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Democratic Congressman Destroys GOP Hypocrisy On Looming Budget Cuts
By Aviva Shen on Feb 10, 2013 at 11:09 am
On ABCs This Week Sunday morning, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) called out Tom Cole (R-OK) for his claim that President Obama is responsible for the automatic budget cuts set to go into effect if Congress cannot reach a budget deal by March. The so-called sequester includes steep defense cuts intended to motivate Republicans who refused to agree to any deal that included a tax increase in 2011.
When Cole tried to pin the cuts on Obama, Ellison reminded him that Cole himself voted for the Budget Control Act that created the sequester:
ELLISON: Well, Tom, the problem with saying this is the presidents idea is that you voted for the Budget Control Act. I voted against it. We wouldnt have ever been talking about the Budget Control Act but for your party refused to negotiate on the debt ceiling something that has been routinely increased as the country needed it. You used that occasion in 2011 August to basically say we are going to default on the countrys obligations or youre going to give us dramatic spending cuts. Thats how we got to the Budget Control Act.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/02/10/1567251/democratic-congressman-destroys-gop-hypocrisy-on-looming-budget-cuts/
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
gademocrat7
(10,659 posts)Trying to blame The President and anyone else except themselves. Thank you, Rep. Ellison.
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)Whether or not the President produces a budget is irrelevant, as he cannot spend money. Only Congress can do that, Mr. Cole. If you don't understand how to do your damn job, maybe you should find some other line of work.
upi402
(16,854 posts)Nothing can chink the Republican chutzpah armor. And no media challenges their bullshit - just airs it as spewed.
And the chickens watch Matlock while their KFC order is readied.