The Hill: Deficit panel's ideas to be resurrected in bipartisan Senate bill (Warner and Chambliss)

[seafan]

Legislation coming in January.


Deficit panel's ideas to be resurrected in bipartisan Senate bill

By Erik Wasson
December 20, 2010

Sens. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) and Mark Warner (D-Va.) on Monday said they will introduce a bill early next year based on the report from President Obama’s deficit commission.

Warner and Chambliss have been meeting with a group of 18 senators on finding a way to balance the budget, and said they have concluded the debt commission's proposal is the best basis for bipartisan talks.

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Chambliss acknowledged that the bill will be an enormous piece of legislation, especially if it tackles entitlement reform. The commission's plan cut some benefits for Social Security and Medicare while increasing payroll taxes in order to make Social Security permanently solvent.

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In Dec. 14 floor speeches, 16 members of the Warner-Chambliss group spoke in praise of the debt commission plan. Speaking were Sens. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Jon Tester (D-Mont.), Mike Johanns (R-Neb.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Kay Hagan (D-N.C.), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Mark Udall (D-Colo.), Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), Jean Shaheen (D-N.H.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Mark Begich (D-Alaska).

Take good note of the members of the Catfood 2.0 Commission.



So, after voting for nearly $1 Trillion to go in the deficit column to lavish the Bush/Obama tax giveaways onto the rich, these same people now want to cut the people's social safety net, services and the commons, because John Boehner wants to cut $100 billion in discretionary spending in 2011.


People, get ready, because the upcoming year will be a firestorm.

[Poboy]

1. I am sure the board monitors will be by soon to tell us to stand down

and that we have nothing to worry about. Wait until it happens(wait until its too late)!

[jtown1123]

9. Yeah. You guys are just fear mongering!//sarcasm

[gratuitous]

2. The next step is in motion

The Commission blew its deadline and violated its own rules, those requirements are now being jettisoned to provide cover for dicking over poor folks on the pretext that a "bipartisan" commission of wealthy people said the best way to reduce the deficit is on the backs of people too financially insignificant to matter.

Now, who could have predicted that?

[egoclothes]

5. Obama appointed them. He is 'bipartisan" always so this horrible

upcoming year was very predicable (esp since the Repugs won in 2010)--and Obama will suppport and lead the way.

[ProSense]

3. Is the notion that

these Democrats want to cut Social Security:

In Dec. 14 floor speeches, 16 members of the Warner-Chambliss group spoke in praise of the debt commission plan. Speaking were Sens. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Jon Tester (D-Mont.), Mike Johanns (R-Neb.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Kay Hagan (D-N.C.), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Mark Udall (D-Colo.), Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), Jean Shaheen (D-N.H.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Mark Begich (D-Alaska).

Will be interesting to see their plan.

[jtown1123]

10. Don't forget good old Steny Hoyer

A party leader, nonetheless. Makes me sick.

http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/budget/133337-hoyer-prioritizes-deficit-tax-code-reform-in-speech

[displacedvermoter]

11. Part of the notion is that the President's Simpson Commission

helped to make it possible for these people to publically consider cutting Social Security.

[leveymg]

4. We have met the enemy, and its Blue with cropped ears, no tail, and bat wings.

The right-wing of the Democratic Party has fallen into the smoking pit that's opened in the earth.

[FiveGoodMen]

6. All of DC has agreed: The rich need to be richer so the rest of us must be poorer.

Taxation without representation.

That hasn't always been as readily accepted as it is today.

[democrat_patriot]

7. Good test of Obama's beliefs and his Veto power.

We shall see what the outrage is.

Will it be the left screaming about less SS and Medicare?
Or the teabaggers screaming about raising payroll taxes (and their masters who really want SS killed or privatized)?

[villager]

12. Heh. Funny guy.

;-)

[EFerrari]

8. Kick