Obama threatens to veto Republican cuts

Someone is itching for a showdown.

The Hill: The Obama administration on Tuesday threatened to veto the House GOP's measure funding the federal government. In a statement of administration policy, the Office of Management and Budget said cuts included in the Republican continuing resolution would hamstring the U.S. economy and compromise national security.

"If the president is presented with a bill that undermines critical priorities or national security through funding levels or restrictions, contains earmarks or curtails the drivers of long-term economic growth and job creation while continuing to burden future generations with deficits, the president will veto the bill," the statement said. 

The White House said the cuts in the GOP plan "will undermine our ability to out-educate, out-build, and out-innovate the rest of the world."

The statement said the GOP proposal goes too far and "proposes cuts that would sharply undermine core government functions and investments key to economic growth and job creation, and would reduce funding for the Department of Defense to a level that would leave the department without the resources and flexibility needed to meet vital military requirements."

Are you kidding me? Does anyone in their right mind thinks that $61 billion in cuts from a $3 trillion + dollar budget would even be noticed?  The only people who will fall for this BS are Kool Aid guzzlers, the mathematically challenged and the mentally retarded.  There simply isn't anyway to take the administration's line of thinking seriously.

Now is the time for Republicans to skip the polite parlor talk.  If Obama is hell bent of spending money we don't have, then it is time for Republicans to channel their inner Alan Grayson and simply say: "Obama wants to bankrupt the nation".  There is little reason to be coy about it.  Something tells me that someone on Facebook will say it pretty soon.

Via: Memeorandum

Via: The Hill