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With just four days remaining until automatic budget cuts kick in, Republicans are looking to call President Obama's "bluff" -- by giving him the flexibility to spread around the budget-ax pain in a way that would prevent the kind of fiscal doomsday his administration is predicting.
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Republicans reportedly are working on a bill this week that would grant Obama's Cabinet more leeway to target the cuts in a responsible way.
Read more: Republicans aim to call Obama's 'bluff' on spending cuts | Fox News
...they're gonna cooperate?
Holy ****.
You call it cooperation, I call it caving....I think it is a HUGE mistake.
Cuts are cuts - why does it matter how they are implemented? It's only caving if they take sequestration off the table or delay it - if that happens, Republicans can kiss elective office goodbye.
Cuts are cuts - why does it matter how they are implemented? It's only caving if they take sequestration off the table or delay it - if that happens, Republicans can kiss elective office goodbye.
This is all such bull! Obama came up with this sequester crap, because he couldn't negotiate honestly with the GOP on a debt ceiling increase some year and a half ago. Now, not only does he want to blame his idea on repubs dishonestly, but want's to use typical fear tactics to get his way...I am so tired of this tin pot wanna be, repubs should ram these cuts right down his throat, and use every chance to make sure that America knows it was HIS idea.
I agree, but instead of letting Obama play games with the cuts, I say hands off, let it go through, and hang it around Obama's neck where it should be. After all, these aren't real cuts anyway...They are to proposed increases in future spending...Only in DC can a reduction in the proposed increase of spending be called a cut.
It does not matter. Obama won his goal, since these "cuts" are simply reductions in the "baseline budget" process increases, not any real deficit reduction at all. He staved off any serious reductions in domestic "discretionary" spending, half of these "cuts" are in defense. Obama got his tax "the rich" for $60 billion yet was allowed to add $90 billion in new spending ($30 billion for UI extension and $60 billion for Sandy storm relief) in that "deal" - a net federal deficit increase of $30 billion in one month, without any "pay as you go" nonsense. Note that the $85 billion figure discussed will likely end up being about half that since the 2013 fiscal year started on 10/1/2012 and the "cuts" start on 4/1/2013 (only 6 months remain in fiscal year 2013).
Just where is that Obama 2013 "budget"? Yep, he got away without one again!
As long as the "budget debate" is only about old stuff, that keeps any new spending cuts from being proposed, meanwhile Obama is scheming up more domestic spending increases on all fronts, gun control (bans/BG checks), immigration reform (amnesty) and education (free daycare). Obama wants to force the republicants to make entitlement cut proposals, you can rest assured that he will NEVER do so, so that the sheeple will demand that he "protect" them from that mean old party of the rich.
Our "tool of the status quo" President is far from my favorite leader, but I have to admit that when it comes to politics, he sure knows his stuff
He beat the hands on favorite (Hillary) in '08, and won re-election despite high unemployment and slow growth, and now he's running political circles around the woe-begotten GOP and all they can do is whine "it's not our fault. *HE* started it!"
Yep. The cuts are fake, yet the tax increases are real, thus Obama demands "balance"; for every $1 of not increasing spending he gets $1 of new tax revenue - brilliant!
This is all such bull! Obama came up with this sequester crap, because he couldn't negotiate honestly with the GOP on a debt ceiling increase some year and a half ago. Now, not only does he want to blame his idea on repubs dishonestly, but want's to use typical fear tactics to get his way...I am so tired of this tin pot wanna be, repubs should ram these cuts right down his throat, and use every chance to make sure that America knows it was HIS idea.
Where and when did the President put out a plan of $1 cut for $1 tax? I seem to remember a rather different statement.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/deficit_reduction_table_bucketed_r8.pdf
The CBO says the sequester will cut job growth by 750,000 jobs and reduce already dismal economic growth by 0.6 percent, but for some reason Republicans continue to rant on about how cutting government spending will create jobs - yeah, in some fantasyland they will.
A few months ago, we had Paul Ryan and his plan to cut the deficit by "closing loopholes", less than two months past, Boehner said his plan for "closing loopholes" would increase federal revenues by $800 billion but for some strange reason, none of the Republicans would ever state just which "loopholes" they planned to close.
PolitiFact | Obama says Republicans in Congress won't name one tax exemption they want to repeal
Where and when did the President put out a plan of $1 cut for $1 tax? I seem to remember a rather different statement.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/deficit_reduction_table_bucketed_r8.pdf
The CBO says the sequester will cut job growth by 750,000 jobs and reduce already dismal economic growth by 0.6 percent, but for some reason Republicans continue to rant on about how cutting government spending will create jobs - yeah, in some fantasyland they will.
A few months ago, we had Paul Ryan and his plan to cut the deficit by "closing loopholes", less than two months past, Boehner said his plan for "closing loopholes" would increase federal revenues by $800 billion but for some strange reason, none of the Republicans would ever state just which "loopholes" they planned to close.
PolitiFact | Obama says Republicans in Congress won't name one tax exemption they want to repeal
Nice try, but the GOP says it is cutting taxes that creates jobs, not cutting spending......
Closing "loopholes", Obama style, is simply a tax increase (targetted to "the rich"). Closing "loopholes", Ryan style, is always coupled with rate reductions - remaining revenue neutral.
Yep. The cuts are fake, yet the tax increases are real, thus Obama demands "balance"; for every $1 of not increasing spending he gets $1 of new tax revenue - brilliant!
Closing "loopholes", Obama style, is simply a tax increase (targetted to "the rich"). Closing "loopholes", Ryan style, is always coupled with rate reductions - remaining revenue neutral.
President Obama's "Balanced Approach" to Spending Cuts Means Tax Hikes
Obama Weekly Address: "Spending Cuts Must Be Balanced With More Reforms To Our Tax Code" | RealClearPolitics
Obama urges Congress to balance spending cuts, tax reform - Xinhua | English.news.cn
Closing "loopholes", Obama style, is simply a tax increase (targetted to "the rich"). Closing "loopholes", Ryan style, is always coupled with rate reductions - remaining revenue neutral.
"revenue neutral" will not decrease the national debt.
Doesn't that defeat the purpose?
Doesn't that defeat the purpose?
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