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Originally Posted by Cletus Miller
Can you tell you what Fox thinks the R's should cut from the budget?
I mean, now that DeMint has taken SS cuts off the table and has said we don't need to make any of the HCR-connected cuts to Medicare. And we know that the Defense budget is sacrosanct. TIA.
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I don't know how much of the right wing PR machine he represents, but Limbaugh is ducking the "Cuts?" question with a Rube Goldberg explanation of how banning earmarks will cure everything. I heard him on the radio today saying that if DeMint's proposal to ban all earmarks goes through, lawmakers will no longer have anything to bribe each other with. He argued that if they'd banned earmarks before the Health Care Bill was up for consideration, it would have precluded Ben Nelson from signing on after being promised the "cornhusker kickback" (a ten year opt out of HCReform for OK).
Apparently, indirect prevention of future spending is now equivalent to a present tense cut. Interesting logic there.
