Wiseacre
Retired USAF Chief
Apparently the House repubs are going to dare Obama to let the sequestration cuts take effect, just as he did with the expiration of the Bush tax cuts. Cool. The worm has turned. This will be interesting, there are plenty of democrats who won't like the big spending cuts to defense, but others who will dance with joy. Can't wait to see how this is going to pan out.
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But a debt-limit fight is one many leading Republicans including former Speaker Newt Gingrich were loudly warning against. Gingrich and others have argued that Republicans should reserve what capital they have for negotiations they stand a greater chance of winning, including on legislation that funds the government, reduces spending, and unwinds the coming across-the-board cut known as sequestration.
And it appears clear that even some of the more conservative House Republicans are starting to agree.
We have no interest in shutting down government. We dont have to, said Republican Rep. John Fleming. The sequestration goes into effect by law and I dont think the president is going to want the kind of cuts any more than we do. So were on equal footing now.
House GOP Seeing Sequester, Not Debt Ceiling, As Fight to Pick - NationalJournal.com
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But a debt-limit fight is one many leading Republicans including former Speaker Newt Gingrich were loudly warning against. Gingrich and others have argued that Republicans should reserve what capital they have for negotiations they stand a greater chance of winning, including on legislation that funds the government, reduces spending, and unwinds the coming across-the-board cut known as sequestration.
And it appears clear that even some of the more conservative House Republicans are starting to agree.
We have no interest in shutting down government. We dont have to, said Republican Rep. John Fleming. The sequestration goes into effect by law and I dont think the president is going to want the kind of cuts any more than we do. So were on equal footing now.
House GOP Seeing Sequester, Not Debt Ceiling, As Fight to Pick - NationalJournal.com