Now Mr. Pres__ent.. let's move onto the food and helath round of the debate. FRuit Loops or cranberry granola?
Posted on 10/23/2012 10:55:58 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama caught Capitol Hill by surprise with his comment that automatic spending cuts looming in January "will not happen," kindling hope among Democrats but doubt among Republicans that he has a viable plan to replace them.
In Monday night's debate against Republican Mitt Romney Obama did not say whether he had a specific plan in mind to avoid the $109 billion in cuts due to start on January 2, or if he was merely hopeful Congress would act. The across-the-board reductions, known as a sequester, are to be divided equally between defense and non-defense programs.
Democrats said the comment showed Obama's determination to push an alternative deficit reduction plan in the post-election session of Congress to replace the automatic cuts - even if he is not ready to reveal details.
"The president made it very clear. It's not going to occur, he's not going to let it occur," said Representative Gerald Connolly, a Democrat whose northern Virginia district is home to thousands of defense and other government workers.
"That was very heartening to my constituents and the voters in Virginia," Connolly added.
Republicans put little credence in Obama's debate vow, saying he has never offered them a plan to avoid the cuts, which were set in motion by last year's debt limit deal.
A spokesman for Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said: "We were all surprised by the president saying that the sequester ‘will not happen' given that he still hasn't presented a plan to make sure it ‘will not happen.'"
"While the Republican-led House has already taken action, Democrats in the Senate haven't even passed a budget, and the president has presented no plan to prevent the defense cuts."
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grabbing at one of the last remaining straws
But the tax increases are full steam ahead.
Good luck with that message, Commie.
It’s hard to believe that sequestration will really happen.
Even if the cuts do occur, they are a tiny fraction of what would be needed to cut into the deficit.
The administration is already walking this statement back.
Hussein was backed into a corner, so he did the thing that comes naturally to him - lie!
He’ll dictate an EO just before the election. WE done need no stink’n Congress
“Republicans put little credence in Obama’s debate vow, saying he has never offered them a plan to avoid the cuts, which were set in motion by last year’s debt limit deal.”
If I recall, his budget “plan” was slapped down 97-0 by the Senate.
Another LIE falls out of the LIAR-in-chief’s mouth. He says ANYTHING and then claims he didn’t say it. Hey, Candy—look that up-—and she will agree with the retard.
I see Wolf has trimmed his beard and Candy's mustache is gone. Thank goodness for make-up artists and hair stylists.
November 7th to January 20th.. 76 days?
.. and God only knows how many pardons, WH moving vans full of booty, EOs and more ways will O stick it in the face of uppity America.
He should just take advantage of the free green fees until he moves back to Hawaii, the island state from whence he hails..
Now Mr. Pres__ent.. let's move onto the food and helath round of the debate. FRuit Loops or cranberry granola?
Oh please. Does anyone actually believe that a Marxist, America-hating president who has already taken a meat axe to the nation’s military will keep his word about preventing further cuts??!!
Oh please. Does anyone actually believe that a Marxist, America-hating president who has already taken a meat axe to the nation’s military will keep his word about preventing further cuts??!!
I saw your avatar and thought you might be interested in this video I came across
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdiqwjA_dKU&list=HL1351017769&feature=mh_lolz
Lie!
Exactly. Obama just said the first thing that popped into his head (he must not have learned any lines for that one) and never considered the implications. Actually, he’s so dumb he probably didn’t realize there were any implications.
He says 2+2=5, so it must be so, right?
It’s call lying.
Pathological Lying.
The sequester came from Obama’s top people not Congress.
Obama made it very clear during the Democrat National Convention before Libya attack what his plans for sequestrations are. He said “that we are at peace and we are going to cut military spending and use it to build roads”
AP reporters reminded people that O is implying there’s some secret stash of money to be used for roads when in reality there is none and everything is borrowed.
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