GOP House Candidate Mike Kelly: ‘There’s Stuff To Be Cut. What Is It? I Can’t Tell You.’

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GOP House Candidate Mike Kelly: ‘There’s Stuff To Be Cut. What Is It? I Can’t Tell You.’


ThinkProgress filed this report from Meadville, PA.

During a debate Thursday night, Pennsylvania House GOP candidate Mike Kelly was asked by the moderator to name “specific” cuts he would make to the federal budget. Kelly clearly understood the question, since he repeated the word “specific” in his response no less than 8 times.

But despite mentioning the word “specific,” there was nothing actually specific in Kelly’s response. Eight times Kelly rebuffed his own insistence that he would address the issue “very specifically.” His excuses ran the gamut, from “let me get there and I’ll figure it out” to “I can’t tell you,” and from “the specificity is in the process” to “I’d tear it apart”:

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http://thinkprogress.org/2010/10/23/mike-kelly-cuts/

[Angry Dragon]

1. Not part of their agenda to have answers

[Booster]

2. Oh, they have answers. Medicare and Soc Sec are 2.

[Angry Dragon]

3. How come they never talk about cutting their pensions

or make them need based??

[Historic NY]

4. Everything except corporate welfare.