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Palin and admin wrangle over budget (Again, she's on the same level as the potus)
The Politico ^ | February 14, 2011 | Ben Smith

Posted on 02/14/2011 4:31:07 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

A Democratic official points out that Sarah Palin's latest attack on the Obama administration's budget cuts is not quite accurate.

On Twitter, Palin writes "Here's how minuscule the White House's $775 million a year cuts are: less than 1/10 of 1% of this year's budget deficit," responding to an op-ed by Obama budget director Jacob Lew...

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Issues; State and Local
KEYWORDS: budget; deficit; freepressforpalin; obama; palin; palinbachmann2012; sarah10pissant0
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Meanwhile, Gomer strums his guitar, Ron reserves another blimp and Willard hires more 20-something Ivy Leaguers to ship to New Hampshire.
1 posted on 02/14/2011 4:31:14 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Palin needs to stay on the attack on issues just like this. If she does, the public will move towards her.


2 posted on 02/14/2011 4:35:02 PM PST by GlockThe Vote (Who needs Al Queda to worry about when we have Obama?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Palin and admin wrangle over budget (Again, she’s on the same level as the potus)”

POTUS? Do you mean Phoney Interloper of the United States (PIOTUS)?

She’s actually way above the level of that lowlife.


3 posted on 02/14/2011 4:38:12 PM PST by laweeks
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Unless Congress makes SERIOUS cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare, and SS, (WAY over 50% of the budget) they may as well be rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.


4 posted on 02/14/2011 4:40:05 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Here is Sarah’s Facebook note on the subject.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2673584/posts


5 posted on 02/14/2011 4:41:54 PM PST by Clyde5445 (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want to be on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The problem here is that she gave her critics ammunition by missing a critical fact: the $775 Million was not the total amount of cuts proposed, but the sum of certain proposed cuts. The result is that the story becomes her lack of familiarity with the facts instead of Obama’s anemic budget cut proposals. This was not a win for our side, but distraction that allows them to discredit our arguments.


6 posted on 02/14/2011 4:44:56 PM PST by rob777
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Gov. Palin, if she officially declares herself in the race for POTUS, needs to block out all distractions and detractors and run against everything Hussein and his ilk stand for. She needs to become the grizzly and his worst nightmare 24/7/365 until the election. Let the RINOS in the race throw mud at each other. Focus on who the opposition is and attack, attack, attack relentlessly. Never give up...


7 posted on 02/14/2011 4:45:24 PM PST by OriginalChristian ('Mittens 2012' - GUARANTEES Four More Years of the Hussein Regime...)
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To: Clyde5445

Again, she is leading with her face and just begging for her argument to be discredited. The $775 Million is only the sum of certain proposed cuts, NOT the total.


8 posted on 02/14/2011 4:48:04 PM PST by rob777
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Shadow POTUS strikes!


9 posted on 02/14/2011 4:50:35 PM PST by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG 49) "Freedom's Fortress")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Politico and the rest of the Lame Stream are so afraid of her, you can almost see the trickle of yellow coming down their legs and making a puddle!

They fear her because she communicates AROUND their filters and speaks common sense. God bless her and her family.


10 posted on 02/14/2011 4:50:50 PM PST by Mr. Jazzy (HA! Not even Bill Maher thinks Odumbo is a Christian! HAHAHAHAHA!)
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To: rob777

Read the comments after the article.


11 posted on 02/14/2011 4:50:54 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. ~Lincoln)
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To: neodad

WE WOULD HAVE BEEN FINE WITH ALL THESE PROGRAMS (cuts to addicts,extended welfare breeders,etc) BUT THEY LEFT THE BORDERS OPEN....


12 posted on 02/14/2011 4:53:06 PM PST by magna carta
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To: Blood of Tyrants

The job will not be done on this until ObamaCare is completely demolished.


13 posted on 02/14/2011 4:54:11 PM PST by Jim W N
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To: rob777

She framed the cuts as $775 million per year. $775 million in cuts this year against a 1.6trillion deficit is chicken dung. The total Obama “tough choice cuts” added up to this. In fact, in later years, the cuts stay in but spending on other crap goes up. Obama raises taxes by 2 trillion over the next 10 years, but only gets 1.5 tril in deficit reductions.

Blog pimps are trying to parse it so it looks like she’s wrong, to no avail of course.


14 posted on 02/14/2011 4:58:27 PM PST by johncocktoasten (Practicing asymetrical thread warfare against anti-Palin Trolls)
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"Read the comments after the article."

,br> The comments only support what I said. She gave her opponents an opening to attack and make the the issue her lack of knowledge of the facts and not Obama's anemic budget cut proposals. Once again, the issue becomes her and not the substance of what is being argued. This is not at all good for the conservative cause. We need a spokesman who at least gets the facts straight before opening his/her mouth.
15 posted on 02/14/2011 4:58:55 PM PST by rob777
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To: johncocktoasten
Will you please read the article? $775 Million is only the total of THREE proposed cuts, not the whole total of all the proposed cuts:

"But in his piece, Lew only picked three examples that added up to $775 million -- rather the administration's cuts are more in the rage of $75 billion."

Go back and read the original piece where the $775 Million figure came from. It is clear that Sarah did not do her homework here.
16 posted on 02/14/2011 5:04:30 PM PST by rob777
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To: rob777

Let me guess: Like “business guru” Mitt Romney, right?


17 posted on 02/14/2011 5:05:38 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. ~Lincoln)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well it looks like we have some feeble minded here so I’ll provide the source link which was embedded in Gov. Palin’s Note.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/shock-graphics-show-severity-of-proposed-obama-budget-cuts/


18 posted on 02/14/2011 5:11:04 PM PST by Clyde5445 (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want to be on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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"Let me guess: Like “business guru” Mitt Romney, right?"

No, there is more than one figure who makes the conservative movement look bad. Please do not deflect attention away from the current matter of her making the issue about her instead of Obama's anemic budget cut proposals.
19 posted on 02/14/2011 5:11:26 PM PST by rob777
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To: Clyde5445

Looks like $770 million in hard cuts. The remaining reductions are based on spending freezes which are not really cuts at all.


20 posted on 02/14/2011 5:16:38 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (I am proclaiming 2011 as the year of ME!)
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