Dems: The GOP is already Breaking Promises and Pledges ...
Let the Backpedaling begin!
On the first day of the 112th Congress, the big announcement was $100 billion would be cut.
Within 24 hours, we find out it's actually more like $50-60 billion in spending cuts, if they can even do that…. and then the CBO said the repealing of the health care law “obamacare” would Add $230 billion to the deficit.
Flashback:
It’s reminds me of 1994 when Republican won with their so-called "Contract With America" which failed to go anywhere… its just another Republican Con job…. They’ve been defrauding people for Decades to Vote against there own interests… Hopefully, this time the Dems can finally brand the GOP once and for all as the
“Party of the Deception”
I sure hope Democrats keep hammering the GOP for Every Broken Promise on a Daily Bases.
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For those that can watch video:
The video strings together a series of clips of media commentators and journalists questioning
what the Republicans are up to.
“First day for the new Congress and already the new majority is having to answer charges they’ll renege on their biggest promise,” CNN host and former Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D-N.Y.) says.
It then cuts to CNN anchor John King holding up a copy of the GOP’s manifesto for the new Congress.
“This is the Pledge to America. The House Republicans ran on this and there’s two references at least to cutting at least $100 billion in the first year,” King says. Then, to Fox News’ Martha McCallum: “But now there’s some serious doubts that the GOP can actually cut America’s budget by the $100 billion that they promised in their Pledge to America.”
In the pledge, Republicans had promised to “roll back government spending to pre-stimulus, pre-bailout levels, saving us at least $100 billion in the first year alone.”
But some Republicans are now backing down from their pre-election day promises, saying that their figure was for all of fiscal 2011 and that, because the fiscal year began Oct. 1, the cuts will be smaller because they only cover part of the year.
Republican lawmakers and aides have been saying that $100 billion was just a suggested number and that the party’s goal is to return to 2008 spending levels.
“George, the target in the Pledge to America was to reduce discretionary, non-defense spending, down to ‘08 levels. And that’s what we’re going to do,” Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) says to ABC News’s George Stephanopoulous in a clip from a Thursday interview.
“The $100 billion was based on the fiscal year,” Cantor continues. “And what happened, as you know, when the Democrats ended the session last time, they didn’t pass a budget. So, we’re in a situation where we have no budget right now. And we’re going to work hard to bring spending down to ‘08 levels.”