Sen. Bernie Sanders |
Will Obama go with this. The folks sponsoring the legislation don't seem to think so.
[Senator Bernie] Sanders did not express much confidence that the White House would get on board with his proposal, which he has framed as a way to fund the government this year without making crippling cuts to important programs.I'm afraid that Sanders is almost certainly right. As I've also said before (in my very first post here), Obama gave up the fight when he bought into the Republican framing that the deficit was the problem to deal with rather than jobs and then essentially ruled out raising revenue as a way to deal with that problem when he made the horrible tax deal in December. That left only slashing spending which, as Lovechilde recently wrote, is a really stupid thing to do in a recession.
“We have not heard – and I’m extremely disappointed, but not surprised – but we have not heard that the president has indicated that he is interested in coming up with revenue, just that he wants to negotiate with Republicans on spending cuts,” Sanders said.
It's nice that at least some Democrats are fighting back against at least some of the idiotic budget policies being promoted in Washington. It is just too bad the President does not appear to be one of them.
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