Democrats try to hide their tax and spend ways
The Hill:
The ranking member on the Senate Budget Committee says President Obama needs to bring the negotiations over increasing the debt ceiling out into the open.They know they are working against the will of the voters and they are afraid of letting the voters know what they are up to. They have decided to campaign on Mediscare in 2012 and not talk about how they would pay for the program and the other things they want to spend money on.
"We might as well stake it out publicly to see what the disagreements are," Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) said Friday in an interview with The Hill. "I believe Majority Leader [Harry] Reid and the president desperately are working not to have to reveal their vision for the future, financially. Their vision will include, from what glimpses we've seen, an advocacy for more taxes and less spending cuts."
Sessions said Democrats have been avoiding making public the negotiations and laying out precisely what they want in a debt-limit package because "what they're advocating for, I don't think would be popular."
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I definitely agree that the Democratic strategy is a rather cynical one: say that since Republicans want to reduce the amount we pay in entitlements over the long-term, that they will make immediate cuts right here and now. Pretend like the government didn't bring in 2.1 trillion in tax revenue and have 3.7 trillion in expenditures.
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