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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ANOTHER STUPID AND IGNORANT COMMENT.
This is doing well? BTW it is FR posted.
US to fund $20m remake of Sesame Street for Pakistan
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13015768
Just another $20 Mil down the toilet, to pay interest to the Chinese on.
The Detroit Lions do “just fine” every Sunday in the fall too.
Exactly. Initially the Democrats wanted $0 cuts, the Republicans wanted $61B. The Republicans got 80% of their goal, the Democrats got zip.
The “budget” is and always has been irrelevant. Appropriations is the whole ball of wax, and the GOP once again snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. Boehner and his cabal could learn something from the Dems: never diss your friends.
Yes, I was just responding to his citation of the authorities at NRO.
Boehner pulled off a huge success in getting them to agree to bringing the votes for Obamacare and funding Planned Parenthood to the Senate floor. That alone will help us in the upcoming elections perhaps more then any financial concessions. If we gain the Presidency and the Senate because of them being forced to support either or both we could win the extra seats to control Congress and the Presidency.
Thanks smoothsailing.
“The GOP did just fine...”
BULL-BUTTER!!!
As we will soon see.
The Republican hacks all seem to be throwing themselves into the path of the oncoming train for John Boehner.
How imprudent.
He did OK. Time to get over your own petulance and hand-wringing. Boehner, Ryan, Bachmann, DeMint... they all need us for debt ceiling and 2012 budget debates. They'll only have the spine we imbue them with.
btw, the zoo keepers at the D.C. were priority to be paid in the event of a shutdown.
Agree with you totally on the military pay. It needs to be done because we will probably be heading for more of these shutdown threats, at least in the near future.
It's going to be BEAUTIFUL to see the two Nelsons in the Senate forced to vote on ObamaCare again. The LAST thing either want to do leading into their 2012 election campaigns.
Thank you for that reality check. And hearing Boehner this AM there will be another big fight in May on raising the debt ceiling.
Republican first, Conservative second, eh?
Boehner's a liar...
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