Breaking!! Senate GOP ponders ceding power to President Obama

sorry hit the wrong key and posted this too soon ...

WHAT CUTS NEED TO BE MADE?

It matters who decides this. We've already seen what Obama wants to cut. His first act, even before the deadline, was to release illegal aliens. Was that a cut that needed to be made?

No, the point of the sequester is that the cuts are predefined at least to some extent, and the good thing is that they will include cuts in government. If Obama gets to decide, government will remain bloated, Medicaid will be well protected, and maybe it's Social Security and Medicare that will get hurt more.

The point of them 'ceding power' is that they actually have no problem with the cuts Obama is going to make, or more to the point, they agree they have to be made, and this little maneuver allows them to maintain the theater of the 2-party system.
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Obama will do a better job himself than those hundreds of fools who can't make up their damn mind.

I don't think you guys are quite getting what this situation is about...

Huge cuts are going to have to occur.
Republicans want Obama to make cuts, but they have so far Boehner refused to actually outline *what* they actually want cut.

This is because to do so is political suicide. If the Republicans actually outlined what they wanted cut, they would later have to take the blame from constituents for making those cuts, and risk damaging their own future politics.

Obviously they want to cede this 'power' because what they are ceding is the power to get everyone pissed off at you for cutting their funding, getting them laid off, etc.

This way Obama makes the cuts that need to be made, and Republicans can then, farther down the road, take shots at him (and more importantly the Democrats in general) for making those cuts.

Moral of the story - Republican Senators primary concern is getting re-elected, and are unwilling to do their job - ie making tough decisions and being accountable for them.

this^ All these idiots are too worried about their own political future so they don't want to be the bearers of the bad news, so to speak. Whatever they decide to cut, they will lose some part of their constituency.

Obama will do a better job himself than those hundreds of fools who can't make up their damn mind.

It's a wise strategic move in my opinion. They know that shit is about to come unravelled. What better way to lay the blame on Obama than to give him full control?

It's a wise strategic move in my opinion. They know that shit is about to come unravelled. What better way to lay the blame on Obama than to give him full control?

I'm reading these posts where you people are talking about the sequester, and you don't even know what the fuck it means. It's really sad, and hilarious at the same time.

It's a wise strategic move in my opinion. They know that shit is about to come unravelled. What better way to lay the blame on Obama than to give him full control?

[link to www.politico.com]

here's your doom

Let's give him all the power.. smart idea

Days before the March 1 deadline, Senate Republicans are circulating a draft bill that would cancel $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts and instead turn over authority to President Barack Obama to achieve the same level of savings under a plan to be filed by March 8.

The five- page document, which has the tacit support of Senate GOP leaders, represents a remarkable shift for the party. Having railed against Senate Democrats for not passing a budget, Republicans are now proposing that Congress surrender an important piece of its Constitutional “power of the purse” for the last seven months of this fiscal year.

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Obama will do a better job himself than those hundreds of fools who can't make up their damn mind.

Congress is IRRELEVENT


They have been for decades; they don’t even read the bills they vote on. They pass bills they are told to pass by their master, the corporations and lobbyist and Israeli firsters.

They long ago gave up the right to print money (federal reserve now does it)


They already gave up the right to declare war as Bush, and Obama have gone to war without funding or approval. (but nothing was done about it)


Congress is as Irrelevant as the old Soviet Proletariat. They talk but have no power. They haven’t for years.


Get over it America, you do not live in a republic, just a good old fashioned dictatorship run by the shadow elites. Hell.... Obama is just a figurehead as well.

There is no republican or democrat anymore, only foreign powers dictating to the American people through the force of a gun.

Ameruka .... F@#k Yeah!

yep

LOL this is pro wrestling. They are on the same team. Figure it out.