California Conservative

According to this article, House and Senate Republicans will soon be going on the offensive with regards to President Obama’s budget. This was the subject of Wednesday’s blogger conference call.

The GOP leaders indicated they plan to keep up a daily critique of the administration’s budget proposal. Boehner said the $3.7 trillion budget, coming on top of a $785 billion stimulus package, a $410 billion omnibus spending package and trillions of dollars in aid to the financial system from the Treasury and the Federal Reserve, threatens to overwhelm the country. “There is a point at which we will bury the country under a mountain of debt,” Boehner said.

“We thought, given the magnitude of the issues in the budget, that this is the right battle to lock arms in, as much as we can, to explain the president’s budget and bring forward Republican prescriptions for economic growth,” Pence added.

Pence said House Republicans, led by ranking Budget Committee member Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, plan to offer a complete alternative budget proposal. Alexander said the Senate GOP will “offer specific alternatives to individual items” in Obama’s plan.

Pence said the GOP message would be that the Democratic budget plan “spends too much, taxes too much, borrows too much. Republicans have a better plan
.”

The GOP’s alternative budget, which includes lots of detail, will stifle the Democrats’ attacks. Democrats made the mistake of saying that Republicans are the “party of no.” The minute Republicans stage a high profile unveiling of their alternative budget, the Democrats’ attacks will be instantly thwarted.

What’s great about this is that their budget alternative gives people the opportunity to compare budgets, see which budget offers more fiscal restraint, tax cuts and the best prospect for creating sustained prosperity.

Prime Minister Pelosi’s spokesman id demagoging the issue:

Pelosi spokesman Nadeam Elshami said Republicans were continuing with negative messaging. “Press conferences don’t solve the American people’s problems. Actions and results do,” he said. “We hope Republicans will work with us to increase investments in health care and education so we can create jobs. Republicans are being the party of no.”

Elshami should demagogue this while he can. The minute the Republicans’ budget appears is the minute his schtick loses all credibility.

Actually, I think it’s be smart strategy if the GOP said that they’re the party of ‘No More’. After the monstrous amounts of spending that’s been appropriated, I’d bet that’d be a winning line with blue collar, middle class workers.

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