Posted on 09/08/2011 12:50:31 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
They’ve only met once, but Sen. Jon Kyl is already threatening to quit the deficit busting supercommittee if the panel pushes more defense cuts.
“I’m off the committee” if there are deeper cuts to the military, Kyl warned at a forum sponsored by several conservative think tanks, including AEI, the Foreign Policy Institute, and the Heritage Foundation.
...Kyl and others are also deeply worried about the so-called “trigger” in the debt-limit law passed last month. If the supercommittee fails to reach between $1.2 trillion and $1.5 trillion in spending cuts, there will be automatic cuts in defense spending and Medicare.
The trigger was built into the debt limit deal in order to force serious action from the supercommittee, but Kyl and others are already promising to rewrite the law to water down the trigger if the deficit panel fails to reach a deal by Thanksgiving.
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What? Me? Wrong?
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Okay, what expenditure does it authorize? (I wasn't trying to be verbatim, ya know.)
Then find the cuts elsewhere.
Oh, wait. I’m not wrong. I said “MIGHT” be un-Constitutional.
I think it was the idea of the Imposter in the Oval Office.
If there is a ‘tie’ in any vote, he is the tie-breaker!!!
NO BIAS there, right????????
Kyl, McPain, Napolitano, Babbitt, Udall, AZ has “some splaining to do,” as Desi Arnaz, Sr., would say.
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