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   NebulousRikulau said, 3 months ago

   How long before somebody makes this a partisan issue?
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   braindead08 said, 3 months ago

   It would be awful if the Pentagon had to make do with even one fewer flag officer.
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   Respectful Troll said, 3 months ago

   Three congresses sworn in on 2009, 2011, and now 2013 have strove for the badge the young man in Mr. Holbert’s cartoon wants to achieve. The former two congresses were successful in their bipartisan efforts to make the Congress of the USA the most disrespected and least productive in US history according to numerous reports. The Congress for 2013 is well on its way to earning its own badge of shame under the watch of our current “scout master”. Mr. Obama ignores the lessons of Jefferson, Lincoln, Clinton, and other Presidents who invited opponents to dinners and socials in order to broaden the lines of communication and find compromise on legislation. Scouting, scandals and social issues aside, has been a great tool for teaching innovation, responsibility and teamwork. These characteristics are sorely lacking in our nation’s capital.
   Respectfully,
   C.
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   Gore Bane said, 3 months ago

   If it’s important, it’s simple. And if it’s simple, it’s easy to say. “Go ahead and sequester!”
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   Ms. Ima said, 3 months ago

   And… at the last second the dems will pass a bill full of pork and spending while kicking the can down the road to 2016.
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   DGF999 said, 3 months ago

   We’ll know soon whether or not there’ll be any REAL cuts (sequester) in the budget…
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   ARodney said, 3 months ago

   @HOWGOZIT

   Please. Obama has proposed a solution balanced in the Republicans favor, that gives 2/3 spending cuts, 1/3 closing tax loopholes. The Republicans have not passed or even proposed an alternative in this congress, they’ve been on vacation when they aren’t busy passing bills to ban abortion and punish the poor for being poor, and blocking cabinet members, appointees, and judges to keep government ineffecient. GOP incompetence will next lay off hundreds of air traffic controllers, because, you know, jobs.
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   Bruce4671 said, 3 months ago

   @ARodney

   What???
   
   http://budget.house.gov/fy2013prosperity/
   
   http://www.c-span.org/Events/House-Passes-FY2013-Budget-Bill/10737429451/
   
   http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2013/01/02/house-passes-senate-budget-bill-convincingly-we-have-a-tax-deal/
   
   http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/01/house-passes-no-budget-no-pay-extends-debt-limit/
   
   http://thomas.loc.gov/home/approp/app13.html
   
   Just some facts.
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   M Ster said, 3 months ago

   Bruce, this is an excerpt from one of your sources:
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   “Rep. Ryan has said that he will pay for these tax cuts by eliminating many of the loopholes in the current tax code that allow many higher-income families and businesses to pay a lower effective tax rate than the current upper limit of 35 percent.”
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   As you know, these same Republicans haven’t actually agreed to close any loopholes. That’s an old trick that both sides have played in the past- say that IF you do this, then I will to that later, and then it’s not done later.
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   Another excerpt:
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   The bill now moves to the Democratically-controlled Senate, where it is likely to fail in favor of the spending levels agreed to during last year’s debt ceiling debate."
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   If both sides argeed to something last year, why is the House moving the goal posts now? (The reason is that they don’t want to raise revenue, so they have to cut deeper to compensate. And that is not what the majority of Americans voted for last November.)
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    Mhic Dhu Ghaill said, 3 months ago

    @braindead08

    Mid level/career officers/ncos RIFed 1st, Never Flags.
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    Dycel said, 3 months ago

    @Bruce4671

    Please the Ryan gift to the rich budget again?
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/08/12/what-paul-ryans-budget-actually-cuts-and-by-how-much/
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    Again with the Ryan budget the repubby house has pass it how many times without bothering to fix the boondogels for the rich in it?
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    Another kick the can moment by the repubby house, since they only stopped paying themselves to May 2013 whats the point again?
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    Goes to point out the obvious the ryan budget has been voted on again and again since 2009, the inability to come to a partisan solution keeps the President from signing.
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    In short any budget that protects those who take VOC from the economy is going to be shot down.
    To quote A Einstein – Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
    Just more “Facts”
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    Dycel said, 3 months ago

    @ScottPM

    Ah another bus bunny addicted to the faux noise black hole bus’s exhaust pipe!
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    Bruce4671 said, 3 months ago

    @M Ster

    The statement from Arod:
    
    " The Republicans have not passed or even proposed an alternative in this congress,"
    
    It was not true. Regardless of what you think of the bills.
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    coraryan said, 3 months ago

    @Mr. King

    And just how are they in control of Congress? They control the House, but not the Senate. In case you don’t know, the House & the Senate combined are the Congress. You don’t seem very well informed.
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    coraryan said, 3 months ago

    Let the sequester happen. It was Obama’s idea in the first place. Now he wants to blame everyone else. As usual! This is the only way we will get spending cuts out of this administration. Go for it!
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