Posted on 03/12/2015 5:53:09 PM PDT by jazusamo
Emboldened by winning the shutdown showdown over homeland security, and poised to triumph on raising the debt limit, Senate Democrats set their sights Thursday on the budget sequesters, demanding that Republicans hike taxes and raise spending.
It was a shot across the bow for Republican budget writers, who are set to unveil their proposals next week, which are expected to further slash spending and balance the budget in 10 years — slowing the growth of runaway national debt that currently tops $18 trillion.
Senate Democrats insisted that keeping the automatic spending cuts would jeopardize the economic recovery, hurt the middle class and weaken the U.S. military. And they warned Republicans that President Obama will reject any budget sent to him that does not increase spending on both defense and domestic programs.
“The president has been very clear: He will not accept a budget that locks in sequester, and he will not accept a budget that severs that vital link between defense and nondefense spending,” said Shaun L.S. Donovan, the director of the president’s Office of Management and Budget, who joined Democrats at a Capitol Hill press conference to make the demands.
Mr. Donovan boasted that the spending scheme supported by Mr. Obama and his Democrats makes investments in infrastructure, manufacturing and education.
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But Yurtle is under his rock and Johnny Diaper is in the cry room.
Unfortunately McConnell is still doing Harry’s bidding. The Senate is a lost cause.
Call his bluff for once you chickens.
Come on, GOP! Kick the Dims to the curb!
They really ain't.
I already got a glimpse of the Republican budget, it said, “Whatever the Democrats want.”
Near as I can tell the Rats still are.
Two more years of the obama presidency and the “republican” controlled house and senate and there won’t be a middle class.
Dont hold your breath on that one.
“Chuckie thinks he and the Rats are still running the show, about time Boehner and McConnell show him otherwise.”
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I believe that Boehner and McConnell have shown Chuckie that the ‘RATS actually are still running the show despite being in the minority. Boehner and McConnell are, at best, weaklings or are, at worst, knowingly enabling the ‘RATS.
The GOP will cave.
They’re afraid of the word S-H-U-T-D-O-W-N.
They’re terrified of being blamed by the Democrats and the MSM for shutting down the federal government.
I’m happy I didn’t vote last year despite all those on here who disparaged me for not voting.
Turns out I was right the new GOP majority has changed nothing in Washington.
Well, from what I hear, that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is one tough hombre.
Someone should tell the Democrats they lost the last election
Yeah, but first somebody needs to tell the Republicans they won.
Yeah, but first somebody needs to tell the Republicans they won.
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