popular republican policy is. mr. boehner tweeted this morning americans want spending cuts, quote, are not in a mood to increase taxes. then he linked to this poll. this poll right here. just relieved yesterday. it is about the mandatory spending cuts in the sequester and whether people are noticing them yet and it does include this, quote, generally voters by 53 to 37 prefer to reduce the deficit by cutting programs and services than mostly by raising taxes. one saying, quote, voters are in no mood to increase taxes. that is a real poll that shows finally the republican budget strategy, the republicans want congress and the president to slash spending and not raise another dime in revenues. right? that after months sharing the public wants to raise taxes than take a weed whacker to the
finally a poll saying fire up the weed whacker. go for the spending and no more taxes and fiscal cliff deal was enough. that would be very cheering news for republicans. you would understand exactly why speaker boehner is excited except if you read the poll. this poll, the poll that john boehner really wants you to see, is actually just like all of the other polls. now it s true. voters would rather cut spending for energy than raise taxes and rather cut unemployment insurance than raise taxes which seems to me to be a shame. in those two categories, voters would rather cut money than raise new revenue. but voters say they would rather raise taxes and cut money from medicaid and prefer cutting taxes to money for roads and bridges and transportation. voters say raise taxes instead of cutting money for medicare one of our most popular programs. by an even wider margin voters say we should raise taxes rather than cut social security. grandma and cat food not a popular idea. by an even wid
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what that tells me is she was killed somewhere else and brought there. i m thinking i m not seeing the trauma that i should be seeing if this was a baseball bat attack. it wasn t there. i m seeing something else. nothing up here. no real bumps, bruises, anything on the top? no weapons or anything in the area? no. she s got the swelling and she s got the bleeding from the nose, but that s not that serious an injury. i think strangulation might be the deal. then we received another lead that sounded promising. a patrol officer brought us information about a guy with a weed whacker that cut people s lawns and people s grass in the area. i gave this information to jeff. he lives down around the street. i don t know his name. he knows his name, the old guy, he came on the property all of the time.
if the republicans gain control of the senate and let s say we elect a republican president in 2012, can any of this be adjusted or is this the 10-year plan? no, it can be adjusted. of course it can. yeah, they can override whatever is decided today or tomorrow, you can override that with fresh legislation from a different senate and a different president. that s what conservatives are hoping for because the only way to unwind obama care, for example, the only way to unwind entitlement spending and all the rest of it is to have a clean sweep of conservatives and republicans, free market types to believe in reducing our debt. let s talk about the sweep. you are the ultimate fiscal weed whacker in the united states. let s get through the weeds. a lot of people i m talking about, just regular folks are saying who are these people? moody s, standard & poor s, who are these other americans to speak in such an ill way about our finances in the united