Senate Dems cede more ground, offer Republicans $30 billion in budget cuts

[Playinghardball]

Source: Raw Story
By Sahil Kapur

WASHINGTON – With just 9 days left to strike a budget deal or face a government shutdown, Senate Democrats offered House Republicans an additional $10 billion in concessions on spending cuts Wednesday, upping their bid to $30 billion.

The figure almost matches the $32 billion in cuts Republicans initially asked for last month, before tea party pressure compelled them to change their opening bid to the $61 billion in spending reductions the House of Representatives approved last month.

"It's the number the Republicans were for, before they were against it. We got to that number by relying on reality, not ideology," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) on the floor Wednesday, warning Republicans that they'll be blamed for shutting down the government if they cave to tea party demands and refuse to accept the deal.

Read more at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/30/senate-dems-cede-more-ground-offer-republicans-30-billion-in-budget-cuts/

[louis-t]

1. I'm actually kind of glad to hear Harry Reid using this

language. Talk about their "ideology". Talk about how their "ideology" has nothing to do with reality. Talk about it every day.

[dennis4868]

2. And DUers and the PL...

will blame Obama of course....because of the broken congress (DINOs, repubs, senate rules, etc...) alot of legislation that Obama and the dems got through was watered down and Obama, not the dems in congress or the constant fillubuster threats, got blamed for everything. That's what DU and the PL is all about.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. Boy, it's a good thing the Democrats have the majority in the senate.

Or, they'd have to cave to the Republicans...oh, wait.

[Zorra]

4. First, my fellow Democrats, humiliation. Then, a slow, horrible death by capitulation.

Harry is very good at his work. We've seen the results of it over and over.

He knows how to make Democrats suffer.