Republican's Wimping Out Over Spending Cuts

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

House GOP may seek short-term debt limit extension

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — House Republicans may seek a quick, short-term extension of the government's debt limit, a move that would avoid an immediate default by the Treasury as the party seeks to maximize leverage in negotiations over spending cuts with President Barack Obama this spring, officials said Thursday.

"All options are on the table as far as we're concerned," Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin said at a news conference during a three-day retreat of the rank and file. He said private discussions focused on how best to "achieve progress on controlling our deficits and controlling our debt."

Ryan declined to say how long an extension of the government's borrowing authority is under consideration, or what conditions might be attached. Obama has said repeatedly that he favors additional deficit savings yet he will not negotiate spending cuts as part of an agreement to raise the current $16.4 trillion debt limit. Some Republicans have suggested they may seek unspecified reforms rather than reductions, perhaps trying to force the Democratic-controlled Senate to approve a budget.

The debt limit is one of three deadlines that Congress and the administration will confront this spring. Across-the-board spending cuts begin in early March, and the government runs out of funding for many agencies and services on March 27. By contrast, there is no fixed date for raising the debt limit, since the Treasury has not yet notified Congress when it will exhaust all other measures to stay current with its bills.

Republicans gathered for their retreat at a secluded golf resort a two-hour-plus drive from the Capitol after an awkward beginning to the new Congress.

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[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

That's good. Let them pass cuts to the big three in the House next year.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

That's good. Let them pass cuts to the big three in the House next year.

####### does that mean?

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

####### does that mean?

If they don't have the balls to go bold in 2013, then surely they won't grow them in an election year. That means that there will be no significant cuts to the big three passed by the Republicans at all this Congress. Everything else already cut back and then they must obey their dear NRA masters who are insanely calling for new spending on cops in every school in the country. They're in a pickle. I enjoy watching that.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

If they don't have the balls to go bold in 2013, then surely they won't grow them in an election year. That means that there will be no significant cuts to the big three passed by the Republicans at all this Congress. Everything else already cut back and then they must obey their dear NRA masters who are insanely calling for new spending on cops in every school in the country. They're in a pickle. I enjoy watching that.

No, what are you calling the "Big Three"? Defense, Entitlements, what else?

Republican do pass things, just they go nowhere. The President proposes stuff. It dies, then gets resurrected in the Senate, and the House is left with a last minute take it, or leave it, pork filled and not solving the problem not withstanding.

One of the problems of not having the President and the House agree on a package before it reaches the Senate, is the House Majority has strict control over what can be put in the bill, and in the Senate, every bill is an all you can eat feeding trough for 100 Senators: Anything and everything can be added. So, sure, they can come up with a bill, but why would you let the Senate hold the House and the President hostage for not letting it go to conference?

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

No, what are you calling the "Big Three"? Defense, Entitlements, what else?

Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid. The big three. But you've got a point, should be the big four.

Republican do pass things, just they go nowhere.

That's because they haven't figured out that they keep losing national and statewide races. They don't have their guy in the White House and they don't have the majority in the Senate. And if it wasn't for gerrymandering, they would be the minority in the House too. Yet they continue to pass ####### as if people actually endorse their ideas. People don't endorse them at all.