Posted on 02/27/2013 8:02:23 AM PST by Lazamataz
Days before the March 1 deadline, Senate Republicans are circulating a draft bill that would cancel $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts and instead turn over authority to President Barack Obama to achieve the same level of savings under a plan to be filed by March 8.
The five- page document, which has the tacit support of Senate GOP leaders, represents a remarkable shift for the party. Having railed against Senate Democrats for not passing a budget, Republicans are now proposing that Congress surrender an important piece of its Constitutional “power of the purse” for the last seven months of this fiscal year.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/02/senate-gop-ponders-shifting-power-to-obama-88149.html#ixzz2M7EpMR1V
GOP leadership, aka The Democrat Front.
Agreed. In other words, let's just have the Reichstag fire without all the flames and burning and smoke and stuff.
I don’t understand!!!
I did not realize we had so many French Republicans.
It confirms what I have sensed all along. The Reps are starting to panic. They are the ones coming up with all of the alternatives. They are again negotiating with themselves.
They should just do nothing and ask the President and Reid to come up with a plan. Otherwise the miniscule cuts should go forward. We all know that this does not bind subsequent Congresses and that much of money will be restored under the CR negotiations.
Obama and the Dems are sending a clear message. No spending cuts will be tolerated--however small. It is meant to intimidate the Reps from making any further "cuts" without including tax increases on the "rich."
IF this is true, the republicrat party is done.
Stick a fork in it and drive a stake through its heart. And good riddance!
Kinda hard to get things done when you control 1/3 of the Government and the other side controls 2/3 of the Government.. Just saying.
It confirms what I have sensed all along. The Reps are starting to panic. They are the ones coming up with all of the alternatives. They are again negotiating with themselves.
Sadly, we have seen this train wreck before. McConnell lives for these complicated deals. I get worried when he is so quiet. He should have been with Boehner at the presser smacking the kenyan. But when McConnell is hiding under his desk something bad is always around the corner.
Hey Dummy,, the house has been passing the bills left and right.. It is Harry Reid who has been stopping them in the Senate..
Yes.
They are already gone.
And if it was not for Ronald Reagan, they would never have even existed.
Kinda hard to get things done when you control 1/3 of the Government and the other side controls 2/3 of the Government.. Just saying.
Kinda hard to get things done when you have no fight. The kenyan said we will cause sick kids to starve. Them’s fightin’ words. Yet nothing from the GOP about that vile demagoguery. NOTHING. And you want to give them a medal for that?
Who in the hell are you calling dummy? The facts are the facts. The HOUSE has to originate all fiscal spending bills, period. In practice, the Senate often takes the initiative and passes something, but it still has to pass through the House gate with the HOUSE recommending passing in conference what the Senate has proposed. If you were to look at the language of these conferences, you’d see the House is the one that finally approves. Call yourself a dummy
Always.
Coming from a loser Third Party supporter like you.. I doubt you losers supported Ronald Reagan..
I’m just stating the facts... BILLS HAVE BEEN COMING FROM THE HOUSE AND THE SENATE HAS REFUSED TO BRING IT TO A VOTE... Dumb Ass.
It’ll never happen - the democraps won’t fall for that. No way barky would take the fall and have to hand pick the programs that he’s cutting $85 billion from. First off that would mean he’d have to work, and we know he’s not going to do that. Second, then every dollar cut would be pinned on him - no way for him to blame anybody else.
Nice try for the rope-a-dope from the pubbies, but forget about it.
Maybe the strategy is to let obama own it all and take the fall for the economy.
Exactly. You've got it; most posters on this thread are clueless.
And this is not the first time this has been proposed contrary to what Politico is saying. The GOP has already been saying this but Bambi has not taken the bait.
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