The vaunted Blue Dog
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Posted on 03/25/2009 8:37:23 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Barack Obama's pledges in peril as Blue Dogs take a bite at budget
Tom Baldwin in Washington
President Obama was huddled in talks yesterday with congressional Democrats over proposals that would pare his $3.6 trillion budget, raising question marks over how he would fund promises on healthcare, climate change and tax cuts.
Although the President was braced for ferocious opposition from Republicans, who warn that his spending plans will bankrupt America, he also faces growing hostility from a group of fiscally conservative Democrats alarmed by forecasts of a $9.3 trillion (£6.3 trillion) deficit over ten years.
Kent Conrad, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, outlined a spending plan on Tuesday that would eventually cut annual deficits by two thirds but severely weaken the President's ability to extend health coverage to the uninsured or introduce measures designed to combat global warming.
His proposal would eliminate the $250 billion set aside for future bank bailouts and assumes that the “making work pay” tax credit for low and middle-income households - a key pledge during the election campaign - will expire next year. While Mr Obama had sought a $634 billion “down-payment” for healthcare reform over the next decade, the Senate plan says that this must be paid for through savings elsewhere or tax increases at a later date.
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You mean the Democrat equivalent of "Moderate Muslims."? All talk no show folks?
Ping!
the democrat mafia will whip the blue dogs into line.
Like the old saying........You’ve got to spend money to make money. Problem is, only a few presses can keep up.
Is that similar to a flying pig ?
As Paul Ryan said the so-called blue dogs are just camouflaging it. It’s the same left-wing radical budget it was before.
Unfortunately, it will be about as ferocious as that blue poodle dog.
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