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'Historic' deal to avoid government shutdown
Yahoo ^ | 4/8/11 | David Espo - ap

Posted on 04/08/2011 8:46:01 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

WASHINGTON – Perilously close to a government shutdown, President Barack Obama and congressional leaders forged agreement late Friday night on a deal to cut more than $37 billion in federal spending and avert the first closure in 15 years.

Obama hailed the deal as "the biggest annual spending cut in history," and House Speaker John Boehner said that over the next decade it would cut government spending by $500 billion.

"This is historic, what we've done," said the third man in the talks, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: avoid; budgetbattles; budgetdeal; government; historic; shutdown
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To: dila813
We should do this in less than 10 years or we will be at least a Japan and we could be a Portugal.


With these @ssclowns in charge you should be thinking Zimbabwe or Kampuchea...

41 posted on 04/08/2011 9:03:00 PM PDT by Nat Turner (I can see NOVEMBER 2012 from my house....)
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To: FrankR

Hey, name it the ‘Constitutional Party’ and I’m IN!!!


42 posted on 04/08/2011 9:03:02 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Obama's 2012 Slogan: "We've got what it takes, to take what you've got"!)
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To: Slump Tester

“What a bunch of PUSSIES! The GOP is worthless.”

My feelings exactly. There is going to be a world war.. and they are planning it! There is no way “they” can do what they are doing without plans in place for WWIII. Trillions upon trillions in debt, and printing trillions more is the standard MO for war. Our country has been taken over by communists. Let’s hope and pray our kids survive this.


43 posted on 04/08/2011 9:03:34 PM PDT by Kratos
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To: Kratos
A budget deal that trades babies in the womb for Planned Parenthood funding?

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44 posted on 04/08/2011 9:04:23 PM PDT by vox_freedom (America is being tested as never before in its history. May God help us.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Tea Party freshman keep chipping away


45 posted on 04/08/2011 9:05:39 PM PDT by UB355 (Slower traffic keep right)
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To: NormsRevenge
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People like Hfuckabee, Rove and others who are on news programs telling the republicans to cave in are the problem. With friends like that, we don't need enemies.

46 posted on 04/08/2011 9:05:50 PM PDT by dragonblustar
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To: NormsRevenge

Time for a third party. The Republicans have had their chance.


47 posted on 04/08/2011 9:05:50 PM PDT by Rocky (REPEAL IT!)
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To: NormsRevenge
Compromise at the last minute? What a drama queen.


48 posted on 04/08/2011 9:06:21 PM PDT by OCC
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To: Slump Tester

“What a bunch of PUSSIES! The GOP is worthless.”

They darn well better defund Planned Deathhood next year!!!


49 posted on 04/08/2011 9:06:29 PM PDT by chooseascreennamepat (I have a liberal arts degree, do you want fries with that?)
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To: screaminsunshine
The GOP is scamming you

Nonsense. They got cuts on what was a Dem budget.

Now let's move onto the Repub budget.

50 posted on 04/08/2011 9:06:29 PM PDT by Siena Dreaming
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To: P-Marlowe
Boner just handed a huge immoral victory to Satan and the democrats.

With the help of Michele Bachmann and Huckabee

51 posted on 04/08/2011 9:07:30 PM PDT by tsowellfan
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To: Siena Dreaming
Keep in mind we haven't had a real GOP budget yet.

You aren't going to get a "GOP budget". You are going to get budgets that Reid and Obama will sign without guns to their heads, which means Dem budgets lite.

I say the House should have passed the Tea Party budget and left town until thousands of unpaid soldiers showed the Senate Dems and Obambi a better way forward.
52 posted on 04/08/2011 9:07:54 PM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (REPEAL WASHINGTON! -- Islam Delenda Est! -- I Want Constantinople Back. -- Rumble thee forth.)
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To: Theodore R.

The American People see through your lies Democrats.

The gig is up.

You did not put any ideas for cuts (SEnate Democrats didn’t pass a bill.)

Why should any voter vote for President Obama or a Senate Democrat
in 2012?
We got 8.8% unemployment, no budget, no balance or primary balance,
no idea. Just SPEND SPEND SPEND. more taxes and mandates from
Obamacare.

DEMOCRATS.
THE PARTY OF NO IDEAS.

no idea. no ideas to cut waste, no GAO report, no printing, no cut to congress pay.

OUT OF TOUCH

OBAMA not engaged disinterested lazy passive even Mancin called
him out as not a leader
hey OBama your Kansas lost!!!

I guess Obammy had to wait until the NCAA tourney was over.

VOTE DEMOCRAT in 2012 —— Cause we gotta print more money

VOTE DEMOCRAT in 2012. cause we have to “invest”

like high speed rail

Win the Future,... WTF!!!!

WTF. WTF. WTF.

We smoked you out LOSER DEMOCRATS.


53 posted on 04/08/2011 9:08:15 PM PDT by preamble
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To: glock rocks

I had the privileged to visit Constitutional Hall for a third time last month. There stood George Washington’s chair with the sun in all it’s glory. I gazed upon it remembering Franklin’s famous words: “I have often looked at that behind the president without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting. But now I... know that it is a rising...sun.”

My heart is setting.


54 posted on 04/08/2011 9:09:02 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Obama's 2012 Slogan: "We've got what it takes, to take what you've got"!)
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To: sickoflibs
they are complaining about it at DU too.

LOL...DU is angry at the billions in cuts and they think Obama caved.

The GOP got cuts on what SHOULD have been a Dem budget...no mean feat.

Now let's move onto the GOP budget.

55 posted on 04/08/2011 9:09:31 PM PDT by Siena Dreaming
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To: NormsRevenge
Obama hailed the deal as "the biggest annual spending cut in history,"

And is it torqued his jaws to say it. Does everybody think John Boehner can run the table against The President and The Senate? Getting back the country is a journey, not a destination.

56 posted on 04/08/2011 9:09:42 PM PDT by oyez (The difference in genius and stupidity is that genius has limits.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Everyone should send a slice of toast to Boehner!


57 posted on 04/08/2011 9:09:57 PM PDT by chooseascreennamepat (I have a liberal arts degree, do you want fries with that?)
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To: NormsRevenge

Don’t want to hear Boner or a RINO complain of the Dems kicking the budget can down the road. The can obviously does not stop here. DC bunch of weasels and no guts save for a few.


58 posted on 04/08/2011 9:10:11 PM PDT by tflabo
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To: taxtruth

“House Speaker John Boehner said that over the next decade it would cut government spending by $500 billion.”

This is technically correct. We have cut from the absurdly high baseline the spendaholic Democrats created.

A compromise and a minor first step in the right direction, but the Big Govt ship of state will take a while to come to heel.

MANY fights to come.


59 posted on 04/08/2011 9:11:43 PM PDT by WOSG (Carpe Diem)
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To: NormsRevenge

obamma has added $4 Trillion dollars in 2 years and now is giving the American taxpayers back $37 billion dollars in spending cuts. Tell me how this is a great deal?


60 posted on 04/08/2011 9:12:43 PM PDT by rawhide
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