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.
Read the comments after the article.
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.
Yep, I saw the error in her posting and knew she’d rightly take a hit for it. To me it says she still isn’t properly using staff to vet what she posts. Another unforced error and I don’t understand why.