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Topic: Sen. Warren calls automatic
budget cuts ‘just plain dumb’ |
Sen. Warren calls automatic
budget cuts ‘just plain dumb’
Boston Herald, by Marie Szaniszlo
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Posted By:JoniTx, 2/25/2013 2:59:15 PM
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| Sen. Elizabeth Warren called the automatic cuts in federal spending slated to take effect Friday “just plain dumb,” but the Bay State’s newly minted, but still senior, senator said it’s largely up to congressional leaders to reach a compromise. “The sequester negotiations are mostly with the leadership,” she told reporters this morning before addressing the New England Council. “We all talk, but it’s not happening with every Republican reaching out to every Democrat. Right now, the White House, the leaders in the Senate and the House of Representatives are in negotiations.” Warren called the $85 billion in automatic cuts
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
dman, 2/25/2013 3:10:12 PM (No. 9195542)
Projection.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
VAfreedomluver, 2/25/2013 3:10:23 PM (No. 9195543)
She´s certainly an expert on dumb.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
ScarletPimpernel, 2/25/2013 3:10:41 PM (No. 9195544)
I call Sen. Warren "just plan dumb".
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
lostinmassachusetts, 2/25/2013 3:11:34 PM (No. 9195545)
Really? Dis she craft it herself? Words Warren should never say in public: dumb, honest, affirmative action, Native American, middle-class, fairness. Feel free to add to this list.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Whamdbambam, 2/25/2013 3:19:33 PM (No. 9195571)
Smoke signals.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
oh-heck, 2/25/2013 3:22:41 PM (No. 9195582)
Warren: Automatic budget cuts heap bad medicine. Fixed the headline.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec, 2/25/2013 3:40:51 PM (No. 9195632)
Indian Taker......
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw, 2/25/2013 3:55:46 PM (No. 9195669)
So its true, it was Obama´s plan?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
joew9, 2/25/2013 4:09:28 PM (No. 9195702)
If she had been in the Senate at the time she would have voted for them. It was a deal for the Democrats to get everything they wanted at the time with the knowledge that they would never actually do the cuts.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Reality, 2/25/2013 4:21:41 PM (No. 9195724)
Liarwatha
Just some advice by one of your subjects.
Junior Senators should be seen and not heard.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
coldoc, 2/25/2013 4:24:12 PM (No. 9195728)
Has anybody consulted the other intellectual in the senate, patty murray?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
No Representation in CA, 2/25/2013 4:41:33 PM (No. 9195773)
I can´t say what I´d call ´Sen. Warren´ or the idiots who elected her. I prefer not to be banned
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
strike3, 2/25/2013 5:27:02 PM (No. 9195849)
So all the reckless spending, bailouts, loans from China, vote buying, gifts to labor unions and stimulus that led up to the need for these cuts were what, brilliant?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Susannah, 2/25/2013 7:08:14 PM (No. 9195990)
#12, tragically, Warren is now the senior senator from Massachusetts. Whoever replaces Kerry will be the junior senator.
She might not have been elected had not every out-of-state college student in Mass. been hauled to the polls to vote for her. The "Elizabeth Warren for Senator, and then President" movement started in Berkeley, California, three years ago.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 2/26/2013 12:03:19 AM (No. 9196317)
If anyone knows dumb, it´s Liz.
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