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House Republicans Can’t Explain How Obama’s Policies Got Into Paul Ryan’s Budget
House Republicans overwhelmingly voted against the fiscal cliff deal, and they got busted today for trying to take credit for it, by using the $600 billion in new revenue in Paul Ryan’s budget.
Tea Partier Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and his party got busted by Ryan Lizza on CNN’s Starting Point this morning for hypocritically trying to use the fiscal cliff tax increase on the wealthy to make Paul Ryan’s magic budget work.
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RYAN LIZZA, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: I think it’s fine as a statement of priorities for Republicans to say we disagree with Obamacare and our budget repeals it. I think that’s reasonable. Did you vote against the fiscal cliff deal?
CHAFFETZ: Yes, I did.
LIZZA: Is this budget going to assume the $600 billion in new revenues in that fiscal cliff deal?
CHAFFETZ: Well, we haven’t gotten to the final product. Paul has not yet released it. The Budget Committee – well, it potentially will.
LIZZA: It potentially would?
CHAFFETZ: Well, I want to look at it, in totality. When you do a budget, I’m not trying to punt, I’m trying to say you have to look at all of the things – I was a kicker in college. But look, at the end of the day you’ve got to put numbers on a piece of paper and achieve balance. So I think there’s a mix there -
LIZZA: Speaking to America’s frustration, Republicans voted overwhelmingly against a deal that raised $600 billion in revenue, and now it sounds like they’re going to put out a budget that pockets that $600 billion and put that up for a vote. So I think that paradox is – is a little difficult to understand.
CHAFFETZ: We have won some things and we’ve lost a lot of things, OK
Ryan’s budget assumes the repeal of Obamacare, but includes the additional $600 billion in revenue that will be generated by the fiscal cliff deal. When asked why they are using a tax hike on the wealthy that they fought against for nearly two years to their own advantage, Chaffetz was at a loss for words.
Why is it fine for Ryan’s budget to assume that one thing that was upheld by the Supreme Court (Obamacare) will be repealed, while another thing that Republicans have desperately fought against will be the law of the land?More importantly, Republicans can’t explain how Barack Obama’s tax policies made it into their budget.
The Ryan budget will essentially endorse President Obama’s balanced approach to increasing revenue. The truth is that House Republicans know that they can’t balance the budget without more revenue. Their cut and never raise taxes mantra makes for a great campaign slogan, but it doesn’t work in the real world. As President Obama consistently stressed during the 2012 campaign, the numbers don’t add up when a cuts only approach is used.
House Republicans will continue to fight to the death against raising more revenue, while quietly constructing a budget that only works if more revenue is added.
The Ryan budget is providing the best argument for why President Obama’s balanced approach is the only way to go.
Just don’t tell House Republicans that the budget they are about to loudly champion is based on Obama’s policies.
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Lynn
Mar. 11th, 2013 at 12:56 pm
Chaffetz – another clueless repug.
KarenJ
Mar. 11th, 2013 at 1:21 pm
Jason Chaffetz, a Mormon, is continuing the legacy of Mitt Romney, proving that the Mormon mission of “lying for the Lord” is alive and unfortunately well in American politics.
garee peters
Mar. 11th, 2013 at 6:20 pm
…you know, Mormonism: 1800 years later, Jesus shows up and says, ” I forgot a few things the first time through.”
Just A Dumb Fireman
Mar. 11th, 2013 at 9:21 pm
I thought he was an alien.
Paws
Mar. 11th, 2013 at 1:33 pm
Well of course they want to take credit for it! It’s like the Reps who voted for the House version of the VAWA, which failed…they are now fundraising by saying they voted to “protect women” by voting FOR the VAWA. What those fundraising emails and letters don’t tell their constituents is that the law that was signed by Pres. Obama is the Senate version of the bill, which included Native Americans and LGBT, not the bill the House voted for that didn’t include these protections.
The most unfortunate part of that little tid-bit is that their constituents won’t bother to check it out so the Reps will get away with their lie.
Same as the budget by Wonder-Kid Ryan. Who is going to know what they’re doing? People who frequent certain websites are not going to hear about this. It will not be on Fox News and, sad to say, a lot of them won’t bother seeking out any further information on it that doesn’t conform to their beliefs. They’ll paint any dissent of their preconceived notions as “liberal bias.”
It’s a sad state of affairs.
Eykis
Mar. 11th, 2013 at 2:11 pm
The Repig lies just continue…..
Cyndi
Mar. 11th, 2013 at 2:22 pm
I usually enjoy the articles on this site but this one is a little far fetched.
No fan of the repubs here but at the same time, it only makes sense that a new budget (no matter which side submits it) would include the new revenue. That’s what a budget is. Revenue and expenses.
And by including it, it doesn’t mean that they are taking credit for it, they are just acknowledging that it is exists.
I do agree that their ideas suck and that trying to repeal obamacare 33 times is assinine …but a budget projection has to include projected revenue and projected expenses.
Shiva(Moderator)
Mar. 11th, 2013 at 4:22 pm
So basically what you are saying is, they have fought as hard as possible against the 600,000,000,000 when Obama wanted it, they have talked against it, done everything they can to make sure it never went into any program but now is in their program.
They have been dead set against any new revenues but now all of a sudden this one is just fine but they don’t know why it’s there.
And you say that’s to be expected?
garee peters
Mar. 11th, 2013 at 6:25 pm
…You are missing the point Cyndi: They fought tooth and nail against, platformed Presidential candidate against this $600 billion….and to now say that they can balance things after slipping it back in the calculations as a way to inveigh against Obamacare….is a new height in hypocrisy….See?
buckeyewill
Mar. 11th, 2013 at 3:24 pm
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
he misses the field goal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Deanne
Mar. 11th, 2013 at 3:57 pm
Ryan’s budget is also slogging the dead horse of medicare vouchers. Of course, like on the stump, he denied he wanted to turn it into a voucher program.
He now will con the people by use of the new wording “premium support”.
Like the leopard — it doesn’t change it’s spots. But then — comparing him to a leopard is being an elitist in that it is a beautiful animal — that which he is not.
Don’t be surprised to see some references to defunding/cutting Planned Parenthood and/or abortion among other women’s issues as he just can’t help himself. He still wants to pass legislation on ‘personhood’. He truly is no different that the dipstick that McCaskill crushed!! Ryan co-sponsored the bills with that turd.
He is so deep in the weeds on the issues of women — he just can’t control himself.
Personally — IMO, doesn’t say much for his wife to stay with a habitual liar.
Shiva(Moderator)
Mar. 11th, 2013 at 4:25 pm
I have given up on the media telling people exactly what Paul Ryan is and what he stands for. MSNBC doesn’t somewhat but there is never really been an in-depth program on him.
As others have noted here he is definitely against women’s rights, and he absolutely knows very little about budgets.
But Republican women vote for him. Republicans vote for him knowing full well that they will pay him more taxes to make up for the rich. It’s unconscionable
Deanne
Mar. 11th, 2013 at 4:39 pm
There have been a few on MSNBC like Rachel who has shown charts, Martin Bashir and a few pundits that have talked about the debt has DECREASED but you don’t and won’t hear it from anyone else including the many MSNBC paid pundits and of course all the rest of the stunned networks, cable, media, etc.
Imagine if Ryan was in office and made the cuts as in his budget — The heads of the old farts that vote for him would explode.
D. W. Skinner
Mar. 11th, 2013 at 11:48 pm
Paul Ryan …or how much hit-say you can shove in a suit.
majii
Mar. 12th, 2013 at 12:54 am
After his performance in the 2012 presidential election, if anyone doesn’t know that Paul Ryan is a very practiced liar, they don’t want to know. When he and Romney were telling seniors that none of their healthcare policies would change Medicare for them, they were lying through their teeth. In his Fox interview on Sunday, Ryan referred to his Medicare plan as “premium support.” Expect this to be the new GOP word for Medicare vouchers.