Sen. Durbin Tells FOX News Sunday: Dems Will Only Cut $10.5 Billion or Less Than .28% From Bloated Budget

Senate Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin told FOX News Sunday host Chris Wallace that democrats would not cut more than $10.5 billion from the bloated $3.5 trillion budget. This is less than .28% of the annual budget. The Obama -Pelosi national deficit will reach $1.65 trillion this year. But, this doesn’t bother democrats – They won’t budge. The Obama-Pelosi regime increased spending by 84% – If you think they have any intention of cutting spending now, you don’t understand the democrat party.

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#1 March 6, 2011 at 10:19 am
Bunker Mentality commented:

Shut it down.
#2 March 6, 2011 at 10:22 am
Joe's Garage commented:

This would be hysterical if it weren’t so horrifying. I watched Liberals all over the blogs making fun of Republicans for only cutting $65 billion from the budget. This, after Obama outspent Bush and pushed deficits into an almost impossible to reverse situation. Now they have nothing to say when their side offers this ridiculous nonsense.
#3 March 6, 2011 at 10:22 am
Sean Penn commented:

Dick Turban is already a proven traitor and politburo swine.
#4 March 6, 2011 at 10:24 am
StrangernFiction commented:

Communist
#5 March 6, 2011 at 10:32 am
regularguy commented:

More evidence that it will take several more election cycles of an educated, conservative citizenry excising the cancerous, liberal vermin from office. If we but can survive their assault on the country meanwhile.
#6 March 6, 2011 at 10:33 am
NickDeringer commented:

Asking Dems to cut spending is like asking Charlie Sheen to quit drinking and having sex with hookers.

Don’t you all see the parallel?
#7 March 6, 2011 at 10:39 am
Starrider commented:

Well, it looks like the democrats and republicans are going to play chicken to see who will tell the tax payers that Social Security, Medicare and the Defense Budget have to be cut. Obama will not lead because he only cares about his election for a second term so he won’t be the one to do it and the republicans will get fried by the socialist media if they call for it. Woe to us after the country goes bankrupt.
#8 March 6, 2011 at 10:40 am
Robert commented:

This is political malgovernance. These people are well on the way to ruining the nation, they are deluded narcissists who think that only they can provide the answers. Meanwhile, a mountain of debt is piling up while jobs are stagnant and inflation ramping up.

They do not deserve to have our tax dollars. Period.
#9 March 6, 2011 at 10:43 am
StrangernFiction commented:

No worries, the good cop will come to the rescue with a better offer — albeit without moving any numbers to the left of the decimal point — and will be heralded as a budget hawk.
#10 March 6, 2011 at 10:54 am
David commented:

“But what about the children?” My GOD… hasn’t that argument become as irrelevant as a liberal calling someone a racist because they disagree with their opinion…. come on!!!
#11 March 6, 2011 at 10:54 am
a former democrat commented:

As someone who used to be a lifelong democrat who is now an independent, I am convinced DC, DC dems are completely in their own tight bubble.

Dickie Durbin has no clue on the mood of the country. I saw this interview and almost threw my remote at the TV!

Are these people for real? What the hell is wrong with them?!? This country is screwed in 10 years…. do they have no freaking clue that in 5 years our interest payments will MORE than the annual GDP!!!!

I formally apologize for even ever registering as a democrat. I don’t trust the repubs either, but I am very scared for my country, I am socially libetarian, but I am very fiscally conservative, and am for limited govt. If that means pain for the short term, but fiscal sanity for the longer term, so be it.

Dickie Durbin and millionaire Pelosi will come out of all this ok, their kids will come out ok, their families will come out of this ok, its the rest of America, especially my generation, my kids generation who will have to sort through this crap.
And the man proposes only cutting freaking 10 billion?!?!?

and then says entitlements are the problem, ok, fine, then if the repubs or TP tries to have a reasonable plan so that SS and Medicare can be sustained for the long time, they cry and whine that the meanie repubs are doing something. I’m sick of it, I am so sick of listening to these fools!

As an independent I trust the TP & repubs more than the dems on most issues now (not social issues though, but scare tactics will not work anymore, there are bigger issues at stake)
I cannot believe I wasted time even listening to this fool Durbin. I am so tired of listening to the whining, the complaining.

The country is about to be hit by an iceberg while going over a cliff, and Durbin proposes that we should throw some of the dinner napkins overboard to lighten the load to help save the ship.
#12 March 6, 2011 at 10:54 am
Larkin commented:

dems insist publicly that money grows on trees, all the while knowing full well that they are foisting a fairy tale on a deluded public.

They are indeed criminal, as someone has already stated.
#13 March 6, 2011 at 10:55 am
Robert commented:

The Republican cuts are only 1.6% of the budget.

Try spending yourself to bankruptcy and getting out of it with a 2% cut in spending.

The federal government is insanity in action.
#14 March 6, 2011 at 11:10 am
Millitant Conservative commented:

#11 March 6, 2011 at 10:54 am
a former democrat commented:

Apology accepted.

Now then, wake up on the social issues. The Democrats are the ones that gave us the Compact Flouescent lighbulbs, 1.6 gallon flush toilets, all the gay marrage rights etc.

Wake up and smell the coffee, the left is a socialist organization. The person that created the sierra club left it. His reasons?? The sierra club was taken over by socialists.
This is how the evil hides and moves its agenda on a weak willed public.

Better prepare, this is not going to be just a voting fight. its going to get bloody. Not my choice, just the tactics of the leftists.

powder is dry.
#15 March 6, 2011 at 11:21 am
a former democrat commented:

“The Democrats are the ones that gave us the Compact Flouescent lighbulbs
(I don’t have an issue of those lightbulbs, what I have an issue with is banning the incandencent one and then forcing me to buy florucent mercury filled ones, and then the govt gives subsidies to those companies, both sets of lightbulbs should be available, no govt mandates, let it be market driven)

, 1.6 gallon flush toilets (this was a silly idea, mechanically it never made sense, I think San Francisco is now dealing with the clean up of this, especially the smell, costs to that city I think were 165 million, if a city wants to do something stupid like this, I have no issue, just don’t expect the federal govt to come bail this nonsensically expenses out. If the residents of san fransicico want to pay higher taxes to pay for this, I have no issues with it, what I have an issue with is the federal govt forces it on states govt with regulations)

, all the gay marrage rights etc. (while I am pro gay equal rights, I think marriage is between a man and a woman, if a state like MA wants to change that, ok, just like I’m ok with UT banning gay marriage, I am a strong supporter of the 10th amendent, I don’t think the federal govt can and should force states, ALL 50 states to say, ok now marriage means what we say it means, most Americans believe marriage as between a man and a woman, but are tolerant of civil unions.
if it comes to legal rights at a federal level, then fine, have a civil union rights which will mirror marriage rights, but let each state decided to approve or ban gay marriage); but don’t force every state to approve gay marriage, there will be some like MA and VT who will be fine with it, others like TX, UT, ND, SD who will not.
#16 March 6, 2011 at 11:24 am
StrangernFiction commented:

And then there is this:

http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2011/03/03/tea-party-voters-by-almost-2-1-oppose-social-security-cuts/

My advice to the R’s is to IGNORE THE POLLS AND DO WHAT IS RIGHT (a novel idea to be sure), but there is no way in hell this will happen.

Boned!
#17 March 6, 2011 at 11:31 am
Insanity commented:

The dumbest comment by Dick Durbin (and there are many) came in this interview:”We cannot cut, spend or tax ourselves out of this, we must THINK ourselves out of this”.
Please, lets all start thinking very hard, and the deficit will go away.
#18 March 6, 2011 at 11:31 am
a former democrat commented:

the key words are “significant cuts” to SS and Medicare.
I oppose that as well, those who are receiving it or are about to should not be affected, but it has to changed for younger folks, and it have to be on some scale based on income and age. People want SS and medicare preserved and strong for the future, but that cannot happen on the path that it is on now.

Like a ship, cannot just turn it quickly without massive damage to that ship, it has to be turned, but carefully and relatively slowly, country still has 5-10 years, but the longer we wait, the fewer choices will be available and the more painful those choices will be.
#19 March 6, 2011 at 11:32 am
Paul52 commented:

When the IL senator is referred to as “Little Dicky” Durbin, it’s for 2 reasons. #1 is his intellect, you can guess #2. Same guy who called our military folks “Nazis”. Beyond pathetic.
#20 March 6, 2011 at 11:38 am
gus commented:

You people need to put out the fukking fire first. DEMOCRATS are Communists. It’s really that simple. The LIBTARD PARTY has promised things to GROUPS. IT CANNOT BACK AWAY. The LIBTARD PARTIES very survival is in the hands of those it has promised YOUR MONEY TOO.

If WISCONSIN didn’t wake you people up, NOTHING will. The LIBTARDOCRAT 14 in WISCONSIN cannot and will not come back to the STATE until it’s HANDLERS the GOOOONION LEADERS give their ok. Obama made my point abundantly clear when he said he’d veto any bill that cut ABORTRIONS-R-US, Planned Parenthood funding. IT’S ABOUT GROUPS PEOPLE. Democrats are owned by groups.