Dems Pounce on House GOP’s Details-Free Budget

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The House GOP’s non-budget budget may have riven senior members of the GOP caucus, but it has united House Democrats and the Obama administration, who have each distributed a set of talking points to their respective members about the thin (though shiny!) document.

The House Dem’s memo, like the budget it mocks, is sleek and well produced. It notes that “[w]hile Republicans expended a great deal of effort to make their budget document look just like President Obama’s, it was missing something rather important: Number…or any substance at all.”

The White House’s memo, while slightly more substantive, hits at many of the same themes: “The plan they released today is a rerun of the same failed policies that got our country into this deep financial and economic crisis: massive tax cuts for the wealthiest of the wealthy, huge subsidies to big oil and gas companies, and no plan to bring down the costs of health care.”

Both documents refer to the GOP as “the party of no” and “no new ideas”.

It’s probably important to remember that President Obama was practically begging his congressional nemeses to put out a budget or budgets of their own. Now he has a risible alternative to point to when critics or members of the media blanch at the big numbers in his own budget proposal, and the modifications to it released by congressional Democrats earlier this week.

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