The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr. President:
Thank you for your address to a Joint Session of the Congress last night, and for presenting your ideas. We believe creating long-term, sustainable jobs must be the top priority for elected leaders of both parties, and it is our desire to work with you to find common ground on steps that can be taken to allow our economy to grow and to create those jobs. While we have a different vision in terms of what is needed to boost private-sector job creation in our country, we believe your ideas merit consideration by the Congress, and believe the American people expect them to be given such consideration.
We look forward to receiving legislative text for any of your ideas in a manner that can be scored by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, and to the upcoming speech you described last night in which you will detail the offsets that will be needed to ensure your proposals are paid for.
(I SAY…IF YOU WANT JOB CREATION…VOTE THEM ALL OUT IN 2012. Post Scripts)
The House and our committees will immediately begin the process of reviewing and considering your proposals. We will examine the impact of your proposals on both short and long term economic growth and we will identify modifications and additional ideas that could achieve economic and job growth in a manner that may be more impactful or effective. For instance, these ideas could include elements of the multiple bills passed by the House earlier this year to remove government barriers to private-sector job creation that are currently awaiting action in the Senate. In addition, the House will continue with the jobs agenda outlined last month which among other things would provide relief to our nation’s job creators – especially small businesses – from the high costs of some of your Administration’s pending regulatory actions
As we are certain your advisors have told you, not all your ideas should be packaged in a single legislative vehicle. For instance, due to the structure of Trade Promotion Authority procedures, passage of the free trade agreements with our allies – Colombia, Panama and South Korea – is better achieved moving as stand-alone legislation. We again ask that you send those agreements immediately to the Congress for our consideration and approval.
We share your desire for bipartisan cooperation, and assume that your ideas were not presented as an all-or-nothing proposition, but rather in anticipation that the Congress may also have equally as effective proposals to offer for consideration. The American people expect us to bring together the best of both parties’ ideas, and it is our desire to work together to find common ground between your ideas and ours. The House is committed to working with our Senate colleagues and your administration to confront our nation’s economic and employment challenges.
Sincerely,
John Boehner, Speaker
Eric Cantor, Majority Leader
Kevin McCarthy, Majority Whip
Jeb Hensarling, Conference Chairman
Posted by Tina, Source: Business Insider
Those racist brown shirted Nazi barbarian lynch mob capitalist bastards can go straight to hell!
Sorry, I just had a QC moment. Or a Democratic party moment. I can’t tell the difference anymore.
It won’t happen again.
Chosen at random, the presidents budget proposal, year 2006, can be read here:
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy06/browse.html
In contrast the presidents budget, year 2012, can be found here:
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy12/index.html
and read here:
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy12/pdf/BUDGET-2012-BUD.pdf
President Obama has, once again, submitted a speech. The OMB has said of past proposals, “We don’t estimate speeches,” said Elmendorf. “We need much more specificity than was provided in that speech for us to do our analysis.”
source: http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/cbo-director-we-dont-estimate-speeches_575464.html
Dear Poser,
Although it is kind of you to remind me that legislation originates in the house, I must remind you that it was I who informed you of sthis in prior conversation. I believe you were, rather hideously, holding Ronald Reagan solely responsible for the reprehensible spendtrhift and tax loaded legislation written and passed by Tip O’Neill in the House after Speaker O’Neill had given his word there would be $3.00 in cuts for every $1.00 in spending.
You sir, forget yourself.
If you are only going to hold people responsible selectively, what, dear boy, is the point?
I wonder…is Barack Obama the ONLY president in recent history that failed to submit a written budget proposal to Congress or just the most inept president to NOT have done so?
“It explains WHY America is in such deep $#!^.”
LIE!
America is in deep $#!^ largely because of the policies of the Democrat Party and all of the lying, dirty tricks, and other low life attributes they used to make them into law going back at least to the New Deal! Remove all the redsistribution legislation and the majority of the debt burden would simply vanish!
I do find it interesting that you can look at a deal such as the one that was struck between Reagan and O’Neill and only express anger with the one person who had integrity and negotiated honestly while ignoring and excusing the other.
What exactly does that say about Quentin Colgan? That he admires Tip O’ Neill rather than Reagan because he was so good at being an untrustworthy SOB? Just the kind of guy we need in politics!
I’ve about had it with your silent support of the Democrat hucksters in DC. You are such a poser.
Tina, you pose a good question. Was it ineptness or ignorance that kept Obama from proposing a budget? I’m going with a little of both.
We have to remember that his only claim to fame prior to serving a couple of months as a senator was as a community organizer. He has had no time to hone political skills and educate himself. But, he’s also operating under a lot of mistaken beliefs about lief, people and politics acquired from ignorant people he was raised by and strongly influenced by. Look at this moron Rev. Wright who had him under his spell for years. His mother and stepfather had no great love for or understanding of, America. She was an extreme liberal and his step dad was a 3rd world type that was no mover and shaker.
That kind of influence and unproven theories he picked up in college and reading books on socialism takes time to undue and sometimes it never happens.
Quentin, I’m curious WHO is a former president that you actually like?
“The House and our committees will immediately begin the process of reviewing and considering your proposals.”
Translation: We ain’t doing diddly-squat … solely and entirely to obstuct you, Obama, personally, … which is unlikely to play well with the electorate come 2012.
You is really dumb … but I did know that already.
http://thehill.com/homenews/news/180505-obama-gets-cool-response-from-republicans-even-some-dems
On the other hand, the President could take a page fronm the Clinton era and, realizing the mood of the country has shifted, begin to work with Republicans… a gesture that would be in line with the will of the people.
So far he’s deliberately stubborn, working against the best interests of the people, and on track to do more to fundamentally transform America per Marks and Keynes. In other words he will once again be unwilling to do diddly squat that is worth a da*n.
Cannot wait for 2012!
The Dems can and will pout, but which party has the majority in the House? … and so determines what does and does not get done?
I repeat, if that freshman class continues to be as obstructive as they have been, they’re gonna be handing Obama his second term on a plate.