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“   Clearly unaware that reporters were already listening in on the conference line in the minutes before the scheduled call was to commence, the Senate Rules Committee chairman and pointman on the budget fight laid out a game plan to attack Republican personalities and politics while avoiding the nuts and bolts of getting back to a mature approach to federal spending. After thanking his colleagues — Barbara Boxer of California, Ben Cardin of Maryland, Tom Carper of Delaware and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut — for doing the budget bidding for the Senate Democrats, who are facing off against the House Republicans over how spending for the rest of the fiscal year, Mr. Schumer told them to portray John Boehner of Ohio, the Speaker of the House, as painted into a box by the Tea Party, and to decry the spending cuts that he wants as extreme. “I always use the word extreme,” Mr. Schumer said, “That is what the caucus instructed me to use this week.” [full] Just another unwatched tree falling in the forest Justin Credible