{"id":16620,"date":"2012-12-05T21:31:29","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T02:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=16620"},"modified":"2012-12-05T21:31:29","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T02:31:29","slug":"an-interesting-twist-in-the-budget-saga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=16620","title":{"rendered":"An Interesting Twist In The Budget Saga"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Washington Examiner<\/a> is reporting that Harry Reid<\/a> has blocked a vote in the Senate<\/a> on President Obama’s<\/a> budget proposal.<\/p>\n

The article quotes Senator Reid:<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no Geithner<\/a> proposal,\u201d Reid said. \u201cThis is all made up.\u201d Reid\u2019s comment might come as a surprise to Geithner and the reporters who interviewed him over the weekend.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe laid out a very detailed, carefully designed set of spending, savings and tax<\/a> changes that help put us on a path offiscal responsibility,\u201d Geithner told Fox News<\/a>\u2019 Chris Wallace<\/a> on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

Tweaking the Democrats from the Senate floor, the Republican leader (Mitch McConnell) said wasn\u2019t surprised they refused to vote on the president\u2019s proposal.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAs I just indicated, it includes a $2 trillion tax increase over 10 years \u2014 the biggest real dollar tax increase in U.S. history,\u201d he said. It increases taxes on nearly one million small businesses \u2014 in the middle of a jobs crisis.\u00a0 According to Ernst and Young<\/a>, this type of rate hike would cause more than 700,000 Americans<\/a> to lose their jobs. It raises taxes on investment income, harming economic growth even more. It includes tens of billions of dollars in more Washington spending \u2014 in a deal to cut the deficit.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

If it was a serious offer, why won’t the Democrats vote on it?<\/p>\n

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Today’s Washington Examiner is reporting that Harry Reid has blocked a vote in the Senate on President Obama’s budget proposal. The article quotes Senator Reid: \u201cThere is no Geithner proposal,\u201d Reid said. \u201cThis is all made up.\u201d Reid\u2019s comment might … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,4485,600,733,3629,711,2184,285,430],"class_list":["post-16620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-budget-negotiations-2012","tag-chris-wallace","tag-harry-reid","tag-reid","tag-senate","tag-timothy-geithner","tag-united-states","tag-washington-examiner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16622,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16620\/revisions\/16622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}