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| White House fails to meet deadline on detailing proposed defense cuts |
| 2012-09-08 |
| The White House announced that it will not meet Friday's deadline to make public what plans it will put into place to deal with the massive defense cuts coming at the end of the year. The announcement comes shortly after President B.O. signed into law the Sequestration Transparency Act that requires him to submit a report to Congress detailing the impact of his 'sequester' on defense and non-defense programs -- cuts that were triggered after the so-called Super Committee to come up with a debt deal last year. White House press secretary Jay Carney said the plans for defense cuts will be submitted to Congress by President B.O. late next week. The plans should give insight to which defense bases and cities will be impacted by the defense cuts. Carney accused Republicans of putting the nation at risk over the defense cuts "because of their insistence on preserving a trillion-dollar tax cut for millionaires and billionaires." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 ..requires him to submit a report to Congress detailing the impact of his 'sequester' on defense.. Doesn't want to show his hand at serious cuts in troop strength and pay. To do so before the election would kill his chances of reelection with the general public. Not to do so would finally have serious funding impact upon everything else which would alienate his base and probably kill his reelection. So he votes Present because there is no real penalty as a consequence since the MSM isn't going to make it an issue. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2012-09-08 23:06 |
| #2 He was happy to sign it into law as he would ignore it. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2012-09-08 12:40 |
| #1 A perfect example to go with the preceding post. Proven an incompetent failure that cannot/willnot obey the law. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2012-09-08 11:35 |