Democrats map out plan to win sequestration war (Guess what's in the plan without peeking...)

POLITICO ^ | 02/09/2013 | Manu Raju

[SeekAndFind]

Senate Democrats are digging in against Republican calls for deeper spending cuts by bringing out some of their favorite punching bags: corporate jets, Wall Street and Big Oil.

With the automatic budget cuts in the sequester coming up next month, Democrats hope to vote on an alternative plan to raise taxes on some of their favorite boogeymen in hopes of shifting the blame when the GOP inevitably rejects it.

Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray of Washington, Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus of Montana and Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski of Maryland met Thursday to map out their options and plan their public rollout.

The Democratic public pressure campaign is expected to begin in earnest next week, starting with President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday and a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing expected Thursday at which senior administration officials will most likely sound the alarm that so-called sequestration cuts would devastate the economy.

Votes could come as soon as next week, though they might slip until the end of the month after the Senate’s weeklong Presidents’ Day recess.

According to sources familiar with the matter, Democrats are leaning toward a plan that would be split 50-50 between spending cuts and tax hikes, financed in large part by new taxes on corporate and wealthy taxpayers.

“I’m not identifying replacement cuts — I’m working on a balanced solution,”Mikulski told POLITICO on Thursday. “We’ve already taken those cuts. … I think there’s consensus that we need revenue and there’s also an understanding that we’ve already worked to substantially cut domestic spending.”

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[tanknetter]

I see my girl Babs Mikulski right in the middle of this fiasco

Yeah ... I'd love to see the GOP House just zero out all funding for the Webb Space Telescope, and put a rider on the bill ordering that everything constructed to date needs to be cut up for scrap within 30 days.

Even if it would make it back in during conference, it would be incredibly amusing to watch Babs go completely apesh*t (or would that be trollsh*t?)

[Antoninus II]

The same crew, now aging, are the ones that are just fine with total government control and consider the "benevolence" of the Feds to be a good thing.

That's because now they are the ones that infiltrated it and are changing it to what they envisioned then...

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks SeekAndFind.

...by bringing out some of their favorite punching bags: corporate jets, Wall Street and Big Oil.

Al Gore, Michael Moore, and other Limo Libs hardest hit.