At a news conference New York Sen. Chuck Schumer,
Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower.
D-N.Y., agreed, "I happen to think some of their cuts are extreme and go overboard. But every week they keep upping the ante and proposing extreme cuts."
Whoa! That's so extreme!

Every week they send an email to the mailing list, asking for votes on several suggested cuts (with the amount of the savings over a given period of time noted) and suggestions for more. So they sneakily act with the confidence that voters support the proposals. Quite unlike Senator Schumer and his pals, who have only principle ("there's more money where that came from" and "benefits for support groups" mostly) and political habits to sustain them.

Over the next decade the cuts are expected to save hundreds of billions of dollars.

The deal mandates a host of studies and audits of B.O. regime policies. It also blocks additional funds for the IRS sought by the B.O. regime and bans federal funding of abortion in Washington, D.C.

The history of offers on this bill goes something like this. Democrats first offered no cuts, then $4 billion, then $6.5 billion, then $33 billion, then settled at $38.5 billion.

House Speaker John It is not pronounced 'Boner!' Boehner
... the occasionally weepy leader of House Republicans...
made numerous adjustments to his offer in recent days too, but started at $32 billion, then with a Tea Party push went to $62 billion, then dropped to $40 billion, then $38.5 billion.

Democrats claimed they met Republicans halfway after the $10 billion in cuts that already passed this year were approved. They settled late Friday night at three and a half times more.