GOP May Give Obama Budget Cut Discretion

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Congressional Republicans are preparing to counter dire warnings from President Barack Obama about the impact of automatic budget cuts with a plan to give the administration more flexibility in instituting $85 billion in cuts, a proposal they say could protect the most vital programs while shifting more of the political fallout to the White House. The plan is vigorously opposed by the administration, which said Monday that it would do little to soften the blow to military and domestic programs. But it is also dividing Democrats, with lawmakers from the states facing the deepest cuts signaling they may be prepared to go along with Republicans if it means avoiding indiscriminate cuts to defense programs and social services.

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So the GOP plan is to abdicate their responsibility to high level public employees.

Fantastic!!!

#1 | Posted by Prolix247 at 2013-02-25 10:18 PM | Reply | Flag:

Congress created this chit sammich... they should just eat it and shut up.

Three more shopping days!

#2 | Posted by REDIAL at 2013-02-25 10:23 PM | Reply | Flag:

Obama agreed to these cuts. Now he is posturing that they are a disaster.
Can't have it both ways.
Why did he agree to them if he now does not? Do not expect the White House press corp to ask.

#3 | Posted by Diablo at 2013-02-25 10:59 PM | Reply | Flag:

I've said right along the rethugs should punt and hand the ball off to Obungler and the demorats since they always want to pin the tail on the elephant. Then when this thing collapses, the demorats won't be able to pull their famous blame game.

#4 | Posted by matsop at 2013-02-25 11:00 PM | Reply | Flag:

Be patient, the parasitical left will turn on their host if the repugs would stay out of their way.

#5 | Posted by Daniel at 2013-02-25 11:08 PM | Reply | Flag:

Does Barack Obama have an idea what the term "Chief Executive" actually means?

#6 | Posted by uglyblinddate at 2013-02-25 11:14 PM | Reply | Flag:

"Obama Adminstration Warns Sequester Will Cut $2 Million From Non-Existent Agency"
www.thegatewaypundit.com

Quote of the day:

Obama - "What I want to do is clear out the press so we can take some questions."

#7 | Posted by KBM at 2013-02-25 11:27 PM | Reply | Flag:

Congress created this chit sammich... they should just eat it and shut up.

Three more shopping days!

#8 | Posted by REDIAL at 2013-02-25 11:59 PM | Reply | Flag:

That's very clever of the GOP.

So when all the shrapnel starts to fly they can look smug and say "he did it, not us."

The president is right to ignore them.

The House likes to brag about controlling the purse strings. Fine ~ let's see them do it now.

#9 | Posted by Twinpac at 2013-02-26 02:27 AM | Reply | Flag:

Republicans better be careful here, if you give the President the power to decide where to cut they may find that he decides to cut mostly in their districts. Republicans are trying to play checkers again and they lose virtually every time. They continuously underestimate President Obama and look silly when the dust settles.

#10 | Posted by danni at 2013-02-26 07:06 AM | Reply | Flag:

Danni Obama is playing dirty pool but it's an old game and the repubs walked right into it.
School districts do it here - if the proposed budget is turned down, the first thing the school does is cut the most popular activities such as sports programs, knowing that the voters will then think twice about the budget and after the revote, the school gets what they wanted in the first place.

#11 | Posted by phesterOBoyle at 2013-02-26 07:35 AM | Reply | Flag:

"Danni Obama is playing dirty pool but it's an old game and the repubs walked right into it."

Any dirty pool he plays was taught to him by the filthy right wing. When one side makes their primary objective for four years to prevent the President from being reelected and not to help the economy to recover they have no right to complain about anything he does in his attempts to do the people's business. Come on, someone has to actually try to fix the economy and we know it won't be the unpatriotic, party first Republicans.

#12 | Posted by danni at 2013-02-26 08:01 AM | Reply | Flag:

Hopefully there are at leasta couple of people out there working on a plan to operate with a smaller budget, rather than just looking for someone to blasme for having a smaller budget in the first place.

I expect everyone is just expecting the sequester to go away, and it probably will, but the pragmatic thing to do would be to prepare for it.

#13 | Posted by REDIAL at 2013-02-26 08:38 AM | Reply | Flag:

#8 It appears the WH created this mess:

www.washingtonpost.com

newsbusters.org

#14 | Posted by HeuristicGratis at 2013-02-26 08:58 AM | Reply | Flag:

So the GOP plan is to abdicate their responsibility to high level public employees.

Fantastic!!!

#1 | Posted by Prolix247

You expect leadership from the GOP? Heck, grabbing a couple of schmos off the street in Dubuque would get you better leaders then Boner, Lyin'ryan and Can'tor are.

But yeah, let the WH take care of it. Since GOPpers are always whining about the deficit, their districts can take the hits and they can brag about saving money.

#15 | Posted by northguy3 at 2013-02-26 09:04 AM | Reply | Flag:

Does Barack Obama have an idea what the term "Chief Executive" actually means?

Do you understand what the term separation of powers means? Congress controls spending. All the president can do is make proposals and threaten vetoes.

#16 | Posted by rcade at 2013-02-26 10:14 AM | Reply | Flag:

"It appears the WH created this mess..."

The sequester was created as an incentive for Congress do do their jobs.

They chose not to, so now they face the unplesant consequences.

Pretty simple.

#17 | Posted by REDIAL at 2013-02-26 10:17 AM | Reply | Flag:

Re #8
I'm looking out the window. Dont see no nekked people yet. I'll believe this is the end of the world when everyone starts dancing nekked in the streets.

#18 | Posted by donnerboy at 2013-02-26 10:31 AM | Reply | Flag:

Draconian cuts...LOL
If you think this is bad, wait until the real, meaningful cuts have to be made. Listening to our overlords whine, cry and threaten is akin to what a methadone patient would do if the doctor prescribes a progressively lower dose.

It's like the thread a couple of days ago was talking about. No one buys the whole sky is falling BS anymore. The Gummit has over played this "end of life as we know it" threat almost as much as the Left has over played the race card. Mark my words, the cuts coming in March wont have any effect on the extreme mass majority of Americans and two months later, no one will remember it ever happened...excluding the loyal partisan political soldiers, of course. The only people who the overloads are really worried about are they, the elected officials. The public loves you when you give, they hate you when you take away.

#19 | Posted by libertarian_gi at 2013-02-26 10:41 AM | Reply | Flag:

"Any dirty pool he plays was taught to him by the filthy right wing." - Danni

It was taught back in 1969, called the Washinton Monument Syndrome, or Firemen First.
old.nationalreview.com

The sequester was created as an incentive for Congress do do their jobs.
They chose not to, so now they face the unplesant consequences.
Pretty simple.
#17 | Posted by REDIAL

You can't be serious? Why were Obama and Bohner getting together to create the "GrandBargain"... you know if the WH doesn't care how it gets done....

#20 | Posted by AndreaMackris at 2013-02-26 10:53 AM | Reply | Flag:

Cute. Obama whines about how the sequester cuts are allocated, but doesn't want the power to change the allocation.

Our entire federal government is a ridiculous farce.

#21 | Posted by JOE at 2013-02-26 11:31 AM | Reply | Flag:

Do you understand what the term separation of powers means? Congress controls spending. All the president can do is make proposals and threaten vetoes.

#16 | POSTED BY RCADE AT 2013-02-26 10:14 AM

So does that mean his executive order to not deport illegals is not constitutional.

#22 | Posted by T_Man at 2013-02-26 11:34 AM | Reply | Flag:

Do you understand what the term separation of powers means? Congress controls spending. All the president can do is make proposals and threaten vetoes.

#16 | Posted by rcade

An explanation rarely forthcoming during our Libyan adventures when our Constitutional Professor-in-Chief ignored the War Powers Act.

Not a lot of libbies quoting the Constitution then. Yes, Congress sets spending limits, and just did. But they can authorize the executive to spend accordingly. Monies are budgeted to agencies all the time that aren't spent; that's not a violation of the law.

#23 | Posted by uglyblinddate at 2013-02-26 11:38 AM | Reply | Flag:

A political abdication of responsibility by the GOP? I can see how in the short term this might be appealing. But after the initial wave of misery passes,I don't think Congress ceding this much additional financial power to the POTUS will be viewed as a good development.

#24 | Posted by moder8 at 2013-02-26 11:45 AM | Reply | Flag:

So does that mean his executive order to not deport illegals is not constitutional.

Executive orders affect how an existing law is implemented. The executive has the authority to implement laws. When an order goes over the boundaries of a law, the courts or Congress can respond to that.

#25 | Posted by rcade at 2013-02-26 12:10 PM | Reply | Flag:

An explanation rarely forthcoming during our Libyan adventures when our Constitutional Professor-in-Chief ignored the War Powers Act.

The president had responsibilities under the treaties we entered into with the other NATO countries. They didn't override the War Powers Act, but the situation wasn't as simple as you're making it sound.

#26 | Posted by rcade at 2013-02-26 12:11 PM | Reply | Flag:

I look forward to Obama cutting every dollar of fed spending flowing to the "we don't need no gubmint" red states.

#27 | Posted by censored at 2013-02-26 12:45 PM | Reply | Flag:

#24 | Posted by moder8 at 2013-02-26 11:45 AM | Reply

It's great for a number of reasons:

1.End of the blame game
2.Obama for the first time in his life would have to lead and accept responsibility/accountability. A narcissist hates this.
3.For the first time in 4 years, transparency won't be a word but an action.
4.It would graphically show the emperor has no clothes.

#28 | Posted by matsop at 2013-02-26 12:58 PM | Reply | Flag:

"You can't be serious? Why were Obama and Bohner getting together to create the "GrandBargain"... you know if the WH doesn't care how it gets done...."
#20 | Posted by AndreaMackris

I'm sure they do care how it gets done.

That doesn't change the fact that the reason the sequester is coming is because Congress, and that's both sides of both houses, failed to resolve the issue last year.

They kicked it down the road in January but they didn't kick it far enough.

I'm sure they will kick it harder this time. Either that or suck up some spending cuts, but they won't ever do that.

#29 | Posted by REDIAL at 2013-02-26 01:00 PM | Reply | Flag:

This "cut" is 1/10th of 1% of the spending for this year. Obama is just making himself look like a complete idiot and everyone claiming th world is going to change if they find the loose change to pay for this.

#30 | Posted by zack991 at 2013-02-26 01:14 PM | Reply | Flag:

Also did you hear Obamas pay will not be effected at all if this goes through, feel free to read it for yourself, he made sure to exempt himself.

#31 | Posted by zack991 at 2013-02-26 01:16 PM | Reply | Flag:

The sequester was created as an incentive for Congress do do their jobs.

Actually, the idiot GOPpers supported it because their level of delusion reached the point where they actually believed Etchy was going to win and they'd be able to tell the WH what to do.

Also did you hear Obamas pay will not be effected at all

How much is Boner's getting cut?

An explanation rarely forthcoming during our Libyan adventures when our Constitutional Professor-in-Chief ignored the War Powers Act.

Not a lot of libbies quoting the Constitution then.
#23 | Posted by uglyblinddate

The WPA is unconstitutional. Which is why the most radical righty didn't go to court over Libyia.If you ant to argue that Libya was as unconstitutional as VN, Iraq1 and 2, Herbie invading Somolia, Reagan invading Beirut and Grenada, etc., I won't argue.

#32 | Posted by northguy3 at 2013-02-26 01:54 PM | Reply | Flag:

And while Obama is indeed preaching gloom and doom, so are the GOPpers. Apparently al queda will set up a Caliphinate in Georgia 5 minutes after the Pentagon budget is reduced.

#33 | Posted by northguy3 at 2013-02-26 01:57 PM | Reply | Flag:

It's great for a number of reasons:

matsy, what planet do you live on.

The blame game will go on as you righties continue to howl about the defense budget cuts your party voted for.

If you don't think Obama can lead, you've been lost in Cheboygan for the last 4 years. Obamacare, the Stimulus, multiple GOP cave-ins on financial matters?

You miss all those?

As for the Emperor having no clothes, see above.

#34 | Posted by northguy3 at 2013-02-26 02:00 PM | Reply | Flag:

let the cuts kick in. Once Luxemburg doesn't invade America, even conservatives might get the idea that spending more on defense than the rest of the planet isn't necessary. And all those rural Americans who vote for Republicans and farmwelfare, why b1tching about gummint spending can join the capitalist world.

#35 | Posted by northguy3 at 2013-02-26 02:04 PM | Reply | Flag:

"...set up a Caliphinate in Georgia 5 minutes after the Pentagon budget is reduced."

Apparently that is because the military half of the cuts is waaaay bigger than the non-military half.

#36 | Posted by REDIAL at 2013-02-26 02:04 PM | Reply | Flag:

Why were Obama and Bohner getting together to create the "GrandBargain"... you know if the WH doesn't care how it gets done....

#20 | Posted by AndreaMackris

Mostly because the tea baggers running his party hadn't told Boner not to talk to Obama or do anything to fix the economy.

#37 | Posted by northguy3 at 2013-02-26 03:19 PM | Reply | Flag:

Listening to Obama read the exact same speech over and over again around the country...days on end gets old.

BTW:

www.thelookingspoon.com

#38 | Posted by KBM at 2013-02-26 09:09 PM | Reply | Flag:

Listening to Obama read the exact same speech over and over again around the country...days on end gets old.

So quit stalking him around the country. And I'm assuming Obama must be dragging the same audience around, otherwise how could they hear the same speech over and over, KBM?

You really gotta quit living in the rightwing moonbat blogosphere.

#39 | Posted by northguy3 at 2013-02-26 09:34 PM | Reply | Flag:

If they do this Obama better make sure every adult in America knows they gave him this power.

#40 | Posted by Tor at 2013-02-26 09:42 PM | Reply | Flag:

Maybe the Dr left missed the Obama enemies list as quoted by Valerie Jarrett. He's already on record as the most vindictive president of all time. And the left cheers that fact.

Go ahead let him cut. Let him cut his enemies. See how happy it makes the left, to prove how unamerican they truly are!

#41 | Posted by DavetheWave at 2013-02-27 01:08 PM | Reply | Flag:

In other words, Obama is no leader, he's a divider.

#42 | Posted by DavetheWave at 2013-02-27 01:08 PM | Reply | Flag:

....
....if they do transfer these powers to Obama, the first thing he should do is reduce congressional salaries, as they are not doing the job they are being paid for .......
...
....then he should have the heating turned off in the reps' offices ....

#43 | Posted by skizziks at 2013-02-27 02:03 PM | Reply | Flag:

Maybe the Dr left missed the Obama enemies list as quoted by Valerie Jarrett.
#41 | Posted by DavetheWave

....that quote has been proven to be a fake .... the quote was made up, and then repeated by Beck as if it were real .....
..
... don't repeat lies ....you only damage your own credibility....

#44 | Posted by skizziks at 2013-02-27 02:06 PM | Reply | Flag:

Here Dave ....

www.secularnewsdaily.com

Now don't do it again.

#45 | Posted by skizziks at 2013-02-27 02:08 PM | Reply | Flag:

an anonymous source supposedly within the Obama campaign supposedly overheard a representative from Jarrett's office make this statement and attributed it to Jarrett herself; it was then passed along to some pseudonymous source named "Wall Street Insider" who then forwarded it to The Ulsterman Report … and it eventually ended up on Glenn Beck's radio program where the quote was treated as entirely legitimate

Wing ding Nooze at it's finest.

#46 | Posted by 726 at 2013-02-27 02:45 PM | Reply | Flag:

After all the fear mongering we now hear of the dire cut of $85 billion (which is smaller than the increase from 2012 to 2013) is actually only $44 billion for 2013. LMAO!

#47 | Posted by KBM at 2013-02-28 12:13 AM | Reply | Flag: