Posted on 03/05/2011 3:40:53 PM PST by John Semmens
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) chastised GOP colleagues as “intransigent” in their refusal to accept the Democrat’s “50% cut” proposal.
“Look, we have stated repeatedly that we are willing to scale back spending increases by 50%--to meet our opponents halfway, so to speak, but we can’t get any agreement,” Pelosi complained.
Reid mocked House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) for “letting himself be bossed around by a caucus dominated by freshman representatives. Boehner’s been around long enough to know the score. There’s no realistic way we can actually reduce spending. Getting an agreement on slowing the rate of growth in spending is the best he can hope for. The President’s offer to settle for half of the increase in spending that he’d like is as generous as he can be. Boehner needs to get real and stop kowtowing to those newly elected Republicans who don’t understand how Washington works.”
I’m unhappy with the Pelosicrat’s outrageous spending.
I want leftists to be miserable. Forever.
I am unhappy with the DIMocRATS being such anti-American, anti-America, anti-Freedom, anti-Constitution, anti-Free Market, anti-Sanity, anti-Logic, anti-Anything Positive losers. I hope the Republicans grow a spine and hold tight in the face of the continuing DIM/LIB assault on sanity.
Don’t budge GOP. They would not negotiate with you.
JoMa
Tough Sh!t. You lost, we won. To quote an empty suit.
They are. No matter what. it is their job.
It’s satire...it’s satire...it’s satire...
Anyone else get that - scale back the increases by 50%. In other words, she still wants increased federal spending. Earth to Nancy, Earth to Nancy - you don't get it, you don't get any increases, we are going to cut your spending. A lot. We are going to reduce the size/scope of the federal government significantly. The feds will live within their means, and those means will be much much smaller.
“Look, we have stated repeatedly that we are willing to scale back outrageous over spending increases by 50%--to meet our opponents at the halfway point of our goal which we can always get to next year if they don't actually cut the budget, so to speak, but we can’t get any agreement because they are demanding real budget cuts not just a cut in the rate of increase of our deficit budget,” Pelosi complained.
And this one just stands on it's own (emphasis again mine, but his words apparently).
Reid mocked House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) for “letting himself be bossed around by a caucus dominated by freshman representatives. Boehner’s been around long enough to know the score. There’s no realistic way we can actually reduce spending.
Actually there are ways to reduce spending...
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Hold the line. The American people want the cost of government brought under enough control that it stops running our lives and making decisions we can/should make for ourselves as free people in a Free Republic.
so they want GOP to agree to increase spending, but only 50% of what the democraps WANTED to increase it
Shove it Nazi Pelosi, If you call that a compromise.
A compromise would be actually decreasing spending, only maybe not as much as we would like (since WE ARE IN CHARGE NOW)
A compromise is NOT giving your enemy half of what they want, when you are in charge.
Permit me to explain what that really means.
Dems Unhappy with GOP Unwillingness to Drop Their Pants and Grab Their Ankles. How selfish of Republicans.
Almost...... LOL!
RETURN SPENDING TO 2008 LEVELS - *THEN* START CUTTING
Ahhh, why did you have that spending to begin with.
If the GOP wasn’t there, do you mean you would have cut 50% or NONE at all and still go on your spending spree?
I think the latter.
It would be the latter while you tell the GOP to set in the back of the bus.
Pizz on you Pelousie. We won this time!
GOP to Rats request to Compromise, NUTS!
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