White House cancels tours, cites sequestration cuts

I Love America said:
Can you explain why the President cut immunizations to children by $28 million more in his budget than the sequester did? Hmmmm?

No? Didn't think so. Carry on.
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I'm getting tired of your lies. That wasn't Obama's budget, dipstick.

The White House today reacted to news that representations of President Obama’s budget had been voted down by the House and Senate by decrying the introduction of the amendments, by Republicans, as “gimmicks.”

“Gimmicks are not solutions,” White House press secretary Jay Carney emailed to ABC News. “The American people overwhelmingly support a balanced approach to our long-term budget challenges. That’s the approach the President supports. The sooner Republicans drop their intransigence and join the American people in supporting a balanced approach, the sooner Congress will be able to come together and reach a compromise.”

Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Miss., introduced a budget amendment representing the president’s budget request; the Sessions amendment was voted down 99-0. (You can read it HERE.)

A similar effort from Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-SC, was rejected in the House 414-0.

Sessions told reporters that it was “stunning” that no one voted for the version of the Obama budget he put forward. “A sitting president of the United States, seeking reelection, can’t lay out a plan that will gain a single vote in the House or Senate for the financial future of America,” he said. “It speaks volumes

While the Sessions and Mulvaney bills put forward the same topline numbers as those in the president’s budget, neither offered any specifics. The Sessions legislation was 56 pages long; actual budgets are closer to 2,000 pages long.

Thus, a White House official said, the Sessions proposal was a “shell that could be filled with a number of things that could hurt our economy and hurt the middle class,” a White House official said. “For example, rather than ending tax breaks for millionaires his budget could hit the revenue target by raising taxes on the middle class and rather than ending wasteful programs, his budget could hit its spending target with severe cuts to important programs.”

“This is the president’s budget,” said the top Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee, Sen. Kent Conrad of South Dakota, indicating the voluminous budget proposal President Obama offered. “This is what Sen. Sessions has presented as being the president’s budget,” he said, indicating the much slimmer document.

“I think it’s readily apparent there is a big difference between the president’s budget, which I hold in my hands, and what Sen. Sessions has presented as being the president’s budget. This is not the president’s budget. So, of course, we’re not going to support it. It’s not what the president proposed.”

The White House official said the Sessions and Mulvaney’s bills were mere GOP stunts to get Democrats on record opposing ‘the President’s budget’” as well as distracting from what the House Republican budget would do, which the official described as “protect(ing) massive tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires while making the middle class and seniors pay.”
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NOVA said:
Are you denying the sequester was Obama's idea and that he threatened to veto any attempt to shitcan it ?
Is that what you claiming ?
Spit it out bigmouth.................
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That is ABSOLUTELY what I am saying...you rolled out a HEAVILY EDITED soundbite and claimed it said someothing it didn't.

Here's the WHOLE clip:

"Now, the question right now is whether we can reduce the deficit in a way that helps the economy grow, that operates with a scalpel, not with a hatchet, and if not, whether Congress is willing to stick to the painful deal that we made in August for the automatic cuts. Already, some in Congress are trying to undo these automatic spending cuts.

My message to them is simple: No. I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending. There will be no easy off ramps on this one.

We need to keep the pressure up to compromise -- not turn off the pressure. The only way these spending cuts will not take place is if Congress gets back to work and agrees on a balanced plan to reduce the deficit by at least $1.2 trillion. That's exactly what they need to do. That's the job they promised to do. And they've still got a year to figure it out. [The White House, 11/21/11]"


What's that? You say FAUX News and hateful, partisan Righties made up some more bullshit about the President in their desperate attempt to humiliate him?

SAY IT AIN'T SO??

And there you ahve it folks...ONCE AGAIN Nova gets his ass PWNED bigtime!
 
Dr. Krieger said:
you're an idiot rana. This is completely minuscule and irrelevant. It's done so all the proles go "oh no I can't go to the white house now this sucks :("

It's the same thing towns do when a community votes against raising a schools budget. The first thing they'll cut are school lunches or bus programs, even though those things make up paltry parts of the budget. It's a spite cut, that doesn't accomplish anything real, other than to stick it to those that voted against them.
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That's not the argument connies were making about cutting teeny little govt. grants to Planned Parenthood. Then, every penny counted.
 
NOVA said:
Maybe Obama might to cut our 2 or 3 golf trips to Florida with taxpayers money.....that alone would save millions and
the tours could go on.....you should get a job like Monica had, sitting under Obamas desk....at least you could get paid for it.
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What a shock. Another rabid rightie who can't disagree with a position without adding a sexual slur. :mad:
 
We'll all be fine without the White House tour, entrance to national parks, etc., Suck it up. That's where he wants to cut? Oh yeah, and the military cuts too, fine. We'll live with them and bring more on...

as has been mentioned time and again, not real cuts, YET. Just reductions on projected increases.
 
ZappasGuitar said:
That is ABSOLUTELY what I am saying...you rolled out a HEAVILY EDITED soundbite and claimed it said someothing it didn't.

Here's the WHOLE clip:

"Now, the question right now is whether we can reduce the deficit in a way that helps the economy grow, that operates with a scalpel, not with a hatchet, and if not, whether Congress is willing to stick to the painful deal that we made in August for the automatic cuts. Already, some in Congress are trying to undo these automatic spending cuts.

My message to them is simple: No. I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending. There will be no easy off ramps on this one.

We need to keep the pressure up to compromise -- not turn off the pressure. The only way these spending cuts will not take place is if Congress gets back to work and agrees on a balanced plan to reduce the deficit by at least $1.2 trillion. That's exactly what they need to do. That's the job they promised to do. And they've still got a year to figure it out. [The White House, 11/21/11]"


What's that? You say FAUX News and hateful, partisan Righties made up some more bullshit about the President in their desperate attempt to humiliate him?

SAY IT AIN'T SO??

And there you ahve it folks...ONCE AGAIN Nova gets his ass PWNED bigtime!
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Once again you lie.....the whole clip doesn't change the fact that my post is absolutely factual.

"My message to them is simple: No. I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending. There will be no easy off ramps on this one'......OBAMA.'


Thats the simple fact of his big speech.....thats his threat and its undeniable that he made that threat....
Obama got his tax increase and won't budge on domestic spending....let HIM stick to the deal and match spending cuts with the tax increase already passed
and stop blaming everyone else as he constantly does.

he can't even get his own party to
vote for HIS BUDGET PROPOSALS.....TWICE....
 
NOVA said:
Once again you lie.....the whole clip doesn't change the fact that my post is absolutely factual.

"My message to them is simple: No. I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending. There will be no easy off ramps on this one'......OBAMA.'


Thats the simple fact of his big speech.....thats his threat and its undeniable that he made that threat....
Obama got his tax increase and won't budge on domestic spending....let HIM stick to the deal and match spending cuts with the tax increase already passed
and stop blaming everyone else as he constantly does.

he can't even get his own party to
vote for HIS BUDGET PROPOSALS.....TWICE....
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Zappa, Popeye's been brainwashed by Faux news, it is a loss cause?
 
NOVA said:
Once again you lie.....the whole clip doesn't change the fact that my post is absolutely factual.

"My message to them is simple: No. I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending. There will be no easy off ramps on this one'......OBAMA.'


Thats the simple fact of his big speech.....thats his threat and its undeniable that he made that threat....
Obama got his tax increase and won't budge on domestic spending....let HIM stick to the deal and match spending cuts with the tax increase already passed
and stop blaming everyone else as he constantly does.

he can't even get his own party to
vote for HIS BUDGET PROPOSALS.....TWICE....
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Another NOVA post...another bullshit lie.

It's funny how you only quoted a tiny 22 second part of Obama's speech, but left off the vital comment that comes immediately after the tiny portion you quoted and which coincidentally disproves your nonsense...actually it's not funny...it's typical Rightie hypocrisy.

...The only way these spending cuts will not take place is if Congress gets back to work and agrees on a balanced plan to reduce the deficit by at least $1.2 trillion.
 
????.....are you guys still denying reality?....Obama said his message was simple.....NO......now that "no" looks bad you're trying to make his message more complicated.....
 
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