Budget fight continues as Washington takes a break

President Obama is in Florida until Monday and Congress is in recess through February 24, but there's no reason a little vacation needs to get in the way of the ongoing budget war in Washington.

With the so-called "sequester" set to carve $1.2 trillion in federal spending out of the economy on March 1, both the president and congressional Republicans used their weekly address Saturday to pitch their own alternatives to the looming fiscal blow.

President Obama sounded many of the same themes heard in last Tuesday's State of the Union, emphasizing education, manufacturing, and immigration reform as the keys to growth. He lobbied for his "balanced approach" to deficit reduction that would combine "responsible reforms" on health care spending and taxes to stabilize our finances.

The president contrasted his approach with Republicans, who have proposed "even bigger cuts to things like education and job training, Medicare and Social Security benefits."

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"That won't work," Mr. Obama said. "We can't just cut our way to prosperity."

The GOP fired back, with Rep. Martha Roby, R-Ala., blaming the sequester's automatic cuts squarely on the White House and calling on the president "to join us in replacing his sequester with better, more responsible spending cuts."

Instead of seeking compromise, Roby said, the president and congressional Democrats "see his sequester as an opportunity to push through another tax increase."

President Obama has warned that the impending cuts, half of which come from defense spending, could compromise national security, but his warning earned no plaudits from Roby. "It is a shame that our commander-in-chief is using the military he leads as leverage in an ideological crusade for higher taxes," she said. "These games have got to stop."

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Heres a link
http://www.theantiliberalzone.com/2012/01/04/50-ways-to-impeach-obama/

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Trust me justice will be served.

51 REASONS TO IMPEACH OBAMA

CBS I like to know why I just found this out.

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the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona which began on January 16, 2012. It is the nation's first impeachment trial since 2001, which led to the EDSA 2 uprising that ousted then President Joseph Estrada and installed Gloria Arroyo as his successor. The Arroyo presidency enabled the rise of her chief of staff Renato Corona to Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Corona was impeached by the House of Representatives on December 12, 2011, and is currently being tried by the Senate sitting as an impeachment court.
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/cjtrial?ref=story

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Perhaps someone in Congress, a Tea party type?, could offer a bill that mandates Congress (both the House and Senate) will only be allowed to take "federal Holidays" and a maximunm of 30 days leave...same as any government worker gets today.
With the age of communications, they no longer need to hop on a pony to tell their constituents how crappy they are doing in DC. They can just answer a few of their own letters and emails vice an 'auto reply' from staffer.
just a thought, might save a few million dollars each year.

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Official: Expressing the sense of Congress that the use of offensive military force by a President without prior and clear authorization of an Act of Congress constitutes an impeachable high crime and misdemeanor under article II, section 4 of the Constitution. as introduced.

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Marc Pitzke

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I will find out, in the need to know now age it's not to hard.

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What your guys endgame to all this?

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DSCA, DOD forces will conform to the CJCS Standing Rules for the Use of
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