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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy the F% do they not want "Balanced Budget" Lew??!!
I have given up trying to understand Republicans.
http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2013/01/cornyn-on-jack-lew-treasury-nod-qualms-on-spending.html/
Sen. John Cornyn on Jack Lew: qualms on Treasury picks spending record
Sen. John Cornyn, the Texas Republican who serves as deputy GOP leader in the Senate, called for a fair hearing on White House chief of staff Jack Lew, the presidents pick for Treasury Secretary. But he also offered some qualms.
Under Jack Lews leadership at the Office of Management and Budget, we saw trillion dollar deficits and no serious attempt to rein in spending, Cornyn said in a statement issued moments after the president presented his pick at an East Room ceremony. As President Obamas Chief of Staff, weve seen on-going dilatory tactics as the nation stares down one fiscal crisis after another. While Mr. Lew deserves a fair hearing, Texans deserve to hear the Presidents plan for cutting spending and balancing our budget.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Revenues don't have to be a separate question.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)The GOP will oppose anybody Obama nominates. The issue is with Obama's skin color and party affiliation. Until that changes, the GOPers will oppose pretty much all of Obama's nominations.
They essentially don't want him to govern. They can't handle the fact that Romney lost.
Selected By a Black, no more no less
spanone
(135,833 posts)hfojvt
(37,573 posts)as better than an unbalanced budget
but why is "cutting spending" the only way to balance a budget?
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)see: President Obama's proposal(s).
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)Make7
(8,543 posts)A plan that increases the debt and doesn't balance the budget for the foreseeable future while using imaginary numbers to not do it? And I should listen to anything he has to say on balancing the budget because ...?
babylonsister
(171,066 posts)snip//
I suppose the first question after any nomination announcement is whether Senate confirmation is likely. In this case, the Senate Republican minority already hates him, but history is clearly on Lew's side -- not only has it been 169 years since a Treasury nominee lost a confirmation vote, but Lew has personally been subjected to the Senate confirmation process five times. The combined number of "nay" votes? Zero.
That said, it's worth considering why, exactly, the GOP has come to dislike Lew so much that some Senate Republicans started announcing their opposition to his nomination before he was even introduced.
The answer, it appears, is that GOP leaders see him as too competent and knowledgeable, which has gotten in the way of Republican plans.
The New York Times had a fascinating piece last year on the 2011 debt-ceiling crisis negotiations, and House Speaker John Boehner's frustrations that Lew had a "detailed knowledge of the budget" that "outpaced anyone else's in the room." It got to the point that Boehner kept trying to get Lew out of the room, in the hopes that it'd be easier to strike a GOP-friendly deal.
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http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/01/10/16450460-obama-nominates-lew-for-treasury
Mass
(27,315 posts)The finance industry is in arms against him.
rbixby
(1,140 posts)Cornyn is responsible for the deficits too