Bachmann: $39 billion in cuts is a 'disappointment'

[TomCADem]

Source: Politico

On Friday Speaker of the House John Boehner told reporters he's a glass-is-half-full kind of guy. Tonight, Rep. Michele Bachmann reveals she's not so much.

Bachmann voted against a short-term bill to keep the government running while a negotiated budget package moves through Congress. Bachmann says the larger deal, which includes $39 billion in spending cuts, and has garnered wide support among the Republican Conference, is a "disappointment."

“The deal that was reached tonight is a disappointment for me and for millions of Americans who expected $100 billion in cuts, who wanted to make sure their tax dollars stopped flowing to the nation’s largest abortion provider, and who wanted us to defund ObamaCare," Bachmann said in a release. "Instead, we’ve been asked to settle for $39 billion in cuts, even as we continue to fund Planned Parenthood and the implementation of ObamaCare. Sadly, we’re missing the mandate given us by voters last November, and for that reason I voted against the Continuing Resolution.”


Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0411/Bachmann_39_bill_in_cuts_is_a_disappointment.html

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I know there is this sock puppet narrative that the Republicans delivered on their promise to conservative voters, but as I've tried to point out with a links to the GOP's Pledge to America, Republicans promised $100 billion in cuts to spending in the first year. Not cuts to a proposed budget that did not even exist at the time the Pledge to America was sold to conservative voters.

Well, here is Bachmann, who is familiar with that Pledge declaring that the deal is a disappoint. Why? Because she is speaking to the actual Tea Party types who actually read and relied on the Pledge to America, not the current corporate media narrative to the general public that the Republicans delivered on their promised cuts.

The fact of the matter is that Republicans promised $100 billion in actual spending cuts in the first year. Not $38 billion. Also, they were not seeing into the future and proposing cuts to a proposed Presidential budget that did not even exist until February 2011.

Still, expect to hear the media narrative that Republicans held out, and that Democrats gave in, thus Republicans are strong and Democrats are weak. The question is will we buy it?

I am not saying that the deal is great. What I am saying is that both Republicans, as well as Democrats compromised on what they promised to their core constituencies, which is why Bachmann is playing to the base.

[Skittles]

1. shut the fuck up, you teabagger whore

[totodeinhere]

3. No, let her keep talking. Every time she opens her mouth she makes a fool out of herself.

And loses votes in the process.

[Skittles]

5. I know, but fuck, between her and Sarah

it just makes me despair for my country

[OwnedByFerrets]

10. Thanks for saying it for me.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. You know, this ----- almost makes me long for Sarah Palin.

Gawd, where did THIS idiot come from?!?

[Turbineguy]

4. She's right.

At this rate it will take them 7 years of hostage taking to fix the deficit. Luckily for her, the economy will collapse before that.

Her constituents should just elect Osama bin Laden.

[Tx4obama]

6. The deal cuts spending by $78.5 billion from the President’s FY 2011 Budget request

Excerpt:
Details of the Bipartisan Budget Deal

SNIP

The deal cuts spending by $78.5 billion from the President’s FY 2011 Budget request -- the largest annual spending cut in our history.

Full article here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/04/09/details-bipartisan-budget-deal

She is lying. It is not $39 Billion, it is almost $79 Billion!

[TomCADem]

11. The Republican Pledge To America Promising $100 Billion In Spending Cuts Was Announced in 2010

The President's FY 2011 budget request was not made until February 2011. Thus, it is incorrect to retroactively claim that the Republicans were promising $100 billion in cuts off of President Obama's yet to be announced budget. Under this theory, the President could just throw out a request for a five trillion budget increase, then the Republicans could then claim five trillion in spending cuts.

The fact of the matter is that Michelle Backmann is playing to the Tea Party base who know what they were promised back in 2010: $100 billion in actual spending cuts in the first year. Bachmann knows they did not get it, notwithstanding Boehner and Cantor claiming victory. Of course, on the left, some are playing into this narrative that Republicans did not compromise, only Democrats compromised.

It is toxic and inaccurate to push this idea that Republicans have actually delivered on what they promised while Democrats gave in. The corporate media wants us to think that Democrats are weak and Republicans are strong. The question is whether we buy into it. Sadly, many of us do even though you have the Tea Party types admitting that they did not get what they were promised.

[Tx4obama]

15. Well...

I do NOT believe that the Republicans delivered on what they promised while Democrats gave in.
But the fact remains Obama budget proposal has been cut by $78 billion. So, when the republicans say it was only $38 billion it makes it look like the democrats were not willing to help with spending cuts, and we all know that the we democrats did give up much of what we wanted.

I don't think Bachmann and the others should get way with saying that the democrats did not compromise enough - because we DID and they did not.

[Drale]

7. I'll probably get flamed for this but

If Michele Bachmann doesn't like it, it can't be all bad can it?

[Angry Dragon]

8. Why does she hate this country so much??

Why does she hate women so much??
Why does she hate children so much??

Why does she hate so much??

[cliffordu]

9. I have never used this term to describe a woman before.

That bitch needs to shut the fuck up. Really.

[tallahasseedem]

13. It's quite okay...

this woman says a whole heck of a lot worse.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

12. It's a helluva lot bigger disappointment for the people who suffer because of them.

[alp227]

14. Let's have a fundraiser to buy her a home in Somalia then

if no amount of cuts are enough for her.