Cato Institute says

[Roger Bacon]

In recent years, Ryan's budget blueprints and his plans to reform Medicare and Medicaid have been the subject of much Cato commentary. Though he is not without his faults, argues Cato scholar Chris Edwards, "Ryan understands federal spending and tax policies in enormous detail and is an articulate defender of free enterprise."

[Soul Crusher]

In recent years, Ryan's budget blueprints and his plans to reform Medicare and Medicaid have been the subject of much Cato commentary. Though he is not without his faults, argues Cato scholar Chris Edwards, "Ryan understands federal spending and tax policies in enormous detail and is an articulate defender of free enterprise."

Why else do you think the hard leftist obama sycophants are melting down?

[Kazan]

In recent years, Ryan's budget blueprints and his plans to reform Medicare and Medicaid have been the subject of much Cato commentary. Though he is not without his faults, argues Cato scholar Chris Edwards, "Ryan understands federal spending and tax policies in enormous detail and is an articulate defender of free enterprise."

That son of a bitch, how dare he understand economy

[Straw Man]

excellent - now maybe Ryan can fill in all the missing details in his budget so we can all understand it

we know it's more tax cuts for the top 1% and spending cuts for the services needed by the other 99%

once we get the details I'm sure it will be an easy sell to the American people

btw - the Cato Institute was originally called The Charles Koch Foundation

[Soul Crusher]

excellent - now maybe Ryan can fill in all the missing details in his budget so we can all understand it

we know it's more tax cuts for the top 1% and spending cuts for the services needed by the other 99%

once we get the details I'm sure it will be an easy sell to the American people

btw - the Cato Institute was originally called The Charles Koch Foundation

Where is obama's plan and budget? 

[Straw Man]

Where is obama's plan and budget? 

it's hiding over at the White House website

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/09/19/president-s-plan-economic-growth-and-deficit-reduction-0

[Soul Crusher]

it's hiding over at the White House website

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/09/19/president-s-plan-economic-growth-and-deficit-reduction-0

Is that the one that got 0 votes in the senate for 3 straight years because it was so ridiculous? 

[blacken700]

it's hiding over at the White House website

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/09/19/president-s-plan-economic-growth-and-deficit-reduction-0

when you only visit the far right nutjob sites you won't find much

[Soul Crusher]

when you only visit the far right nutjob sites you won't find much

His budget was voted down 0-97 last vote remember?   

[Roger Bacon]

Why else do you think the hard leftist obama sycophants are melting down?

Cato Institute says good things and I trust them. 

[Straw Man]

His budget was voted down 0-97 last vote remember?   

Are you referring to the gimmicks introduced by Repubs?

[Soul Crusher]

Are you referring to the gimmicks introduced by Repubs?

no - the GOP actually passed a budget, at least a few times.   So far under the failed presidency of Obama, no budget, no deficit reduction, no reigning in of spending, no responsible leadership, zilch. 

You know it, I know it, and everyone else knows it. 

[Straw Man]

no - the GOP actually passed a budget, at least a few times.   So far under the failed presidency of Obama, no budget, no deficit reduction, no reigning in of spending, no responsible leadership, zilch. 

You know it, I know it, and everyone else knows it. 

I'm referring to the thing you called Obama's budget which was voted down unanimously in both the House and Senate

rember you called it "his budget" jut two posts up from here?

[Soul Crusher]

I'm referring to the thing you called Obama's budget which was voted down unanimously in both the House and Senate

rember you called it "his budget" jut two posts up from here?

Yes - even members of his own party said his budget was a sloppy joke and voted it down. 

No budget, no deficit reduction, no debt reduction, decay, despair, depression, and decline. 

4 more years!   

[Straw Man]

Yes - even members of his own party said his budget was a sloppy joke and voted it down. 

No budget, no deficit reduction, no debt reduction, decay, despair, depression, and decline. 

4 more years!   

so you're saying none of those right wing sites where you get your info ever explained the gimmick pulled by Repubs to get Dems to vote against "Obama's" budget

Here are the details you missed:

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/house-and-senate-unanimously-reject-obama-budgets-or-do-they/

House and Senate Unanimously Reject Obama Budgets — Or Do They?

The White House today reacted to news that representations of President Obama’s budget had been voted down by the House and Senate by decrying the introduction of the amendments, by Republicans, as “gimmicks.”

“Gimmicks are not solutions,” White House press secretary Jay Carney emailed to ABC News. “The American people overwhelmingly support a balanced approach to our long-term budget challenges. That’s the approach the President supports. The sooner Republicans drop their intransigence and join the American people in supporting a balanced approach, the sooner Congress will be able to come together and reach a compromise.”

Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Miss., introduced a budget amendment representing the president’s budget request; the Sessions amendment was voted down 99-0. (You can read it HERE.)

A similar effort from Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-SC, was rejected in the House 414-0.

Sessions told reporters that it was “stunning” that no one voted for the version of the Obama budget he put forward. “A sitting president of the United States, seeking reelection, can’t lay out a plan that will gain a single vote in the House or Senate for the financial future of America,” he said. “It speaks volumes

While the Sessions and Mulvaney bills put forward the same topline numbers as those in the president’s budget, neither offered any specifics. The Sessions legislation was 56 pages long; actual budgets are closer to 2,000 pages long.

Thus, a White House official said, the Sessions proposal was a “shell that could be filled with a number of things that could hurt our economy and hurt the middle class,” a White House official said. “For example, rather than ending tax breaks for millionaires his budget could hit the revenue target by raising taxes on the middle class and rather than ending wasteful programs, his budget could hit its spending target with severe cuts to important programs.”

“This is the president’s budget,” said the top Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee, Sen. Kent Conrad of South Dakota,  indicating the voluminous budget proposal President Obama offered. “This is what Sen. Sessions has presented as being the president’s budget,” he said,  indicating the much slimmer document.

“I think it’s readily apparent there is a big difference between the president’s budget, which I hold in my hands, and what Sen. Sessions has presented as being the president’s budget. This is not the president’s budget. So, of course, we’re not going to support it. It’s not what the president proposed.”

The White House official said the Sessions and Mulvaney’s bills were mere GOP stunts to get Democrats on record opposing ‘the President’s budget’” as well as distracting from what the House Republican budget would do, which the official described as “protect(ing) massive tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires while making the middle class and seniors pay.”

-Jake Tapper

[GigantorX]

When was the last actual budget passed?

[Fury]

When was the last actual budget passed?

I keep forgetting. Who controls the do nothing Senate?

[tonymctones]

2 years of democratic controlled congress and nothing...

end of thread...

[Straw Man]

2 years of democratic controlled congress and nothing...

end of thread...

Dems barely controlled the Senate before Kennedy got sick and how long did it take for Franken to get sworn in

Is it any suprise the Charles Koch Foundation aka the Cato Institute is in favor of more tax cuts on the wealthy