where's their "flood" relief?
Voodoo and Trickle Down have been replaced by Land War in Asia Trainwreck. Its what made the Soviet Union so successful.
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