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Subscribe to RSSDemocrats are searching for cuts, NBC’s Ken Strickland reports. A Democratic source tells Strickland that Republicans are "trying to confuse people" by suggesting Democrats object to any spending cuts.
Sen. Patty Murray, head of the DSCC, called the GOP proposal nothing more than a “Trojan Horse.”
The Hill notes that with Obama’s cuts and some others, they would be more than halfway between $0 and the $61 billion in cuts House Republicans wanted. But “some of Obama’s proposed cuts, such as one to low-income heating assistance, face steep opposition among Democrats.”
Senate Democrats in the fiscal “Gang of Six” want to separate out Social Security from the plans for entitlement reductions. Democrats believe it’s an easier fix and they may want to have it as a political issue heading into 2012. Might they announce something next week?
Rep. David Wu (D-OR) is facing calls to resign from Republicans in his state after reports of erratic behavior during his campaign. “In the weeks before the election, staffers staged two ‘interventions’ to try to get Wu admitted to a psychiatric hospital, according to Willamette Week,” per the New York Daily News.
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Democrats searching for budget cuts has the same credibility as OJ Simpson searching for his wife's killer on the golf course...
Democrats are searching for cuts, NBC’s Ken Strickland reports. A Democratic source tells Strickland that Republicans are "trying to confuse people" by suggesting Democrats object to any spending cuts.
No, you guys at MSNBC don't slant your articles...do you? Ever heard the term "spreading rumors"?
Trojan Horse? Here we go again. Seems to be the strategy du jour among republicans.
But where's safecracker when you need him? ;-)
Gee guys
So if the Democrats give up social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Education, Unions Rights make the Bush Tax cuts forever
Then the Republicans /Tea Party might make a deal and not shut down the Government
Of course it would be too much to ask them to stop spending on Tax Cuts for the Rich and Business
giving 53 Billion to Big Oil, or 660 Billion to Defense contractors, 140 Billion to Farmers, the list goes on and on
No their spending is OK even if its adds Billions to the DEBT their not concerned with that
Look they got their Tax Cuts, Boehner says they don't create Jobs that's the private sector, so the private sector got their Tax cuts , Billion dollar bonuses, Billion dollar wages, Billion dollar pensions
SO WHERE ARE THE JOBS WHY ARE THEY STILL SITTING ON 2 TRILLION
Oh that's right their number one goal is to make sure Obama is a one term President and one Party Rule Theirs