What's this? Only 352 million actually cut this year???

[ReturnoftheDjedi]

So says Dana Bash on CNN. Some arcane budget rules??

Repukes are pissing in their britches.

59 defect on Boehner.

Obama split the GOP in twain.

[Tx4obama]

1. Here are some links.

Forget $38B: Budget only cuts $352 million this year
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20053879-503544.html

CBO Says Budget Deal Will Cut Spending by Only $352 Million This Year
http://www.nationaljournal.com/budget/cbo-says-budget-deal-will-cut-spending-by-only-nobr-352-million-nobr-this-year-20110413?mrefid=mostViewed

Budget deal: CBO analysis shows initial spending cuts less than expected
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/deal_includes_86b_in_cuts_that_likely_would_never_have_been_spent/2011/04/12/AFFbG4bD_story.html?wprss=rss_congress

[Cali_Democrat]

2. Maybe there is something to this chess shit after all

[Tx4obama]

3. Yep :) n/t

[Dokkie]

5. People are starting to see the light

This is why it is so infuriating watching TYT bash Obama all day on the budget "capitulation".

[vaberella]

11. Yeah...always on non-stop repeat. That's until the info comes out a week later or a day later.

Then they're like...Oh...Oh...Oh wow! But they still don't admit they're wrong.

[vaberella]

10. Yeah....even I was a bit skeptical until I saw all this stuff that came out. n/t

[Recursion]

4. Boehner was bluffing, Reid & Obama called

Boehner was not going to do a shutdown, and Reid gave him some face-saving accounting tricks to present as cuts. And then conveniently leaked the facts just ahead of the vote as a last little "fuck you" to the orange man.

[vaberella]

8. That's what I saw too...it was a major FUCK YOU! n/t

[ReturnoftheDjedi]

12. I love this post.

:)

[Recursion]

6. Bwah! It gets better! Spending actually increased

Per CBO, via Wonkette:

http://wonkette.com/443139/haha-cbo-says-that-budget-deal-actually-increases-spending

The deal only includes any decrease at all if you count the cost of the wars last year but not this year. Ha!

[vaberella]

9. I wasn't joining the "chess" thing until I saw all that stuff last night.

It was a pretty surprising move by Obama and the Dems. DUers are weak man. Seriously...we really do have a brain in the office right now.

[vaberella]

7. I created a thread on it last night, link below:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x653419