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Democrats keep misleading on claimed budget 'cuts'
Washington Post ^ | March 3, 2011 | Glenn Kessler

Posted on 03/04/2011 9:04:12 AM PST by Kaslin

"The fact is that Democrats stand ready to meet the Republicans halfway on this. That would be fair."

-- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), March 3, 2011

"We are also prepared to put out specifics that will move another over $6 billion closer -- so that we will have met them halfway -- essentially split the difference between the president's request and [the GOP cuts in] H.R. 1."

-- Gene B. Sperling, director of the White House National Economic Council, March 3, 2011

"We have met them halfway, which in many ways is a perfect definition of an attempt to compromise."

-- White House press secretary Jay Carney, March 2, 2011

This has become a constant refrain by Democrats -- that they have already gone some distance to accommodate the Republicans' efforts to cut federal spending. We already awarded Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) two Pinocchios for this claim, but the talking point keeps popping up again and again.

We take no position on whether it makes sense to make these cuts at this time. But Democrats are being disingenuous by suggesting they have already worked hard to reduce spending or to reach out to Republicans.

(Excerpt) Read more at voices.washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: budget; cuts; debt; disingenuous; lies; pelosi; reid; spending
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1 posted on 03/04/2011 9:04:14 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Hell both have told so many whoppers, you would think they were burger king.


2 posted on 03/04/2011 9:07:46 AM PST by org.whodat
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To: Kaslin

Why keep using the fancy word “disingenuous”? Let’s call it what it is - - a freakin’ LIE!


3 posted on 03/04/2011 9:12:00 AM PST by jakota (®)
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To: Kaslin
Democrats lying?
No. That doesn't happen.


4 posted on 03/04/2011 9:13:15 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Kaslin

More evidence that Democrats think most people are really stupid. How else could they present money that was supposed to be budgeted but never was as a cut? The mind boggles.


5 posted on 03/04/2011 9:15:34 AM PST by Bayan
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To: Kaslin

bump


6 posted on 03/04/2011 9:17:16 AM PST by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: Kaslin

It only works because of the Democrat controlled Press.


7 posted on 03/04/2011 9:23:05 AM PST by screaminsunshine (34 States)
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To: Bayan

Grab a liberal by the throat and squeeze. Ask them if you stop when only one eye pops out if that’s meeting them half way?


8 posted on 03/04/2011 9:26:12 AM PST by bitterohiogunclinger (Proudly casting a heavy carbon footprint as I clean my guns ---)
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To: Kaslin
What democrats are NOT WILLING to accept is the way to go..
If they will sign off on it.. its NOT ENOUGH...

Who do we have negotiating for "US"... POLLY-ANNA?.. Dorothy and ToTo?.. Neville Chamberlain?..

"We" have overwhelming numbers in the House of Reps.. Jeeze..
The Unions are jumping the shark like scared mackerals..
I say bleed every last sound bite out of them..

9 posted on 03/04/2011 9:27:25 AM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: Kaslin

A democrats idea of a budget cut is just change the name of the program.


10 posted on 03/04/2011 9:36:09 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: Kaslin

The Republicans ain’t exactly telling the truth, either. The best they can muster is a 2% cut (primarily with baseline budgeting gimmicks) when Federal spending has increased by 25% in the past two years.....


11 posted on 03/04/2011 9:36:35 AM PST by Thermalseeker (The theft being perpetrated by Congress and the Fed makes Bernie Maddoff look like a pickpocket.)
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To: Kaslin
Yes; meet us halfway to Hell you dumbass.

You're at the back of the bus now for a REASON: we don't want your Progressive Agenda, and we want to de-fund ALL your past spending on it, too.

You are going to be cut off from past over-spending and un-Constitutional over-reach.

12 posted on 03/04/2011 9:37:26 AM PST by traditional1 ("Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
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To: Kaslin

There is a 1.6 Trillion dollar deficit. 61 Billion proposed by the house is a rounding error.
Call these rat bastards and ridicule them!


13 posted on 03/04/2011 9:42:34 AM PST by CPT Clay (Pick up your weapon and follow me.)
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To: hosepipe

Time to throw down the gauntlet. Pick one department and completely defund it. I suggest the Department of Labor would be a good place to start. The 2011 continuing resolution for the department totals $148.5 billion. Assuming half of the budget has already been spent, we can save $70 billion or more by killing the department next year. Other irrelevant departments deserving similar treatment include: Commerce, Agriculture, Education, HUD, Energy, and much of HHS.

The Republicans should be going after spending the same way Obama, Pelosi and Reid went after health care last year. Aim big and damn the torpedos.


14 posted on 03/04/2011 9:44:54 AM PST by Soul of the South (When times are tough the tough get going.)
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To: Soul of the South

True.. would take a speaker wrapped a little tighter than Boehner tho.. the boy has a weak comb over..


15 posted on 03/04/2011 9:54:39 AM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: Kaslin
"The fact is that Democrats stand ready to meet the Republicans halfway on this. That would be fair."
-- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), March 3, 2011

Nancy, you are a lying ditch, ugly and your mother dresses you funny.

Halfway on a budget amount that never existed?
Sane people DO NOT consider a reduced planned increase a cut.

16 posted on 03/04/2011 10:15:21 AM PST by Publius6961 (There has Never been a "Tax On The Rich" that has not reached the middle class)
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To: Soul of the South
Aim big and damn the torpedos.

Bears repeating...

Dear Republicans...

AIM REALLY BIGGER AND FULL SPEED AHEAD!

At least a 2 trillion$ reduction, then maybe meet them halfway.

17 posted on 03/04/2011 10:21:47 AM PST by Publius6961 (There has Never been a "Tax On The Rich" that has not reached the middle class)
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To: Bayan

Yeah, but it is really they side who is dumb. The left buys anything the rats present to them hook line and sinker.
We know better, don’t we?


18 posted on 03/04/2011 11:31:38 AM PST by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Kaslin

The WaPo done figgered it out. Halledamnlujah.


19 posted on 03/04/2011 1:00:16 PM PST by ratsreek
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To: ratsreek

Yeah, that surprised me too


20 posted on 03/04/2011 1:36:00 PM PST by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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