Kyl tries to prevent impending defense cuts...
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what is wrong with this picture? both sides can not work together and if they do not come to an agreement by wednesday these cuts automatically take effect in 2013. so defense will be cut by 1/2 a trillion bucks, and jon kyl wants to prevent that from happening now. listen, you want cuts, you have to stick by the paramaters of the deal, or else why are they even going through the drama of this "stupidcommittee"?? defense spending is one of the main reasons we are in this mess to begin with, and if everything else is going to be cut, so should defense spending...
Super Committee Member Jon Kyl Turns Eye Towards Saving Pentagon From Trigger Cuts
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/2 ... 03821.html
WASHINGTON -- Senator Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) a member of the congressional super committee charged with devising a plan to shrink the national debt, pledged on Sunday to find a way to limit the defense budget cuts that would be triggered by that committee's likely failure.
"I can't imagine that knowing of the importance of national defense that both Republicans and Democrats wouldn't find a way to work through that process so that we still get the $1.2 trillion in cuts but it doesn’t all fall on defense as [Defense] Secretary [Leon] Panetta pointed out," Kyl said on "Meet the Press." "I think there is a way to avoid that if there is good will on both sides. And again I think when the reality sets in even those Democrat friends who would like to see more defense cuts ... will find ways to work around that."
As it stands now, the super committee's failure to reach a deal by Wednesday would result in automatic cuts totaling $1.2 trillion, half of which would come from defense. But because those cuts won't actually happen until 2013, Congress has the capacity to alter or even prevent them fully.
Kyl, who is retiring from Congress, ruled out simply wiping away the triggers altogether. But his argument that the sequester falls too heavily on defense has picked up steam on the Hill. The president has, recently, said he would not support changing the parameters of the trigger. And when pressed privately, White House aides have always argued that House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) shares their sentiment. But operatives within the Democratic Party are already waxing skeptically about their own lawmakers keeping those particular cuts in place, predicting that they'll buckle to avoid being branded soft on defense.
Speaking after Kyl on "Meet the Press," Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), another supercommittee member, sounded the alarm against that happening.
"Jon just talked about how they are not going to do that sequester," Kerry said. "He just talked about how they are going to get out from under it. There is a real threat that not only will there be a downgrade but that the market on Monday will look again at Washington and say, 'you guys can't get the job done.' And just the political confusion and gridlock is enough to say to the world: 'America can't get its act together.'"
Super Committee Member Jon Kyl Turns Eye Towards Saving Pentagon From Trigger Cuts
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/2 ... 03821.html
WASHINGTON -- Senator Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) a member of the congressional super committee charged with devising a plan to shrink the national debt, pledged on Sunday to find a way to limit the defense budget cuts that would be triggered by that committee's likely failure.
"I can't imagine that knowing of the importance of national defense that both Republicans and Democrats wouldn't find a way to work through that process so that we still get the $1.2 trillion in cuts but it doesn’t all fall on defense as [Defense] Secretary [Leon] Panetta pointed out," Kyl said on "Meet the Press." "I think there is a way to avoid that if there is good will on both sides. And again I think when the reality sets in even those Democrat friends who would like to see more defense cuts ... will find ways to work around that."
As it stands now, the super committee's failure to reach a deal by Wednesday would result in automatic cuts totaling $1.2 trillion, half of which would come from defense. But because those cuts won't actually happen until 2013, Congress has the capacity to alter or even prevent them fully.
Kyl, who is retiring from Congress, ruled out simply wiping away the triggers altogether. But his argument that the sequester falls too heavily on defense has picked up steam on the Hill. The president has, recently, said he would not support changing the parameters of the trigger. And when pressed privately, White House aides have always argued that House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) shares their sentiment. But operatives within the Democratic Party are already waxing skeptically about their own lawmakers keeping those particular cuts in place, predicting that they'll buckle to avoid being branded soft on defense.
Speaking after Kyl on "Meet the Press," Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), another supercommittee member, sounded the alarm against that happening.
"Jon just talked about how they are not going to do that sequester," Kerry said. "He just talked about how they are going to get out from under it. There is a real threat that not only will there be a downgrade but that the market on Monday will look again at Washington and say, 'you guys can't get the job done.' And just the political confusion and gridlock is enough to say to the world: 'America can't get its act together.'"
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if they really wanted to make progress with this "stupidcommittee" they would have made it so that no retiring politicians could be on it, and that those on the committee would have to defend themselves in a campaign against a challenger and they would have to face the voters that they are supposed to represent...
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
fucking stupid...
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
I'm starting to think both houses of Congress should just be forced to spend their days sitting in session watching Barney videos.
that would be like me signing a legal and binding contract and then trying to change the terms once it had been signed.
unbelievable.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
did you honestly think this would go down any other way...now everyone can go back to their constituents and say they tried hard AND the democrats get to show cuts that were made and make it seem like they had a hand in it, and the republicans get to fire up their base and make sure they know that evil lurks around every corner and this has now made us unsafe...genuis agreement for both sides...because no one person will be blamed for the cuts.
they just get to bitch about rules and no politician will be blamed except Obama, because, well that is what happens to the president.
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