Congressman John Campbell challenged President Obama’s Budget Director, Dr. Peter Orszag, this week, regarding Obama’s bloated deficit budget. Here is what Campbell had to say about their exchange:
The President’s Budget Director: Dr. Peter Orszag is the Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB). I have known Peter since I was first elected to Congress while he was with the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Dr. Orszag is left of center, but he is smart and intellectually honest. Being intellectually honest and trying to work in this administration and justify what this President is doing is difficult to say the least.
Campbell asserts, in the video above, that the President’s budget is not achievable, sustainable, or real. It is worth watching…
Click here to visit Campbell’s campaign website. He is being challenged this year by Irvine Councilwoman Beth Krom, who is a Democrat. Krom has been busted several times for wasting taxpayer money at the so-called Irvine Great Park, and for covering up what she and Larry Agran are up to on that board.
But WHAT are the Republican’s offering? Oops;
From Talking Points Memo;
This is pretty classic. A week ago GOP Rep. Jeb Hensarling (TX) was telling Chris Matthews about the glories of the House Republicans’ draft 2010 budget, filled with plans to cut and privatize Social Security and abolish Medicare. But as news began to spread this week about the draft plan prepared by chief House Republican budgeteer Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), the Republican leadership, especially Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) started acting like they barely knew anything about it.
That brings us up to today, when Republicans sent Rep. Hensarling to give the response to the president’s Saturday radio address. So what he say about the draft Ryan plan?
Not much. Hensarling for some reason used the whole time to talk about House Republicans’ 2009 budget. In other words, an outline plan from last year about the year that already happened and was actually panned at the time for not including any details and even including a lot of fake charts.
So what’s the deal? The House GOP is getting behind a budget which calls for partial abolition of Social Security and full abolition of Medicare. And they’re on the air talking about last year’s budget? Maybe Obama should talk about the Clinton surpluses? What’s the big need to hide what they’re actually proposing for next year?
–Josh Marshall
The fact that Beth Krom may be behind attacks on this blog doesn’t somehow alchemically make gold out of this knuckle-dragging, immigrant-bashing, birther-bill-carrying, bailout-and-Cash-for-Clunkers-backing, used-car-salesman RINO. Does it?
Isn’t there a Libertarian candidate or something? Isn’t that Andy Favor’s turf?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt3dz9KX3UE
Hey Vern – Lay off the calls of RINO.
You may .. no, you ARE absolutely correct, but that particular invective is the proprietary intellectual property of conservatives.
You do not bear the proper credentials for the use of this term.
I can say “RINO” as I do about both Calvert and Campbell, because it’s relevant as to whether Art or you should be supporting the compromised dicks.
I don’t buy that explanation Vern. The term RINO infers that a Republican is not conservative ENOUGH.
So unless you are a true conservative believer, think of RINO as the the “R” word for liberals – similar to the use of the “N” word – blacks can use it, whites may not use it.
No, I insist.
I know that you and Art are both economic, small-government conservatives, and opposed the TARP bailout and Cash For Clunkers (and I agree with you on the TARP bailout) – and I stand by my right to remind you both as an objective observer and commentator that you should not be supporting folks like Campbell and Calvert who backed those.
And that’s apart from the other reasons social liberal Art shouldn’t support Campbell.
Vern,
You can thank your litigious blue pals at the Liberal OC for putting me in Campbell’s corner. I was going to sit this one out but now that it has become apparent that Beth Krom is a good part of the reason they are suing me, I am going to be promoting Campbell 24/7.
He may not be the best, but he is a heck of a lot better than the corrupt Krom.
The Agran Machine Clone doesn’t even belong in the race. Krom is a corrupt, CAIR terrorist associated hack. Her name shows up in Jihadwatch.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/br0nc0s/managed-mt/mt-search.cgi?search=California&IncludeBlogs=1&limit=40&page=3
And I can speak to this because I wrote on this when I still lived in “the hood”.
http://orangejuiceblog.com/2009/04/agran-machine-clone-running-for-congress/
OCWeekly put out a lot on her when she first announced. Its called Google information seekers. Use it!
I know your game here Vern. You think that you can promote those guys as not conservative enough (RINOs) – so that us true blue (really red) conservatives will not support them.
Rather you would prefer that conservatives support Republicans more to the right than those two RINO fools. You feel that true conservative Rs will therefore become marginalized to what you believe is the more moderate or centrist electorate.
Well I have news for you Vern. The margins on the right are becoming much thinner – and the middle of the country and those districts are moving to the right.
You have been discovered my friend. I am serving you notice, cease an desist on your use of the term RINO – it is not proper and fitting for progs.
“Game?” I just calls ’em as I sees ’em.
Maybe you really feel like you’re confronted by a choice of two evils with Campbell and Krom. But in the case of Calvert, the corrupt RINO is actually being challenged in the Republican Primary by a true-blue conservative, rightwing Christian, and honest guy Chris Riggs. So in that case guys like you really have a choice.
And if Riggs won the primary, the fight in the general between him and Hedrick would be a fair one with no incumbent involved, both candidates honest, and the ideological difference between them clear-cut enough that 44th CD voters would have a real choice.
What a damned mess!
And look what the cat dragged in…
Red!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhZip41FAec
Riggs vs. Hedrick – I would like to see that happen Vern.
You used the “R” word again.
RINO? I know.
~Waves to Vern~ Purr….
Hey thanks Terry, that was an interesting distraction! 😉