Showman Obama To Meet With Congressional Leaders Friday
Today in Washington - Feb. 27, 2013:
This morning the Senate began debate on the nomination of Jack Lew to be Secretary of the Treasury. They then confirmed Lew 71-26. Last night, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) filed cloture on the motion to proceed to S. 388, Democrats’ bill to replace the sequester that’s loaded with tax hikes. A vote on cloture on the motion to proceed is expected tomorrow.
Yesterday, the Senate voted 58-41 to confirm former Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska to be Secretary of Defense.
The House is in session but reportable votes are nil. House leaders have been busy trying to get the public to understand that it is the President and the Senate Democrat leaders who are blocking reasoned meaningful spending cuts verses the sequester originally promoted by President Obama. They were also promoting the following infographic addressing that --Spending Is The Problem:
What Could You Do With Your $52K Share of the National Debt? 
Speaking on the Senate floor this morning, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell expressed his exasperation with Democrats’ approach to sequestration: “For months now, I’ve been coming to the floor to urge my colleagues on the other side to help us replace the President’s sequester proposal. Yet here we are, with just two days to go until the cuts hit, and the Democrats who control Washington still haven’t put forward a serious bipartisan plan; not the President and not his allies in Congress. They’ve preferred to keep it alive as a political issue instead. Now, less than 48 hours before the clock runs out, all they’ve offered is a gimmicky tax hike that’s designed to fail. I hope they’re not expecting a round of applause for this particular act of political bravery. Is it any wonder the American people are so fed up with Washington?”
The Washington Post now reports, “President Barack Obama will meet Friday with the top leaders in the House and Senate, several hours past the deadline for averting automatic budget cuts, to discuss how to proceed on divisive tax-and-spend issues. Because the meeting is set to take place well after Friday's deadline for the so-called sequester to kick in, it appears both sides are operating under an assumption that a deal to avert the cuts ahead of the deadline is now out of the question.”
In other words, despite their rhetoric, the president and Senate Democrats have done nothing about the sequester for over a year, have proposed no ideas to cut the same amount of money in a smarter way, and are now asking to meet only after the cuts they say they dislike so much will have begun.
Quoting McConnell again, “It’s absurd to think that the government cannot get by with a little more than a 2 percent reduction in spending when every working American had to figure out how to make due with 2 percent less in their paychecks last month. . . . [M]ost Americans think Washington’s spending problem should be addressed by cutting spending. So when the President goes off to campaign for higher taxes instead of working with Republicans to replace the sequester with smarter cuts and when Senate Democrats put forward tax-hike gimmicks instead of negotiating serious spending-cut solutions, Americans feel like they’re not being listened to. And they have reason to be upset.”
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This morning the Senate began debate on the nomination of Jack Lew to be Secretary of the Treasury. They then confirmed Lew 71-26. Last night, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) filed cloture on the motion to proceed to S. 388, Democrats’ bill to replace the sequester that’s loaded with tax hikes. A vote on cloture on the motion to proceed is expected tomorrow.
Yesterday, the Senate voted 58-41 to confirm former Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska to be Secretary of Defense.
The House is in session but reportable votes are nil. House leaders have been busy trying to get the public to understand that it is the President and the Senate Democrat leaders who are blocking reasoned meaningful spending cuts verses the sequester originally promoted by President Obama. They were also promoting the following infographic addressing that --
What Could You Do With Your $52K Share of the National Debt?
The Washington Post now reports, “President Barack Obama will meet Friday with the top leaders in the House and Senate, several hours past the deadline for averting automatic budget cuts, to discuss how to proceed on divisive tax-and-spend issues. Because the meeting is set to take place well after Friday's deadline for the so-called sequester to kick in, it appears both sides are operating under an assumption that a deal to avert the cuts ahead of the deadline is now out of the question.”
In other words, despite their rhetoric, the president and Senate Democrats have done nothing about the sequester for over a year, have proposed no ideas to cut the same amount of money in a smarter way, and are now asking to meet only after the cuts they say they dislike so much will have begun.
Quoting McConnell again, “It’s absurd to think that the government cannot get by with a little more than a 2 percent reduction in spending when every working American had to figure out how to make due with 2 percent less in their paychecks last month. . . . [M]ost Americans think Washington’s spending problem should be addressed by cutting spending. So when the President goes off to campaign for higher taxes instead of working with Republicans to replace the sequester with smarter cuts and when Senate Democrats put forward tax-hike gimmicks instead of negotiating serious spending-cut solutions, Americans feel like they’re not being listened to. And they have reason to be upset.”
Tags: spending, government waste, sequestration, the economy, President Obama, Senate Democrats, confirmation, Chuck Hagel, Secretary of DOD, Jack Lew, Secretary of Treasury To share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service. Thanks!
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