Posted on 03/12/2011 7:51:21 PM PST by fightinJAG
"The Democrats have put forward spending cuts, many of them pretty painful, that give Republicans already half of what they were seeking, because they're the right thing to do."
- President Obama, March 11, 2011
The White House was not happy when we gave two Pinocchios to Democrats for persistently saying they have gone "halfway" to GOP proposals on cutting the 2011 fiscal year budget. We also suggested that the "halfway" phrase would be worth more Pinocchios if President Obama began to use it.
He did so in his weekly radio address March5, and then again at his news conference Friday, but not before the White House gave The Fact Checker a bunch of data and charts trying to make the administration's case for using the phrase. So let's review the issue again, and see how persuasive the administration's argument is.
The Facts
It comes down to where you draw the line - the budget baseline. Democrats like to draw the line at the president's proposal for 2011, even though it was never enacted. Under that measure, Republicans would cut about $100 billion and Democrats about $50 billion. That's where the "halfway" comes from.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I doubt if the 100 billion Republicans want to cut would come from the same places that the RATs 50 billion would come from.
So why don't they compromise and cut 150 billion?
The Washington Post isn't quite up to calling the President a liar...yet.
But they know that he is...
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