"Budget Deal Actually Cut Less Than $15 Billion"

[Paradoxical]

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2011/04/12/budget_deal_actually_cut_less_than_15_billion.html

The full extent of the budget deal reached late Friday did not become clear until today "after congressional aides worked all weekend and all day Monday to shape a detailed spending plan based on the framework that Obama and congressional leaders agreed to Friday," the Washington Post reports.

"In several cases, what look like large reductions are actually accounting gimmicks."

National Journal: "The specifics show that finding nearly $40 billion in cuts during the 2011 fiscal year required clever accounting and, for the White House, a willingness to concede on rhetoric to find gains on substance. For example, the final cuts in the deal are advertised as $38.5 billion less than was appropriated in 2010, but after removing rescissions, cuts to reserve funds and reductions in mandatory spending programs, discretionary spending will be reduced only by $14.7 billion."

[orwell]

1. But..but...

...the President got rolled and Boner's a genius.

I know this for a fact because I hear it everyday from the "liberal media"..

[bluestate10]

9. Yeah. And from the "base" on DU.

Now, can someone explain to me what a base is in a party that is as broad and unruly as the democratic party?

[TheBigotBasher]

2. Lol at unreccers.

After all facts to defend a Democratic President on a Democratic board are not the most popular of things.

[bluestate10]

10. The OP has been up for nearly three hours, nary a bite.

Guess facts that dispel bullshit are not good reading and do not cause progressive neck veins to explode out of angst over assumed betrayal. Or, may be another explanation. Seen any caravans heading to Canada or toward Mexico?

[silverweb]

3. Good.

One more anti-unrec and a

:kick:

[Kber]

7. "anti-unrec" - Funny!

[Paradoxical]

4. bump

[F Bastiat]

5. Budget Deal Actually Cut Less Than $0 Billion

FY 11 spending is and will be higher than FY 10 spending.

[gratuitous]

6. But high speed rail funds got the axe

So, we have that going for us. Trains are for latte-sipping, pinky-extending, elitist, liberal, wussies who are too cheap to buy a car, and certainly not a rugged, American-made muscle car that puts out horsepower by the stable and gulps gas by the gallon.

[emulatorloo]

8. Interesting, thanks for posting. Hope somebody posted this at FreeRepublic

Teabaggers are very unhappy and angry, this will make them very very very angry with Boehner.

[bluestate10]

11. Yep.

Teaslags would primary Boehner in a heartbeat and primary anyone that says a nice word about Boehner. But, I may turn Indie for long enough to vote in their primary, for Boehner. A good village idiot is becoming harder to find. Why lose one prematurely?

[bluestate10]

12. Another REC. nt

[happy feet]

13. Kick