How they Voted: FY 2010 Budget

I know I didn't put in the pretty colors (0.00 / 0)

but I did post this info twelve hours ago.  :-)

http://bluejersey.com/showDiar...

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by: Creed Pogue @ Fri Apr 03, 2009 at 17:13:10 PM UTC

a challenge... (0.00 / 0)

you said, "At least the Democrats can say their members sometimes voted for Republican budgets and priorities under President Bush (even when we didn't agree with those votes)."

show me one instance when one NJ Dem voted for a GOP/Bush budget.

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by: maxidoodler @ Fri Apr 03, 2009 at 20:44:36 PM UTC

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say what? (0.00 / 0)

Under the Republican misrule, we didn't have a budget in 2006 so the Democrats had to clean up the mess again without Republican help, so your standing to make a "challenge" is really non-existent.

What is really interesting is that even last year, Frelinghuysen, LoBiondo, Saxton and Smith voted AGAINST both the Republican substitute and the final Democratic budget.

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by: Creed Pogue @ Fri Apr 03, 2009 at 22:26:34 PM UTC

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Creed making no sense (0.00 / 0)

Bush/GOP presented 8 budgets.

find me one instance where a NJ Dem voted for any of the GOP-introduced budgets?

simple question -- stop muddying it.

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by: maxidoodler @ Sun Apr 05, 2009 at 23:42:53 PM UTC

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they didn't present eight (0.00 / 0)

In 2006, nothing got passed.

Do you believe that any of the GOP budget resolutions should have been supported???

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by: Creed Pogue @ Mon Apr 06, 2009 at 03:04:09 AM UTC

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get your facts straight (0.00 / 0)

May 18, 2006
House vote #158

Fiscal 2007 Budget Resolution -- Adoption       H Con Res 376

Adopted 218-210: R 218-12; D 0-197  

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by: maxidoodler @ Mon Apr 06, 2009 at 20:15:25 PM UTC

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I didn't see (0.00 / 0)

your post when I wrote this last night.  I timed it to go up today and was at work.  Normally I like to promote if I see it.  Thanks for posting on it too.

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by: Jason Springer @ Fri Apr 03, 2009 at 21:41:09 PM UTC

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Moderate (0.00 / 0)

...because rather than showing their moderate credentials, they opposed both the President's budget that passed and their own party's effort which failed

Maybe I'm missing something, but that sounds pretty moderate to me.

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by: DSDan @ Fri Apr 03, 2009 at 22:20:42 PM UTC

if moderate = voted for nothing (0.00 / 0)

It is rather easy to say that you voted against this one or that one but they are paid to make choices.

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by: Creed Pogue @ Fri Apr 03, 2009 at 22:29:51 PM UTC

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and they did make a choice... (0.00 / 0)

they found each budget, for whatever reasons, did not deserve their support. That's pretty independent/moderate thinking if you ask me...rather than voting for the Dem budget because its by the Dems or the GOP budget because its by the GOP. That's following along...rubber-stamping if you will. And for the record, if you reported the full facts you would have noted that 20 Dems also voted against the Dem budget.

Given the state of our economy and debt levels already with China, President Obama needs to prioritize which area he wants to tackle first...and just do it one at a time, rather than all at the same time. There are massive costs to each policy area (health care, energy/climate change, education)...each are worthy and need to move forward, but we can't afford to go full throttle on all areas at this point in time.

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by: Reality Jax @ Sat Apr 04, 2009 at 18:25:23 PM UTC

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nothing realistic about any of it (0.00 / 0)

Just being against everything doesn't help with anything.

It is interesting that no one said that Bush needed to get Bin Laden before doing anything else but went far-right on his entire agenda, but Obama is taking actions that the majority support and people like you want him to go "one at a time."  If anyone actually believed that you say this as a supporter of the President's that would be one thing, but it is obvious that you are not.

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by: Creed Pogue @ Sun Apr 05, 2009 at 04:44:25 AM UTC

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Do I want him to succeed... (0.00 / 0)

absolutely. The country needs the optimism and change. Was he my candidate in the election, not at all. I thought (and still do) Senator Clinton would have been a better choice for the party. But President Obama is my country's president now and I support that...it doesn't mean I have to fall in line in complete agreement with his decisions.  

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by: Reality Jax @ Mon Apr 06, 2009 at 04:09:44 AM UTC

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so you actually voted for McCain??? (0.00 / 0)

That says a lot more about you than the rest of us.

What do you think President Hillary Clinton would be doing differently???

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by: Creed Pogue @ Mon Apr 06, 2009 at 14:23:01 PM UTC

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