You've gotta be kidding me: GOP Member Floats Ending Sequester In Exchange For SS and Medicare cuts [View all]

[Cali_Democrat]

What the hell kind of compromise is that? Hey Dems, we'll get rid of those sequester cuts you hate and just cut Social Security and Medicare.

That's like saying, instead of burning your whole house down, I'll just burn a few rooms and if you don't accept this deal, the entire economy will be destroyed. Oh, and don't even think about asking for additional revenue.

Capisce?

GOP Member Floats Ending Sequester In Exchange For Entitlement Changes
Posted: 10/03/2013 7:41 pm EDT | Updated: 10/04/2013 12:07 am EDT

WASHINGTON -- Despite the tough rhetoric from President Barack Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) about respective refusals to negotiate, there is talk that a way out of the government shutdown and debt ceiling deadline could include a bargain of sorts -- even if it isn't exactly grand.

One Republican lawmaker walked a group of reporters through how this might happen on Thursday afternoon, and said that he thinks a deal will be reached by the Oct. 17 deadline to raise the debt ceiling.

"I think we'll avoid default. I think we'll stumble toward a larger deal that will continue to narrow the deficit," said the lawmaker. "I don't think it will be as grand as the grand bargain."

In short, the GOP member, who spoke on the condition he not be quoted by name in order to speak more frankly, said during an hour talk that members of his party might be willing to vote to end some or all of the sequester, in exchange for changes to Social Security and Medicare.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/03/gop-sequester-entitlement_n_4039761.html