Mike Gravel Unequivocally Endorses The Common Sense Budget Act

December 10th, 2006 by ejent

"I wholeheartedly endorse the Priorities campaign because I believe it is the best work being done to educate Americans about the need for sensible federal budget priorities. The Priorities campaign presents a positive vision of investments in America's children, families and communities, by reducing wasteful Pentagon spending. And if elected President I pledge that I will fight with every fiber of my being to see that these new priorities are put into action through enactment of this legislation - the Common Sense Budget Act"

Link to website: www.prioritiesnh.org (Priorities New Hampshire)

Comments

No Equivocation?

Submitted on January 3rd, 2007 by jamesmcookusa

To equivocate in support of a piece of legislation is to have conditional support for it. The legislation you note fails to be fully specific, and does not contain full justifications for its cuts and redistributions. Isn't your support for this legislation conditional upon that level of specificity, and doesn't it require justification?

Isn't equivocation in the sense of setting conditions a sign of good leadership?

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Jim Cook

Irregular Times

http://irregulartimes.com

An unequivocal endorsement?

Submitted on December 25th, 2006 by jamesmcookusa

Mr. Gravel,

I'm glad to see that you've endorsed the Common Sense Budget Act -- H.R. 4898 in the 109th Congress -- but unequivocally? Whole-heartedly? And in one paragraph?

 

There's a lot to say about the proposed Act, and while I agree with its sense, it is quite incomplete. The legislation is unsourced and isn't specific at times about precisely which programs ought to be cut. Even the Korb report ( http://www.americanprogress.org/kf/korbreport_9-22.pdf ) upon which H.R. 4898 ( http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:H.R.4898: ) is based is pretty vague at times.

I've written a longer-form version of these thoughts at http://irregulartimes.com/index.php/archives/2006/12/25/mike-gravel-endorses-common-sense-budget-act/ if you're interested in a read, but in the short-form, my question is simply, shouldn't H.R. 4898 be the subject of a more equivocal endorsement until it is better fleshed out?

 

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Jim Cook

Irregular Times

http://irregulartimes.com

An unequivocal endorsement?

Submitted on December 25th, 2006 by jamesmcookusa

Mr. Gravel,

I'm glad to see that you've endorsed the Common Sense Budget Act -- H.R. 4898 in the 109th Congress -- but unequivocally? Whole-heartedly? And in one paragraph?

 

There's a lot to say about the proposed Act, and while I agree with its sense, it is quite incomplete. The legislation is unsourced and isn't specific at times about precisely which programs ought to be cut. Even the Korb report ( http://www.americanprogress.org/kf/korbreport_9-22.pdf ) upon which H.R. 4898 ( http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:H.R.4898: ) is based is pretty vague at times.

I've written a longer-form version of these thoughts at http://irregulartimes.com/index.php/archives/2006/12/25/mike-gravel-endorses-common-sense-budget-act/ if you're interested in a read, but in the short-form, my question is simply, shouldn't H.R. 4898 be the subject of a more equivocal endorsement until it is better fleshed out?

 

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Jim Cook

Irregular Times

http://irregulartimes.com