GOP mocks Obama budget, House weighs spending cuts

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By ALAN FRAM
Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans on Tuesday disparaged President Barack Obama's proposed $3.7 trillion budget for next year for taking a pass on tackling long-term deficits by not calling for structural changes in big-ticket entitlement programs for the elderly.

"In our nation's most pressing fiscal challenges, the president has abdicated his leadership role," said House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis. "When his own commission put forward a set of fundamental entitlement and tax reforms ... he ignored them."

Obama told a news conference that the budget he sent Congress will help meet his goal of cutting the deficit in half by the end of his first term. He said he looked forward to negotiations with Republicans in coming months on how to fix Social Security and Medicare.

"This is not a matter of, 'you go first, I go first,' " he said. "It's a matter of everybody having a serious conversation about where we want to go and then ultimately getting in that boat at the same time so it doesn't tip over."

House Republicans, meanwhile were eager to launch a weeklong debate on their own
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Keep on trying to kick that bipartisan football Charlie BrownObama, it isn't getting you anywhere. Those fuckers don't want to play nice and you're making yourself look like a fool to keep trying...

[SpiralHawk]

1. Republicons = Nattering Nabobs of Negativity

They have SHIT to offer. Nada. Nothing. No ideas.

"Whine, whine, whine." - Republicon FAIL Freaks (R)

[Ghost in the Machine]

2. Exactly! RepubliCONS = The Party of NO

:hi:

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3. kick