Republican “Austerity”

By: hogan (Diary)  |  April 8th at 11:32 PM  | 

So, let me get this straight… After all the back and forth, pledges, promises, tough fiscal talk and discussions of shutdown… Republicans have agreed to pass another short term CR with a few billion dollars in cuts – all being jammed through tonight by voice vote and basically sight-unseen (classic Washington transparency). This to get us to next week. Then, Republicans are likely going to | Read More »

“Right Now, Not Next Year, But Now”

By: hogan (Diary)  |  February 8th at 03:49 PM  | 

Congressional Republicans are breaking their pledge to cut spending “right now, not next year, but now.” Yet, the editors of National Review today, while swooning over the latest budget proposal of Paul Ryan (R-WI), lauded the House GOP for an “actual honest-to-God reduction in federal outlays of $32 billion.” How about we take a look at this with an honest-to-God perspective and the ability to | Read More »