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The Complete Guide To The GOPs Three-Year Campaign To Shut Down The Government
By Igor Volsky
As the nation races toward another budgetary crisis next month, Republican leaders are using the prospect of a government shutdown and the need to raise the nations debt ceiling as leverage points to undermine the Affordable Care Act just days before uninsured Americans are expected to sign up for health care coverage and extract additional cuts to government programs.
Past Congresses have used the debt ceiling as a vehicle for other legislative matters or nongermane amendments, but as the timeline below demonstrates, the Republicans that came to power after the 2010 midterm elections demanded something entirely different: they threatened to push the nation into default and shut down the government unless Congress approves deep structural budget cuts during a period of economic recession.
In November of 2010, GOP leaders informally polled the incoming freshman and were surprised to discover that all but four of them said they would vote against raising the ceiling, under any circumstances. This response was the result of what the Washington Post described as a natural outgrowth of a years-long effort by GOP recruiters to build a new majority with uncompromising anti-tax, anti-spending candidates and it effectively hamstrung Republican leaders from accepting any kind of budgetary compromise from the Obama administration. As a result, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) walked away from so-called grand bargains with the White House at least twice and have since adopted the same kind of uncompromising rhetoric thats known to animate political campaigns, not actual governance.
Though Congress has already enacted approximately $2.4 trillion in deficit reduction since the start of fiscal year 2011 72 percent of the savings have come through spending cuts the deficit has fallen to the lowest level since 2008, and inflation-adjusted discretionary spending is now below the final two fiscal years of the Bush administration, Republicans keep holding the debt ceiling and continuing resolution hostage, to achieve more cuts. Here is how we got here:
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http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/09/20/2649481/timeline/
By Igor Volsky
As the nation races toward another budgetary crisis next month, Republican leaders are using the prospect of a government shutdown and the need to raise the nations debt ceiling as leverage points to undermine the Affordable Care Act just days before uninsured Americans are expected to sign up for health care coverage and extract additional cuts to government programs.
Past Congresses have used the debt ceiling as a vehicle for other legislative matters or nongermane amendments, but as the timeline below demonstrates, the Republicans that came to power after the 2010 midterm elections demanded something entirely different: they threatened to push the nation into default and shut down the government unless Congress approves deep structural budget cuts during a period of economic recession.
In November of 2010, GOP leaders informally polled the incoming freshman and were surprised to discover that all but four of them said they would vote against raising the ceiling, under any circumstances. This response was the result of what the Washington Post described as a natural outgrowth of a years-long effort by GOP recruiters to build a new majority with uncompromising anti-tax, anti-spending candidates and it effectively hamstrung Republican leaders from accepting any kind of budgetary compromise from the Obama administration. As a result, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) walked away from so-called grand bargains with the White House at least twice and have since adopted the same kind of uncompromising rhetoric thats known to animate political campaigns, not actual governance.
Though Congress has already enacted approximately $2.4 trillion in deficit reduction since the start of fiscal year 2011 72 percent of the savings have come through spending cuts the deficit has fallen to the lowest level since 2008, and inflation-adjusted discretionary spending is now below the final two fiscal years of the Bush administration, Republicans keep holding the debt ceiling and continuing resolution hostage, to achieve more cuts. Here is how we got here:
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http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/09/20/2649481/timeline/
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The Complete Guide To The GOP’s Three-Year Campaign To Shut Down The Government (Original Post)
ProSense
Sep 2013
OP
BumRushDaShow
(129,311 posts)1. K&R
Cha
(297,503 posts)2. Idiots running the asylum.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)3. Kick! n/t
sheshe2
(83,846 posts)4. K&R nt
Laelth
(32,017 posts)5. Excellent essay. k&r for exposure. n/t
-Laelth