{"id":4523,"date":"2011-04-08T03:09:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T10:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4523"},"modified":"2011-04-08T03:09:02","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T10:09:02","slug":"republican-shutdown-not-about-the-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/08\/republican-shutdown-not-about-the-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Shutdown Not About the Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the Fascist Republic of Fitzwalkerstan, Fuhrer Walker used the budget as an excuse to gut workers\u2019 rights.  On a national lever, it\u2019s the same.  It\u2019s not about the budget.  Most people don\u2019t realize that the Democratic starting point for the current budget was not zero cuts.  It was Obama\u2019s original budget for this year, a $40 billion increase to cover increased costs and more stimulus spending.  We have no budget now only because Republicans in the Senate kept filibustering that budget.  So a equal compromise between Obama\u2019s increase and Boehner\u2019s initial position $30 billion in cuts is a modest $5 billion increase.  Republican claims that Democrats refuse to compromise ring hollow when the latest offer that Republicans have refused is $33 billion in cuts, $3 billion MORE than the Republican starting point.  That is not compromise.  That is cave-in! But it\u2019s not about the budget.  Fust like Fuhrer Walker national Republicans are using budget negotiations as a front to try to impose their dreaded social programs, part of which are defunding Planned Parenthood and forbidding the EPA from protecting the environment from criminal corporations.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"bipartisan_b2284\"The federal budget stalemate that stands to trigger a government shutdown shifted Thursday from a debate over spending cuts to a fight over the thorny policy issues of abortion and environmental regulation that have divided Democrats and Republicans for years.<\/p>\n

Facing a deadline of midnight Friday, negotiators worked day and night in an effort to strike a compromise as the policy demands loomed as a major new obstacle.<\/p>\n

For a third straight day, President Obama called House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to meetings at the White House. Afterward, Obama set a hard deadline for reaching an agreement, saying he wanted a deal from the congressional leadership overnight.<\/p>\n

"I expect an answer in the morning," Obama said, emerging from a late session at the White House. "My hope is that I’ll be able to announce to the American people, sometime relatively early in the day, that a shutdown has been averted."<\/p>\n

Underscoring the stakes involved, Obama canceled plans to visit Indiana on Friday so he could remain in Washington and oversee the talks.<\/p>\n

If the two sides near an agreement, another short-term measure could be instituted to allow the deal to be adopted.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the government continued preparations to halt government operations. In Baghdad, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates told troops that they may not receive their next paychecks because of the shutdown.<\/p>\n

For weeks, Republicans have insisted on reductions in federal spending. Conservative House members also have pushed for Republican policy priorities only indirectly related to the spending debate.<\/p>\n

"This debate used to be about saving money," Reid said earlier in the day. "That is no longer the case. The ‘tea party’ is trying to push through its extreme social agenda \u2014 issues that have nothing to do with funding the government."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Rachel Maddow and Rep. Chris Van Hollen discuss Republican desire for a shut down and attempts to shift blame.<\/font><\/p>\n

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The Democrats are at a disadvantage, because rank and file Republicans, deluded by party propaganda,  want their party to shut the country down.<\/font><\/p>\n

Ed Schultz covers Obama’s statement, and discusses Republican duplicity with Rep Jan Schakowsky and Sen. Bernie Sanders.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Republicans refuse to take YES for an answer, because they are not negotiating in good faith.  Obama and the Democrats need to grow a pair and say NO to Republican terror tactics.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the Fascist Republic of Fitzwalkerstan, Fuhrer Walker used the budget as an excuse to gut workers\u2019 rights.  On a national lever, it\u2019s the same.  It\u2019s not about the budget.  Most people don\u2019t realize that the Democratic starting point for the current budget was not zero cuts.  It was Obama\u2019s original budget for this year, […]<\/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-4523","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\/4523","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=4523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}