Posted on 07/19/2011 7:34:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Following the president’s veto threat this morning, senior White House officials launched a full-on assault against the Republican “Cut, Cap and Balance Act” this afternoon, describing it as “extreme, radical, and unprecedented.”
On a conference call with reporters this afternoon, White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer said the legislation “essentially enshrines into the constitution the Ryan plan on steroids.”
“Unless House Republicans are willing to raise revenues, significant revenues, something they have refused to do, it would require much deeper spending cuts than in the Ryan plan. This would result in even more devastating cuts to clean energy, education and health care for children and people with disabilities,” Pfeiffer said.
In addition to cutting spending in fiscal 2012 by $111 billion and capping future spending at 19.9 percent of GDP, the bill would require that a Balanced Budget Amendment be approved by Congress and sent to the states in order for the debt ceiling to be increased.
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Another perhaps more accurate name for the process is upping the ante. You had your chance to accept the Ryan deal. You refused. The cost of playing is now more expensive.
Better get in while you can.
Thanks libs. I like the sound of that!
Thanks for putting it so succinctly.
I always thought the Ryan plan was a little weak.
Hopefully, this will galvanize conservatives around the CC&B - the second best plan.
Best plan is to NOT raise the debt ceiling and instead cut spending 45% immediately.
The socialist White House is bound and determined to not reduce spending. The taxpayers’ wishes do not matter to this fascist cabal. The president and Cabinet and Czars are dictatorial. They have formed their own socialist party and they intend to answer only to themselves. They have insulted the courts, defied congress, and defied the voters and taxpayers.
the GOP needs to respond with the Gay Men’s Penis Study and all other forms of ridiculous wasteful spending they can find.
problem is the GOP will cower like little girls and not stand up for this bill, as they didn’t for Ryan’s bill...
Every single RAT criticizes, complains and b*tches about PUB plans. Yet, they have proposed nothing except higher taxes, more spending and continued destruction.
Where are the Tea Party Reps and Sens going to end this? I haven’t heard one word from Rand Paul, who started out so well. It is well past time for the newly elected people to start yelling back. WHERE THE HELL IS YOUR PLAN?
And there’s a problem with that?????
Good!
This and the veto threat illustrate how desperate they are that they will end up with the hot potato.
(it was tempting to add an “e” to potato, but too many freepers wouldn’t get it)
Unless House Republicans are willing to raise revenues, significant revenues, something they have refused to do,
These sorry sacks of shit can not even say the word taxes.
“Raise revenues”. Just pathetic.......
Just say NO to increasing our children’s debt!
Has McConnell raised the white flag yet?
Pray for America
according to donna...
donnabrazile Donna Brazile
President Obama has put forward a balanced approach to both spending & revenues. It’s all on the table, but the GOP wants limited cuts only.
God I couldn’t believe the homosexual penis study. The study reported that those with smaller penises had more “issues”, shall we say.
And while there is a fascination in the gay community with the functions of a penis, the key question is why in the sam hill is taxpayer money paying for this sort of study???????
Are 0BAMA and Democrats really negotiating in good faith? It seems that all Democrats and Obama do is criticize and shoot down any proposal Republicans come up with.
The Ryan plan was harsly criticized at the outset. That plan could have been a good starting point for serious discussion of the kinds of actions needed to balance a budget which is trillions out of balance. But instead, the Democrats just shoot it down, say that we’re pushing Grandma off a cliff, and have no proposals of their own.
Yep, it’s like a poker game in which we’re upping the ante. Obama told Eric Cantor not to call his bluff. It will be enlightening when everybody has to show their cards won’t it?????
Not only that, but the Paul Ryan plan has been passed by the house for the 2012 budget and the senate and president are acting like it doesn’t exist. When they are not lying about it’s content, that is.
It's all insanity.
“This would result in even more devastating cuts to clean energy,
WHICH IS NOT THE JOB OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
“education
WHICH IS NOT THE JOB OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
“and health care for children and people with disabilities.”
WHICH IS NOT THE JOB OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
Their rhetoric is so stale, so tired.
We've had a budget passed from the House, we've had the Ryan plan, we've got Cut, Cap & Balance, we've got Coburn's plan... where is any Democrat plan embodied in passable legislation?
Sorry, Danny boy, but 19.9% of GDP is huge. If the federal government can't survive on $1 for every $5 dollars in the economy, it's just WAY TOO BIG.
$111 billion off a $1,500 billion deficit is hardly extreme or radical.
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