{"id":4507,"date":"2011-04-06T03:53:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T10:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4507"},"modified":"2011-04-06T03:53:02","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T10:53:02","slug":"republicans-poised-to-shut-down-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/06\/republicans-poised-to-shut-down-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Poised to Shut Down Government"},"content":{"rendered":"

Time after time I have gotten on my soapbox to say not to give in to Republican terrorists when they take hostages.  Every time we do, they take more hostages and make their ransom demands even more unreasonable.  This week Republicans have demonstrated that they have zero interest and intent to negotiate a deal.  In cravenly fashion  Obama caved in to their original reduction number.  Done deal?  Not al all.  The Republicans raised the number.<\/font><\/p>\n

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The House Republicans on Tuesday made it clear to anyone who had missed it that they are not interested in a deal<\/strong> on the current federal budget. In a meeting at the White House, they rejected a deal to get through the next six months. President Obama, silent for too long on this fight, emerged from the meeting to say that he would tolerate no more ideological gamesmanship. But the Republicans, if anything, only increased their demands, and a government shutdown seemed likely to begin on Friday. <\/p>\n

That the Republicans are not interested simply in reducing the deficit was made clear when the House Budget Committee chairman, Paul Ryan, released his budget plan for 2012<\/a> on the same day as the talks to finish the 2011 budget were falling apart. It was less a budget-balancing effort than a press release for the 2012 elections. Similarly, the party\u2019s refusal to accept Mr. Obama\u2019s overly generous<\/font> budget offer for this year makes clear that its leaders prefer a shutdown to abandoning their ideological crusade to abolish their least favorite government programs<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

If their goal was to reduce spending, they would have accepted the Democrats\u2019 offer to cut $33 billion out of the budget for the next six months \u2014 the same amount as Republican leaders had originally requested before Tea Party members forced them to double it earlier this year. As the president noted, that offer constitutes the largest cut to domestic discretionary spending in history\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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That\u2019s right!  After Obama caved-in to $33 billion in cuts, Agent Orange moved the goal posts and said he will not agree without unanimous Republican support in the House, including the Teabaggers.<\/font><\/p>\n

Ed Schultz covered this in two segments, first with Rep.Donna Edwards and Sen. Bernie Sanders.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

Next he discussed it with Katrina Vanden Heuvel.  She came on liker a hurricane.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

That\u2019s telling it like it is!<\/font><\/p>\n

Unless they pull out at cliffs edge, the shutdown begins Friday.  Expect Republicans to attempt to blame Democrats.  We can\u2019t allow that lie to gain traction.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Time after time I have gotten on my soapbox to say not to give in to Republican terrorists when they take hostages.  Every time we do, they take more hostages and make their ransom demands even more unreasonable.  This week Republicans have demonstrated that they have zero interest and intent to negotiate a deal.  In […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}