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Pistarkle

(196 posts)
Wed Mar 6, 2013, 06:35 PM Mar 2013

House Republicans Run for the Hills After Bailing out on a Sequester Vote!

Before running for the hills on another vacation with no compromise to balance increased revenues with spending cuts in order to stop sequestration, House Speaker Boehner had the nerve to declare that “more revenue in order to reduce the federal deficit or to replace sequestration’s pending budget cuts is tantamount to stealing from the government”?

In addition to the fact that Boehner’s statement directly contradicts the facts stated in his own Congressional Budget Office report along with the Bi-Partisan Policy Center’s research proving that sequestration cuts “would not do much to address the government’s long term debt” - Boehner, his Tea Partied House Representatives and Tea Partied US Senators have been coasting on the government's dime for the past 4 years with little to no leadership, failures to vote, record-breaking vacations and record-breaking filibusters while putting in the “half the work”!

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