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this is apparently a list of policys that republicans want enacted in exchange for raising the debt ceiling
Republican Ransom Demand: Implement Romney Plan -- Daily Intelligencer
How is this reasonable. Republicans want obama to essentially enact the policys that Mitt Romney planned to implement if he won the 2012 election. Don't elections count for anything? Romney Lost! Romneys economic Plan was rejected at the ballot box! Obama beat romney.
Why are republicans trying to force Romney economic plan on the American people, even though it was beaten at the ballot box when obama won reelection?
And in case anyone thinks this is too incredable to be true, here is the breif that the article mentions
http://c9.nrostatic.com/sites/default/files/20130926_Debt_Limit_Brief.pdf
House Republicans have planned for weeks now to try to avert a government shutdown by promising their members an epic fight over the debt ceiling. Yesterday they began circulating their initial ransom list of demands that President Obama and Senate Democrats must meet or else watch the world economy melt down. It is, uh, rather extensive, and really needs to be read in full to appreciate its megalomaniacal ambition:
One Year Debt Limit Increase
• Not a dollar amount increase, but suspending the debt limit until the end of December 2014.
Similar to what we did earlier this year.
• Want the year long to align with the year delay of Obamacare.
One Year Obamacare delay
Tax Reform Instructions
• Similar to a bill we passed last fall, laying out broad from Ryan Budget principles for what tax reform should look like.
• Gives fast track authority for tax reform legislation
Energy and regulatory reforms to promote economic growth
• Includes pretty much every jobs bill we have passed this year and last Congress
• All of these policies have important positive economic effects.
• Energy provisions
Keystone Pipeline
Coal Ash regulations
Offshore drilling
Energy production on federal lands
EPA Carbon regulations
• Regulatory reform
REINS Act
Regulatory process reform
Consent decree reform
Blocking Net Neutrality
Mandatory Spending Reforms
• Mostly from the sequester replacement bills we passed last year
• Federal Employee retirement reform
• Ending the Dodd Frank bailout fund
• Transitioning CFPB funding to Appropriations
• Child Tax Credit Reform to prevent fraud
• Repealing the Social Services Block grant
Health Spending Reforms
• Means testing Medicare
• Repealing a Medicaid Provider tax gimmick
• Tort reform
• Altering Disproportion Share Hospitals
• Repealing the Public Health trust Fund
Does that list sound vaguely familiar? It’s Mitt Romney’s 2012 economic plan. Almost word for word, in fact. True, Romney proposed to repeal Obamacare, while the House Republicans propose to delay it for a year. But the gambit there — extend the debt ceiling for a year while delaying Obamacare a year, so that the next debt ceiling hike lines up with another Obamacare delay — makes the two tactics essentially the same.
Republican Ransom Demand: Implement Romney Plan -- Daily Intelligencer
How is this reasonable. Republicans want obama to essentially enact the policys that Mitt Romney planned to implement if he won the 2012 election. Don't elections count for anything? Romney Lost! Romneys economic Plan was rejected at the ballot box! Obama beat romney.
Why are republicans trying to force Romney economic plan on the American people, even though it was beaten at the ballot box when obama won reelection?
And in case anyone thinks this is too incredable to be true, here is the breif that the article mentions
http://c9.nrostatic.com/sites/default/files/20130926_Debt_Limit_Brief.pdf
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