http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/budget-appropriations/239329-pre-election-deal-to-avert-sequestration-cuts-looks-unlikely
The rhetoric on pending cuts to the Pentagon intensified this week, but the chances of a pre-election deal to avert those spending reductions and others appear unlikely.Both parties are digging into their positions on the across-the-board cuts ahead of the November election, as the cuts are poised to play an increasingly visible role in congressional and the presidential campaigns.But all the messaging and campaigning on sequestration is quickly evaporating what little chance may have existed for a deal to avert some of the cuts before the election, something defense-minded lawmakers in both parties have called on Congress to do.Most Republicans and Democrats do not want the cuts through sequestration, roughly $500 billion to both defense and non-defense spending over the next decade, to occur. Yet, they have generated little movement in the past 11 months toward finding alternative deficit reduction since sequestration was included in the Budget Control Act last year as a punitive measure.The week’s events in Congress only entrenched the parties’ ideological disagreements.Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), who is in charge of retaining the Democrats’ majority in the upper chamber, suggested on Monday that Democrats should go over the “fiscal cliff” — letting the Bush-era tax rates expire and the sequestration cuts occur —if Republicans refuse to raise taxes on upper-income earners.“Unless Republicans end their commitment to protecting the rich above all else, our country is going to have to face the consequences of Republican intransigence,” Murray said at the Brookings Institution.Her position was echoed by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) this week, and President Obama has threatened to veto attempts to undo sequestration without a “balanced” approach to alternate deficit reduction.GOP leaders responded by accusing Democrats threatening to hold the economy hostage in order to raise taxes.
how many times can they use their transgressions as "the Pres. is doing it not us"? or better question those who by the elephant dung who long are you going to walk around in hip boots?
The GOP message was boosted with a new study from the Aerospace Industries Association that found 2 million jobs could be lost from sequestration in the defense and domestic sectors.Democrats didn’t take the attacks lying down, responding to the accusations by pointing out that many Republicans voted for the Budget Control Act that set sequestration in motion.They’ve argued that Republicans care more about protecting tax cuts for millionaires than about the cuts to domestic and defense spending.“The way to avoid the fiscal cliff is to do what we've been trying to do now for more than a year, and that is get a small amount of revenue by the way that the American people agree should happen,” Reid said Tuesday. “We have to have a balanced deal.”
all we need remember is since 2008 Nov. the right has declared war on this admin. and have not cooperated one iota to advance the country out of recession they created, that IMO speaks volumes to their credibility.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/100244184/Breaking-News-Congress-is-unpopular-Plus-fresh-poll-findings-about-Election-2012-health-care-and-more
already 87% know the bogus non representation we receive from the T-Party interest that claims they have no representation, since it would derive from them, they got one right.
see page two graph.
the right is banking on the Pres. caving unfortunately that bank is small enough to fail.
