obama conceeds entitlements

[bcp]

President Barack Obama asked House Democrats on Thursday for the flexibility to make entitlement concessions to Republicans in upcoming discussions to reach a deal to reduce the deficit.

“What he basically said was that there's got to be a balanced deal,” Rep. Peter Welch of Vermont told The Hill after the meeting of the House Democratic Caucus. “And that if there's going to be revenues, then obviously there's going to be, in a Republican-controlled House, the need for us to consider some of the things we don't like. That was more or less it.”

Obama told the caucus that he would accept nothing less than a balanced approach to cutting the deficit that includes new tax revenues, several lawmakers at the session told The Hill.

But with Republicans in control of the House, no deal is possible, Obama said, unless Democrats are ready to sacrifice some entitlement programs.

“[Obama] recognizes that we are in tough times," Rep. Cedric Richmond of Louisiana told The Hill afterward. “But we have to act — and he expressed a willingness to compromise with the other side and urged that we compromise and be willing to.”

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[bcp]

look, I did an nhboy.
Total cut and past with no comment on my personal opinion

damn my mom has a lot of crap in her basement.

 

[mAlice]

Lip Service.

 

[Chris0nllyn]

Yet the Senate's budget has $1T in new taxes.....

 

[bcp]

Yet the Senate's budget has $1T in new taxes.....

obviously you have no insight into budgets.

that is actually a savings from the 3 trillion they wanted.
so instead of looking at it like 1 trillion in new spending, you should look at it like 2 trillion in cuts..
Feel better now that obamanomics have been explained?

actually, its not obamanomics, its how the government has been operating since the 50s, its why we have the debt we do.. but still

they saved 2 trillion!!!!!!

 

[Chris0nllyn]

obviously you have no insight into budgets.

that is actually a savings from the 3 trillion they wanted.
so instead of looking at it like 1 trillion in new spending, you should look at it like 2 trillion in cuts..
Feel better now that obamanomics have been explained?

actually, its not obamanomics, its how the government has been operating since the 50s, its why we have the debt we do.. but still

they saved 2 trillion!!!!!!

Ah, makes sense now....

 

[cwo_ghwebb]

Another faux story to make it appear Obama is reasonable. And to give him a pass on accepting responsibility.

As if anything is the Won's fault! He'll be blaming Bush until he croaks!