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Originally Posted by sgtclub
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Sorry, club, didn't see this post until now.
What I posted says that the new House Republicans are going to take House rules followed in the last Congress -- which you fault as profligate -- and are going to make them
much worse, from a fiscal perspective. Your response is, that last crowd was pretty bad.
We can (and will) talk until the cows come home about whether the current budget problems are the result of Bush-era tax cuts (a Republican priority), wars in Iran and Afghanistan (ditto), TARP (started under Bush), the recession (something it would be foolish to blame on either party), stimulus (a Democratic priority), the recent budget-busting tax deal (a bipartisan affair), HCR (budget-neutral so far), etc. When I or other people have posted stuff showing that the current budget problems are almost entirely the result of Bush-era policies or their continuation, you've been silent.
Be that as it may, what the House Republicans have just done will make things even worse. They could have left the rules the same, but they made them worse.
