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David Plouffe: Obama Will Speak On Long-Term Deficit Reduction Plan This Week

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White House Senior Advisor David Plouffe appeared on Meet the Press this morning and even though one budget fight might over, Plouffe made clear that President Obama is readying to tackle the longer-term budget issues. Later this week Obama will speak about a deficit-reduction strategy, but until then Plouffe defended the cost-cutting actions already taken by the President.

Plouffe argued that Obama’s budget for next year included many of the proposals from the deficit commission and would “reduce a trillion dollars over the next 10 years.” Furthermore, Plouffe claimed the healthcare reform is going to save a trillion dollars in the deficit over the next two years and made the point that if Republicans do intend to repeal healthcare reform, then such savings would be lost.

David Gregory pushed on the issue of entitlement reform and Plouffe admitted more needs to be done, teasing “that’s what the President’s going to lay out.”

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  • BatBoy

    David “Fluff” meant to say that the POTUS is getting the TPOTUS fired up to give a speech on a subject the POTUS does not believe in.

    Listen….then watch is actions…they have been the opposite for about 2 years now.

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    Where’s Goolsbee?
    I haven’t seen him since he bombed on the Daily Show…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Charles-Prather/100000453933554 Bone Daddy

    To suggest that the serial liar Barack Obama will seriously consider deficit reduction is sophomoric and laughable. This Fluffy statement is directed towards the ’12 election, and has nothing to do with truth. The Obama Cabal will continue spending and attempting to spend more as demonstrated by their unwillingness to accept all but the most minuscule of spending cuts during the past two weeks. Both liberalism and Marxism as espoused by Obama are mental diseases.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    a big thing they (obama) has to get through is an explanation, an easy explanation on how the new health care system is going to save money. i realize that getting more people paying into the system will generate the savings but people need to hear it explained how they will be better off joining a system or having their current insurance join into a plan to generate more money to cover the people in need of more services.
    one thing the democrats failed miserably at was the anemic response to ‘socialism’ and ‘death panels’ but even still if you look at the people who want to appeal it, about a quarter of those don’t think it went far enough…
    “It’s worth remembering that opposition to the bill came from both the left and the right last year, and that has not changed either,” says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. “In 2010, about a quarter of the health care bill’s opponents disliked the bill because it was not liberal enough – the same as today. That works out to 13 percent of all Americans who oppose the bill because it did not go far enough. Forty-three percent oppose it because it was too liberal.”http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/23/cnn-poll-time-doesnt-change-views-on-health-care-law/

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/23/cnn-poll-time-doesnt-change-views-on-health-care-law/

    that’s the link for the approve/disapprove.

    but if you add them together you have a majority that want to keep it and they just can’t seem to get that message across.

  • Moderate

    Obama was talking a 120 billion dollar deficit increase a few months ago. Is he moderating his attitude or just telling moderates what they want to hear.

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    Moderate said:
    Obama was talking a 120 billion dollar deficit increase a few months ago. Is he moderating his attitude or just telling moderates what they want to hear.

    He will “explain” like only he can that our backs are against the wall and we need to raise taxes…

  • Barack Must Go

    If you heard this guy speak on any one of the Sunday programs and he’s Obama’s go to guy, they’ll be jumping of the White House roof before Christmas, oops sorry, the Winter solstice.

    ………and BOOM goes the dynamite.

  • Probably NOT wrong

    Was this guys lips moving???

  • Arkansas Steve

    David should spell his last name FLUFF.
    He ignored Gregory’s questions & yakked away about his talking points.

    Oh, and Gregory is a disgrace to the memory of Tim Russert.

  • chatmandu002

    Oh, I can’t wait to hear from our Campaigner-in-Chief on how he is going to save us from all his spending and lack of leadership.

  • PC Kryptonite

    So, another segment of Obama blows smoke up our *ss?

  • PC Kryptonite

    ChiliPeppersFan said:
    one thing the democrats failed miserably at was the anemic response to ’socialism’ and ‘death panels’ but even still if you look at the people who want to appeal it, about a quarter of those don’t think it went far enough…“It’s worth remembering that opposition to the bill came from both the left and the right last year, and that has not changed either,” says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. “In 2010, about a quarter of the health care bill’s opponents disliked the bill because it was not liberal enough – the same as today. That works out to 13 percent of all Americans who oppose the bill because it did not go far enough. Forty-three percent oppose it because it was too liberal.”http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/23/cnn-poll-time-doesnt-change-views-on-health-care-law/

    How convenient you left out the part about it being totally unconstitutional, you know article 1 section 8 kind of stuff (enumerated powers.) Some of us understand that large government only destroys liberty. Pay for your own damn medical bills!

  • Barack Must Go

    Arkansas Steve said:
    David should spell his last name FLUFF.
    He ignored Gregory’s questions & yakked away about his talking points.

    Oh, and Gregory is a disgrace to the memory of Tim Russert.

    If you noticed Gregory was never on camera the whole time the French fart ( Pluff ) was droning on and on.

    That’s because he was on his knees under that dark black glass table ‘ cheering the living ______ out of him ‘ on.

    They do that for all the top shelf liberals now that their officially part of ObamaVision with Immelt in the White House. It seems to keep everybody happy during these stressful times.

  • J Baustian

    If Mr Obama was serious about deficit reduction, he would announce that — to borrow a term from Nixon press secretary Ron Ziegler — the FY2012 budget proposal he put forward two months ago was “inoperative”.

    You remember — the budget that totally ignored the 800,000-pound gorilla in the room?

  • Moderate

    Obama has gone back into campaign mode.

  • Barack Must Go

    Moderate said:
    Obama has gone back into campaign mode.

    Never left it..that one

  • daliyablumenthal

    For God sakes Obama tax the billionares or have them adopt a road or school or industry or hospital or camp of military or even the epa or something positive to get the usa on track. We wont get usa going on taxing welfare . Get on to the liberal traack please obamma or there is no point in voting democat. Bring back all the military camps all over the world and get the soldiers to build roads and highways and wind turbines and solar plants. Lets use the money for getting usa on track. Get going Obama and redistrubute some wealth. Leave the up to $1000000 people alone The rest can pay more and dont allow free rides for GE an others with clever lawyers. . Dont tax 401 ks for the first $6000 a month. Dont tax social security at all but dont pay it to people who have $10 000 a month free and clear of other funds. People earning more than $118.000 can pay for soical securuty even if they dont get it . Dont pay welfare checks to mothers if they dont get volutarily sterilized. If they cannot feed themselves or family and educate themselves or famiies do not allow them to get extra welfare for babies they should not bring to the world. Ask Seniors to make sure there is a living will so unscrupulous doctors and hospitals do not ring up procedures and surgeries etc that cannot help them. Reject illegals from schools and hospitals. Mke way for work permits if usa agrees to slave labout .Enforce education for all legal usa citizens to age of 16 . Trade schools and schools using more moden methods of learning will avoid kids dropping out. If kids drop out incarcerate them into trade schools instead of prisons. Get going Omama and stop being so friendly . Show your teeth in a snarl instead of a smile to your enemies. Your enemies are snakes. hyennais and wolves and you are behaving like a lamb.

    Please stop the subisides on destructive industries like corn syrup . tax all industires that cause ill health and obesity . Request healthy seniors and unemployed and and retired military. teachers and policemen to help in any cause they see fit. daliya

  • illusive man

    I remember when Obama said the new health care legislation would reduce the deficit by 143 billion over ten year’s.
    Then a little later, After the number’s could be properly crunched, It turned out that it would infact add 500 billion to the deficit over ten year’s.

    I think we all learned that when it comes to the numbers, Obama isn’t the guy we should listen to.

  • daliyablumenthal

    Sorry about above spelling mistakes. I am very angry.We are living in a feudal society with most of us serfs serving the lords of the manor and the nobles or the church. Obama help us get the gop out of out hair forever. daliya

  • illusive man

    daliyablumenthal said:
    Sorry about above spelling mistakes. I am very angry.We are living in a feudal society with most of us serfs serving the lords of the manor and the nobles or the church. Obama help us get the gop out of out hair forever. daliya

    LOL, So you want us to serve the lords and nobles of the state instead?
    Question, What is it with the left’s uncontrollable urge to be puppet’s of government?

  • CAconservative

    Saturday, Obimbo was at the Lincoln memorial, taking credit for getting the 2011 budget passed? How many laughable canards can you find in that statement?
    Can this clown-president get any more repugnant. I beleive this idiot is clinically-narcissistic, he’s showing all the signs.

  • andthehorseyourodeinon

    Oh good obummbler is going to ” speak” about the problem. We are tired of him “speaking” time to get of his ass and do something except travel, play basketball, play golf, travel, campaign.

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