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Posted on 04/09/2011 1:25:50 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) didn't want to cut anything at first. But bowing to political reality, eventually ponied up about $4.7 billion in cuts. He ended up with $33.8 billion less spending than he wanted. And he called it an "historic" accomplishment. (Not surprisingly, the left is appalled).
House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio), on the other hand, initially proposed $32 billion in spending cuts. House Republicans, led by an undaunted freshman class, bumped that number up to $61 billion ($100 billion off the president's budget), before settling on $38.5 billion.
That's $6.5 billion more than Boehner asked for to begin with, and $5.5 billion more than the $33 billion that Vice President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats claimed had been agreed to less than two weeks ago.
The budget number is pretty good, mainly because it kills programs instead of lowering their budgets for 6 months. so those 6 month numbers expand and grow in the coming year (snip) [emphasis added]
Obama even admitted in his speech infrastructure projects were being ‘delayed' (i.e., de-funded in 2011). Once de-funded, they will not be back any time soon. As fox News reports, this is a lot farther than the Democrats said they would be willing to go when this all started. (snip)
However, Boehner must have had an incredible stick in those negotiations, because Reid and Obama agreed to put things to vote in the Senate which everyone deemed impossible just last week. That is the truly amazing part of what Boehner pulled off yesterday:
The agreement reached with Senate Democrats guarantees a Senate debate and vote on legislation that would repeal President Obama's government takeover of health care in its entirety. The House passed such legislation in January as part of the Pledge to America.
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The agreement with Senate Democrats guarantees a Senate debate and vote on legislation that would end federal funding for Planned Parenthood.
The last thing Reid or Obama want is a vote in the senate on Obamacare (or Planned Parenthood). But now they are going to have to vote and this is huge. If this happens, and 4 of those 23 red-state Democrats up for reelection in 2012 vote against Obamacare, then the President will have to veto a bipartisan bill that lines up with the overall will of the American voters. What could be better than isolating Obama and Obamacare from the will of the people and Congress heading into 2012?
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Looks like the professional Republican gurus are on board with the professional Republican RINOs.
After all, they all went to the country’s top universities together, didn’t they?
National Review at this point is virtually worthless.
Yeah,a trillion added to the debt for the rest of this short year, another trillion plus next year, and then end this congress with another trillion to the debt...thanks boehner...
That tells me that Boehner needs to put somebody else in charge of negotiating. When you underestimate the strength of your own hand, you should get somebody else involved who knows how to play the game better.
The GOP did fine, but the media is relentless in their spin.
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“What could be better than isolating Obama and Obamacare from the will of the people...?”
Um... defunding it before it does even more damage to our country?
The GOP did just fine ... by rolling over to this idiot's brilliant leadership
Video: Boehner says GOP will keep its $100 billion pledge
Boehner's a liar.
Kills Programs??? What programs?
A promise he NEVER intended to keep ..he got the scratch (as opposed to a cut) he wanted and by the end of the year those freshman will learn their place and vote for re election
These creeps are simply getting used to living on their knees.
You got it
People in OH need to take a course in politics to see if they can be informed. But they would probably demand Boehner and Kucinich as their teachers.
Yep and it is not pretty ..
There, there, just drink this and everything will be fine...
The ignorant audience will never see the unmasked combatants gather after the "fight" over dinner, drinks and laughs.
These are government insiders are all riding in the back of the same limousine.
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Abraham Lincoln
This budget was not the Repubs'...it was the Dems' budget. There was no time for hearings, etc. They were thrust into an ad hoc situation because the Dems did not pass a budget (exactly because they wanted to confuse the Repub base which is happening).
The trillion dollar cuts are now laid out in Ryan's 2012 budget. This is where the serious cuts will begin to be made. Even then it all won't happen in a year...but we are on the right track.
idk im realy disappointed about the deal. we started out at 100 billion then prorated to whatever then down to 60 billion then down to 30 something and then it’s 30 including the 2 CRs. i mean come on. that sucked.
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