Some good news:
The Democratic reaction:House Republican leaders are ready to reopen the 2006 budget process to find more spending cuts to offset Hurricane Katrina relief costs, with the Budget Committee chairman wanting to find $20 billion in cuts.:Rep. Jim Nussle, Iowa Republican, wants a 2 percent across-the-board cut in discretionary spending, or about $17 billion, and wants to find about $3.5 billion in cuts to entitlement spending. That would come on top of the $34 billion cut to entitlement spending Congress is already scheduled to make.
Democrats remain adamantly opposed to cuts.:House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, and Rep. John M. Spratt Jr., the top Democrat on the Budget Committee, urged Republicans to cancel all of the spending cuts as well as the $70 billion in tax cuts called for in the budget.:"We disagree with Republicans who are using Katrina as a rationale to justify reconciliation cuts to safety-net programs," they wrote in a letter to Republican leaders.
So there we have it. One party believes in some spending cuts. The other believes in zilch. And that's why, as dumb as Republicans are, they still beat Democrats. Because they just aren't a serious alternative. While they may kick and scream on occasion about the budget deficit, it isn't the spending that they have a problem with. They just simply wish taxes were higher.
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