Holy S#t%:Republicans are looking to Obama to a striking degree to help them walk back their party..

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"Republicans are also looking to President Barack Obama to a striking degree to help them walk back their party from what many privately admit is a serious overreach by the House."

Are you friggin kidding me? This is why they keep yelling for Obama to "lead" - better put as save their asses from themselves.

Twin Senate votes will open real negotiations on budget


A GOP defeat in the Senate sets the stage for House flexibility in talks with Senate Democrats.

Republicans will bring their House-passed spending cuts to the Senate floor Wednesday amid rank-and-file grumbling inside the GOP and with no sign of capturing the Democratic defections needed to command a simple majority — let alone the 60 votes for passage.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will fare only marginally better with his plan to cut tens of billions of dollars less over the remainder of the fiscal year. But a Republican defeat stands to have much more import, setting the stage for House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to begin showing more flexibility in talks with Senate Democrats and the White House.

As approved by the House on Feb. 19, the Republican package would reduce spending to $1.026 trillion, or about $61.3 billion below the level coming into this year. Using the same benchmarks, the Senate Democratic alternative stops just below $1.079 trillion, an $8.7 billion reduction that leaves the two sides about $52 billion apart.
Bridging the gap will require more concessions by the administration, but Republicans are also looking to President Barack Obama to a striking degree to help them walk back their party from what many privately admit is a serious overreach by the House.

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The challenge for the GOP is to walk back now without losing more tea party supporters who helped drive the cuts in the first place. Already, there are some unhappy conservatives who don’t believe the House package goes far enough.
Freshman Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) signaled that he will vote no— despite appeals by Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who is from his home state.
“It codifies spending at $1.5 trillion in debt,” Paul told POLITICO, referring to deficit projections this year even after the cuts. “I wouldn’t vote for that much debt.”

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With no deal on the horizon, Republicans bought themselves extra time with last week’s funding resolution, and Boehner is prepared to do so again to avert the March 18 deadline. But that is a pony he can ride for only so long before conservatives get restless, and it is ultimately in Obama’s interest to reach a settlement.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/50909.html#ixzz1G4tfaPYj

[ProSense]

1. Looks like the President just read that

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2. Senate GOP is scared to vote on the crazy House Bill but they are going to have to do it tomorrow.

heh :evilgrin:

It should help start the intra-party GOP/Teabagger War. The semi-sane ones want President Obama to save them. It's your party, ass#$%@s. :popcorn:

[Tx4obama]

3. Great photo! n/t

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4. Kudos and Rah to you

That is funny

Kudos and Rah is a like a Kick and Rec. But, since yours is not the originating piece you can't have a Kick and Rec, so you get a Kudos and Rah instead

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7. Love it and thank you. I just posted it to my facebook... "Reacting to the

House-passed spending cuts to 2011 budget".

[vaberella]

5. This is Politico...I don't believe this.

If this was coming from a more trusted news source I would believe it. But from Politico---anything to make headlines.

[Historic NY]

6. I read they want him to save them from the teabaggers...too funny is right.

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8. Kick