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1. #1
   On March 6th, 2009 at 11:18 am, sonofdy said:

   HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA,

   No wait, he is serious???

   Well I agree with the idea, it aint going to happen.

2. #2
   On March 6th, 2009 at 11:18 am, 24Klady said:

   Finally, a voice of reason. Send Boehner an e-mail voicing your approval!

3. #3
   On March 6th, 2009 at 11:29 am, Truesoldier said:

   Now that is truly showing some Cojones!!!

4. #4
   On March 6th, 2009 at 11:31 am, cheapseat said:

   with a minority voice of reason in a communist party meeting.

5. #5
   On March 6th, 2009 at 11:34 am, PBoilermaker said:

   Would be great if it actually happened, but it is not in their agenda to close the checkbook right now.

6. #6
   On March 6th, 2009 at 11:36 am, JDinTX said:

   Don’t hold your breath. I’m sure some RINO’s really don’t believe in holding the line.

7. #7
   On March 6th, 2009 at 11:37 am, Truesoldier said:

   On March 6th, 2009 at 11:34 am, PBoilermaker said:
   Would be great if it actually happened, but it is not in their agenda to close the checkbook right now.

   True, but the more publicity this gets teh better.

8. #8
   On March 6th, 2009 at 11:37 am, Craig said:

   House Republicans push for spending freeze

   Why they didn’t do this the last 4+ years is beyond me.

9. #9
   On March 6th, 2009 at 11:37 am, irving said:

   A freeze? Why not a spending CUT?

   Well, it’s a start. Even this would be teaching the congressional dog and brand new trick.

10. #10
    On March 6th, 2009 at 11:38 am, infallible said:

    This would mean a lot more if the Congressional Republicans would have been so concerned about spending over the last 8 years as well. Now it just feels like hypocrisy and the same old partisan politickin’ that we’ve always had.

    Not that I don’t want this to pass, mind you.

11. #11
    On March 6th, 2009 at 11:46 am, Savage24 said:

    They should have had a spending freeze for the last ten years. It’s a little late for them to start trying to doing the right thing. They ran the economy into the toilet and now they want to fix the toilet.

12. #12
    On March 6th, 2009 at 11:47 am, jsmiddleton4 said:

    Same ones who put 40% of the ear marks in the current bill?

13. #13
    On March 6th, 2009 at 11:49 am, Paul Revere said:

    Would’ve been nice to have this for the last 8 years, but I’m a spending freeze whore and will take what I can get.

14. #14
    On March 6th, 2009 at 11:52 am, twiggman said:

    # 12 you beat me to it….

15. #15
    On March 6th, 2009 at 11:52 am, FilmLadd said:

    On March 6th, 2009 at 11:37 am, irving said:

    A freeze? Why not a spending CUT?

    A spending freeze during an inflationary period amounts to a cut.

16. #16
    On March 6th, 2009 at 11:53 am, FilmLadd said:

    Which would be great…

17. #17
    On March 6th, 2009 at 11:58 am, NJ-Aviator said:

    At least there is someone on Capitol Hill with some sense.

    If it doesn’t happen, I hope it at least gets lots of press.

18. #18
    On March 6th, 2009 at 11:59 am, tre said:

    Better late than never. But, if they’d been Conservative during the last eight years, then we might have a good, Conservative President now.

19. #19
    On March 6th, 2009 at 12:00 pm, rocketman said:

    ***
    What in the world are Boehner and the other Republicans smoking up? They are like a few fleas standing on the track as the O’Bummer bullet train roars over them and over the cliff. The new U.S.S.A. citizens are on board and are cheering the fast Hope and Change Express ride.
    ***
    Too many of the crooks of both parties have their pork projects set up to do anything effective. This is just more KABUKI THEATER to try to cover their actions in looting the taxpayers.
    ***
    John Bibb
    ***

20. #20
    On March 6th, 2009 at 12:02 pm, Socky said:

    It’s a little late for them to start trying to doing the right thing.

    And this is an excuse to keep doing the wrong thing? Cheese.

21. #21
    On March 6th, 2009 at 12:05 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    Even if the fraudulent ‘moderate Dems’ of the Blue Dof caucus voted with the GOP, the Marxists still have the votes to pass whatever Pelosi wants.

    The only silver lining, Obama may not have had time to ACORNize voter registration/same day voting, and Rahm ‘The Ballerina’ Emmanuel will not have been in charge of the Census before the 2010 midterms.

    The Senate is tough sledding, more Republicans defending seats than Dems, but there are a few, such as Specter, if he loses to a Dem, no loss, and he might lose his primary, and even one or two more real Republicans make a filibuster possible.

    But perhaps the House might go GOP, or at least come close enough that even if Pelosi is in charge the Marxist and/or corrupt congresspeople from moderate districts won’t give Obama a blank check to complete the Chavezization of the US.

    I just hope Michael Steele will spend less time criticizing Rush Limbaugh on CNN and sending e-mails to the choir and more time getting GOP House members on TV or getting on MSM himself.

    I know, Northeastern Republican, expecting Steele to have a conservative backbone is asking a lot.

22. #22
    On March 6th, 2009 at 12:13 pm, irving said:

    A spending freeze during an inflationary period amounts to a cut.

    It amounts to a cut in purchasing power, not a cut in spending. For there to be a cut in spending that actual number of dollars spent needs to go down. See how it works?

    We need them to cut spending. A LOT!

23. #23
    On March 6th, 2009 at 12:21 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

    I’m sure Empress Peloser will give the proposal some serious consideration.

    The top Republican in the House is seizing on the latest spike in unemployment to call for a freeze on government spending…

    Oh, wait. She’d have to change the rules again because he is not allowed to submit any amendments or bills of his own. All he can do is call for stuff.

24. #24
    On March 6th, 2009 at 12:25 pm, battleaxe said:

    I have a better idea. The unemployment rate and DOW Jones average are currently around 1980 levels – lets freeze government spending at 1980 levels too.

25. #25
    On March 6th, 2009 at 12:53 pm, katablog said:

    Golly, we finally get someone to float responsibility in the Senate and it seems most want to whine about that and ask why we didn’t do it before.

    It’s got to start somewhere and NOW is a good time.

26. #26
    On March 6th, 2009 at 1:08 pm, NJ-Aviator said:

    And they blow an opportunity by letting 26 republicans not vote. Some of them had to be in or near the chamber. They should be called out on the carpet over this. They were elected to represent and they can’t even manage to vote?

27. #27
    On March 6th, 2009 at 1:11 pm, happyscrapper said:

    On March 6th, 2009 at 11:38 am, infallible said:
    This would mean a lot more if the Congressional Republicans would have been so concerned about spending over the last 8 years as well. Now it just feels like hypocrisy and the same old partisan politickin’ that we’ve always had.

    Not that I don’t want this to pass, mind you.

    I don’t see this as hypocrisy at all! I agree that the Congress over the last 8 years was living in a fog! The last 2 years were democrat majority, but the previous 6 were Republican majority. Plenty of blame to go around! However, just because they were in a fog and never addressed the problem of earmarks, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do it NOW!! This is not hypocrisy…it is trying to fix the problem, no matter who was to blame in the past. We have to get over the last 8 years and deal with a very very serious, almost deadly situation.

28. #28
    On March 6th, 2009 at 1:11 pm, love2rumba said:

    Eight Democrats voted with the Republicans: Altmire, Childers, Donnelly, Ellsworth, Giffords, Minnick, Mitchell and Nye

    26 Republicans and 28 Democrats did not have the courage to vote or were otherwise absent.

    Let’s find out who the REpublican scalywags were…

29. #29
    On March 6th, 2009 at 1:31 pm, denver republican said:

    On March 6th, 2009 at 12:25 pm, battleaxe said:

    I have a better idea. The unemployment rate and DOW Jones average are currently around 1980 levels – lets freeze government spending at 1980 levels too.

    Ooooooh, I get all tingly when you talk like that!

30. #30
    On March 6th, 2009 at 1:45 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    Voting “present” or skipping votes althogether didn’t cause Obama any trouble, after all.

31. #31
    On March 6th, 2009 at 1:46 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    The 1980 budget was Jimmy Carter’s budget, far smaller than current, for sure, but the military was rather badly neglected in that budget as well.

32. #32
    On March 6th, 2009 at 2:08 pm, Freddy said:

    While the ammendment itself had no chance to pass, it does show Obama that his veto would. I doubt this matters to a now deaf Obama.

    What purpose, beyond campaigning for 2012, does Obama serve at a police academy in Cleveland? After claiming how he was working so hard on health care yesterday, it seems surprising that today he decided to just pitch whatever came from his ‘working’ sessions.

    Who is running the white house while Obama is constantly out campaigning? Clearly, the people that are running the white house send him on the road while they do the peoples work.

    Is it possible that as an executive, Obama is anything but abject failure?

    Anyone here want to bet Obama will find his way to that Boston/Cavs game tonight?

33. #33
    On March 6th, 2009 at 2:45 pm, happyscrapper said:

    On March 6th, 2009 at 1:08 pm, NJ-Aviator said:
    And they blow an opportunity by letting 26 republicans not vote. Some of them had to be in or near the chamber. They should be called out on the carpet over this. They were elected to represent and they can’t even manage to vote?

    We do need to find out who the 26 republicans are who didn’t show up to vote! They are being paid to be on the job when they are needed. And they were desperately needed for that vote! Who are they??? We will find out and they will hear from us. Don’t forget (like they have)…THEY work for US!

34. #34
    On March 6th, 2009 at 7:09 pm, RabbidSquirrel said:

    On March 6th, 2009 at 11:29 am, Truesoldier said:

    Now that is truly showing some Cojones!!!

    Refried Beans??

35. #35
    On March 6th, 2009 at 10:33 pm, MichaelO said:

    There is a major Caveat to the earmark fight, however. The Democrats are not the only guilty party here.

36. #36
    On March 6th, 2009 at 11:05 pm, MichaelO said:

    What One Trillion Dollars looks like.

37. #37
    On March 7th, 2009 at 4:10 pm, lgm said:

    This stunt will guarantee support for House Republicans from the 20% of Americans who think Hoover had the right approach to depression management. The other 80% will lean Democratic. Keep it up.

38. #38
    On March 8th, 2009 at 4:11 pm, Bruce said:

    Who will work to oust the Obama regime? Oh yeah, that’s almost equivalent to a spending freeze… except we could save millions of children’s lives too.