Obama Government-Streamlining Offer Creates GOP Dilemma

[Richardo]

10:40 am
January 13, 2012
by Frank James


President Obama proposal to streamline government will be challenging for the GOP to counter.

Maybe even if it weren't a general-election year, President Obama would still be proposing that Congress give him the power to merge federal agencies to make the government smaller and more efficient.

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So the president's proposal Friday that Congress grant him the authority to streamline government comes just in time to serve as a handy defense against those election-year charges from Republicans that he's a defender of oversized and wasteful government.

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The official told the AP that 1,000 to 2,000 jobs would be eliminated through attrition (that should ease some of the opposition from unions that represent federal workers.) The savings would be as much as $3 billion over 10 years, the official said.

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So now the ball's clearly in the Republican court. If the past is any guide, their response will be that Obama's plan doesn't go nearly far enough in whittling big government down to size.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/01/13/145160092/obama-government-streamlining-offer-creates-gop-dilemma

Note:
The proposal is that President Obama would be able to propose agency consolidations; and Congress would dispose of them in 90 days with a simple up or down vote. For the RWers that will scream about an 'unprecedented power-grab', the last Oval Office to have this authority was (of course): Ronald Reagan.

Ball's in your court, GOP

[global1]

1. Clearly In The Repugs Court......

they have been calling for smaller government - here is there chance to put their money where their mouths are.

[FarLeftFist]

2. And the GOP has never even thought of this option. Idiots!