Posted on 07/18/2011 8:01:28 PM PDT by topher
News is breaking out all over Capitol Hill just now: The president is threatening to veto House GOP conservatives’ proposal to cut spending now, cap future spending, and balance the budget.
So, to be clear, to use that over-worn Obama phrase, the White House is against Cut, Cap and Balance.
Spread the word.
Call their bluff.
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WashTimes’ Emily Miller: “Obama just issued a veto threat for a bill that would give him a $2.4 trillion debt ceiling increase. So, who’s risking default now?”
Via Jamie Dupree: Read the White House veto threat. The fear-mongering intro:
The Administration strongly opposes H.R. 2560, the “Cut, Cap and Balance Act of 2011.” Neither setting arbitrary spending levels nor amending the Constitution is necessary to restore fiscal responsibility. Increasing the Federal debt limit, which is needed to avoid a Federal government default on its obligations and a severe blow to the economy, should not be conditioned on taking these actions. Instead of pursuing an empty political statement and unrealistic policy goals, it is necessary to move beyond politics as usual and find bipartisan common ground.The bill would undercut the Federal Government’s ability to meet its core commitments to seniors, middle-class families and the most vulnerable, while reducing our ability to invest in our future. H. R. 2560 would set unrealistic spending caps that could result in significant cuts to education, research and development, and other programs critical to growing our economy and winning the future. It could also lead to severe cuts in Medicare and Social Security, which are growing to accommodate the retirement of the baby boomers, and put at risk the retirement security for tens of millions of Americans.
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Related: The latest on the headache-inducing McConnell sellout from RedState:
Only in Washington are spending increases called spending cuts. They will actually grow discretionary spending at 2/3 rate of inflation (spending increase) but call it $1 trillion in cuts below the baseline of full inflation. About $200 billion come from cuts to health care providers, something we stop every year with the doc fix — not sure how they’ll keep this promise. And another $165 billion come from increases in government fees (some call tax increases), not spending cuts. So at the end of the day, we are left with a $2 billion FY2012 cut, and $55 billion in promised actual spending cuts through yet unspecified policy changes. A whopping $57 billion in cuts over a decade, or less than $6 billion a year.
Make him veto it... Make the losers in the Senate go on the record.
Hear! Hear!
Exactly!
BINGO!..We have a Winner!
Britt Hume and O’Reilly are discussing Michelle Malkin, Tea Party and the new Republicans in the House, that this wing party is intransigent and really don’t realize how serious things can become if they don’t allow any compromise on this debt thing. For crying out loud why is this so hard?
It’s relatively simple math isn’t it? Where is the risk in math certainties? Hume says that Obama would have to deny on his own recognizance paying on Social Security and military pay to Americans with the moneies that will be there, and he doesn’t believe Obama will dare do that. I wonder sometimes. If he wants us broke, McConnell is certainly giving Obama the opportunity to finish up on the succcessful job he has done so far.
You nailed it! MAKE THE KENYAN VETO THE FUTURE OF OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN. Maybe then a few more voters will understand what a pig Obama really is.
JUST DO IT!!
Threaten me. Big Man.
As a rather dainty, old-fashioned woman, it distresses me to awake in the morning light and behold two humongous brass ones where femininity should reign, knowing that the GOP, full of big strong men, ought to have a pair between them....
Call his bluff. Raise.
Raise by proposing the elimination of the Department of Energy, Department of Education, Department of Transportation and Department of Labor, for openers.
And if he reraises by threatening Social Security or Medicare, raise again.
0bamageddon
DITTO!!
The ball is in our court.
Are the balls as well?
As heard on Mark Levin’s show tonight:
The “Balance” portion of Cut, Cap and Balance is an ammendment. The President doesn’t get a veto on ammendments.
I have to wonder if Obama has actually ever read the Constitution.
EIEIO!!!
(enough is enough, impeach obama!!!)
KOOL.. let him do it.. at least he’s taken a stand on or against something..
You know except pure bull squirt rhetoric..
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