G.O.P. Aims Smaller for Cuts to Budget

[Harry Hope]

Source: New York Times


January 4, 2011

G.O.P. Aims Smaller for Cuts to Budget

By JACKIE CALMES

WASHINGTON — Many people knowledgeable about the federal budget said House Republicans could not keep their campaign promise to cut $100 billion from domestic spending in a single year. Now it appears that Republicans agree.

As they prepare to take power on Wednesday, Republican leaders are scaling back that number by as much as half, aides say, because the current fiscal year, which began Oct. 1, will be nearly half over before spending cuts could become law.

While House Republicans were never expected to succeed in enacting cuts of that scale, given opposition in the Senate from the Democratic majority and some Republicans, and from President Obama, a House vote would put potentially vulnerable Republican lawmakers on record supporting deep reductions of up to 30 percent in education, research, law enforcement, transportation and more.

Now aides say that the $100 billion figure was hypothetical, and that the objective is to get annual spending for programs other than those for the military, veterans and domestic security back to the levels of 2008, before Democrats approved stimulus spending to end the recession.

Yet “A Pledge to America,” the manifesto House Republicans published last September, included the promise, “We will roll back government spending to pre-stimulus, pre-bailout levels, saving us at least $100 billion in the first year alone.”



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/05/us/politics/05fiscal.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

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uh huh...yup...sure

Harry

[neverforget]

1. Mr Boehner: where are the jobs?

[DCKit]

2. Was their small victory in the House election also hypothetical? nt

[high density]

3. Obama said the GOP wanted to put the country in reverse.

People didn't listen.

[tridim]

4. They must have a plan when it all fails.

Assuming it'll be media driven, Rove's ads, Democrats fault, etc. Propaganda out the wazoo.

I hope the teabaggers freak out, nice and loud.

[hootinholler]

5. We must hang that lie around their necks like the stinking dead albatros it is. n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Why am I reminded off....

the Contract with America...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America

Yep, Newt also scaled back like this.. as the pork would have to go away.

[HillbillyBob]

7. Oh yea the Contract on America, citizens, jobs......

I immediately went there, before I even finished reading the headline

[creeksneakers2]

8. An arrogant betrayal of their tea party base

This should be the top banner headline today. Instead, its being swept under the rug. Is anybody on the right aware of this proof they've been suckered again?