{"id":7601,"date":"2011-10-11T13:57:55","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T17:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=7601"},"modified":"2011-10-11T13:57:55","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T17:57:55","slug":"defunding-the-cats-so-the-mice-can-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=7601","title":{"rendered":"Defunding The Cats So The Mice Can Play"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At the end of September, the Washington Examiner<\/a>\u00a0posted an article about attempts by the Democrats in the Senate to defund the\u00a0Government Accountability Office (GAO). The GAO is a non-partisan group that looks for government waste.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

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Seven months ago, the non-partisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a landmark report identifying at least $200 billion in wasteful, duplicative, and fraudulent government programs.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is simply downright inconvenient. The article reports the Democrat response to this information:<\/p>\n

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-NV, said the report, \u201cshows all kinds of redundancies and overlapping. \u00a0Those are places we can cut money. \u00a0Let’s do it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, agreed.: \u201cAgain, we all agree we have to get rid of waste, fraud, abuse, duplication, obsolescence, and the rest. The GAO has given us a blueprint for that, and we subscribe to that. \u00a0We all agree that we must reduce the deficit, and the fiscal commission has given us a road map for that. \u00a0We can agree or disagree with some of it; but the fact is it gives us a blueprint for how to go forward, and we should take heed of that.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yet, in the last seven months, Congress has failed to send a single cut identified by GAO to the president\u2019s desk. \u00a0Even worse, instead of cutting the spending identified by GAO, the Senate Appropriations Committee is now proposing to slash funding for GAO itself.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Somehow that is not surprising. Congress has not passed a budget in more than two years, despite being required by law to do so. Please follow the link to the Washington Examiner<\/a>\u00a0to see the games the Democrats in the Senate are playing with the GAO in an attempt to avoid being held accountable for their runaway spending.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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