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Indi Guy

(3,992 posts)
Sun Sep 23, 2012, 06:40 PM Sep 2012

Automatic Budget Cuts Now Spook Some Key Republicans (Obama to be scapegoated)...

Source: SEATTLE TIMES


Rep. John Boehner, once "pretty happy" with the cuts, now calls them a threat.
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WASHINGTON — Republican congressional leaders are backing away from a trigger system of forced spending cuts that they hailed 13 months ago as a herald of fiscal discipline and for which GOP lawmakers voted by large margins.

With the forced cuts — called sequestration on Capitol Hill — scheduled by law to take effect Jan. 2 and no deal in sight to replace them, the Republicans say the reductions could harm the military, and they're blaming President Obama.

Obama
, in turn, is accusing the Republicans of flip-flopping by rejecting the strong budget controls they once championed...


Read more: http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2019235215_fiscalcliff23.html
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Automatic Budget Cuts Now Spook Some Key Republicans (Obama to be scapegoated)... (Original Post) Indi Guy Sep 2012 OP
AHH! AHH! that one is making us have to do work! a geek named Bob Sep 2012 #1
Don't blame Obama, blame Ryan. Downwinder Sep 2012 #2
They're just desperate for reasons to give voters to save Republican seats. After they have failed Overseas Sep 2012 #3
Nothing from the Pentagon is being "cut" bluestateguy Sep 2012 #4
Just The GOP elbloggoZY27 Sep 2012 #5
Didn't Boehner say they got 98% of what they wanted?? shraby Sep 2012 #6
yes he did and that is 'weeping boner' Angry Dragon Sep 2012 #7
He sure did... Indi Guy Sep 2012 #8
Hope DNC is readying both clips to use in an ad. n/t beac Sep 2012 #9
Yeah, and the ad should go something like this... Indi Guy Sep 2012 #10
Obama is going to be scapegoated ? Trajan Sep 2012 #11
Bonehead shouldn't have made devil's bargains in the first place. MADem Sep 2012 #12

Overseas

(12,121 posts)
3. They're just desperate for reasons to give voters to save Republican seats. After they have failed
Sun Sep 23, 2012, 06:53 PM
Sep 2012

the American people by putting politics ahead of the needs of our country and obstructing so many Democratic bills to put our people back to work.

bluestateguy

(44,173 posts)
4. Nothing from the Pentagon is being "cut"
Sun Sep 23, 2012, 06:55 PM
Sep 2012

It is only a "cut" for people using inside the Beltway Washington math.

 

elbloggoZY27

(283 posts)
5. Just The GOP
Sun Sep 23, 2012, 07:00 PM
Sep 2012

The GOP is guilty for this whole mess in Congress. They cannot compromise on anything productive. The truth is that Congress has a very low popularity due to their say no to anything the President proposed. All the GOP has to do is look into a mirror.

Indi Guy

(3,992 posts)
8. He sure did...
Sun Sep 23, 2012, 08:43 PM
Sep 2012

From the OP article:

..."This report confirms that the president's 'sequester' is a serious threat to our national security and must be replaced," House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, responded.

Boehner's stance was at odds with his celebratory pose after Obama signed the 2011 Budget Control Act on Aug. 2, 2011, that contained $1 trillion in defense cuts over a decade and threatened hundreds of billions more through forced reductions.

"I got 98 percent of what I wanted," Boehner said then. "I'm pretty happy."


Indi Guy

(3,992 posts)
10. Yeah, and the ad should go something like this...
Sun Sep 23, 2012, 11:50 PM
Sep 2012
[font size="3" color=darkblue] "I was for The Budget Control Act, before I was against it!"[/font]
 

Trajan

(19,089 posts)
11. Obama is going to be scapegoated ?
Mon Sep 24, 2012, 12:42 AM
Sep 2012

When did they STOP scapegoating him ?

When did they STOP scapegoating ANY Democrat ?

MADem

(135,425 posts)
12. Bonehead shouldn't have made devil's bargains in the first place.
Mon Sep 24, 2012, 02:29 AM
Sep 2012

What he should have done is loan rMoney some of his "man tan." He's got a better quality of Orange than the QT shit Mitt uses....

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