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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]
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Just
another unwatched tree falling in the forest
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Justin
Credible
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