Posted on 05/05/2011 6:20:57 AM PDT by Hawk720
Senior Republicans conceded Wednesday that a deal is unlikely on a contentious plan to overhaul Medicare and offered to open budget talks with the White House by focusing on areas where both parties can agree, such as cutting farm subsidies.
On the eve of debt-reduction talks led by Vice President Biden, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (Va.) said Republicans remain convinced that reining in federal retirement programs is the key to stabilizing the nation’s finances over the long term. But he said Republicans recognize they may need to look elsewhere to achieve consensus after President Obama “excoriated us” for a proposal to privatize Medicare.
That search could start, Cantor said, with a list of GOP proposals that would save $715 billion over the next decade by ending payments to wealthy farmers, limiting lawsuits against doctors, and expanding government auctions of broadcast spectrum to telecommunications companies, among other items.
Democrats said they were encouraged by the move, which could smooth the way to a compromise allowing Congress to raise the legal limit on government borrowing and avoid a national default.
“There’s common ground there,” said Rep. Chris Van Hollen (Md.), the senior Democrat on the House Budget Committee, who is representing House Democrats in the Biden talks.
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There is no common ground with the devil unless one consider hell as such a place.
715 billion over the next decade?
really?
just damn
They won’t raise taxes. Just eliminate all your deductions and call them subsidies.
Standard Beltway GOP Operating Procedure:
1) Wait until some major world event in the headlines distracts everyone’s attention
2) Cave
It is time for a Teapublican Party. Out with the old, in with the new. A clean slate. A large step for mankind.
We’re screwed and “our” guys will be doing it.
The two-legged socialist beast negotiating with itself.
I pay no attention to what Boehner and Cantor say, they are mush-mouthed idiots. I am following Ryan. He is trustworthy, and in effect is running the Republican show. If he turns against the Republican leadership in the House and decries their mewling appeasement, they are through.
The rinos better not agree to any “triggered tax increases” just to give them cover. Eliminating the mortgage tax deduction would trigger a deep housing depression with a new wave of foreclosures resulting in an overall double dip recession.
Just continue on w/o a budget and refuse to raise the debt ceiling; this will force congress to use existing revenues to prioritize spending. Additional borrowing would have to be specifically authorized as it was before 1917.
But, But Lucy you promised this time to not move the football!
Stupid pubbies.
The only thing Republicans should be doing now is attacking barry and the senate dims for their hide and seek budgets. When they are talking about other stuff it lets the dims off the hook.
A leader would stand on hallowed ground: God’s word, the Constitution of the United States, and individual freedom. To the extent that liberals are willing to join us on that ground, we can find common ground. To the extent that the democrats want us to leave our proper role in maintaining the values and freedoms that our parents and grandparents passed on to us, and to violate the sacred trust and moral obligation to pass on a free country to our children, we should see no room for compromise.
I hope this is one of those make believe wishful thinking stories. If not, why is there a Republican party?
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As a safety valve. A pacifier.
We DON’T WANT any common ground with the Marxists!
Biden opens first round of let’s make a deal,lots of prizes offered.
When the GOP is seeking common ground with the Democrats you know you are already screwed. This is not going to go well. The GOP is going to sell out the public as usual and then they will come around with their hand out for donations to fight the Dems. Its a never ending crock.
Having Cantor or Boehner out in front of a budget deal seeking “common ground” with the marxists does not bode well.
These guys are such losers it boggles the mind.
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