As Republicans continue to obsess over losing their White House tour political perk ...
Sign the petition ! RT @GOP: Don't fall for @BarackObama's spending gimmicks. Re-open the people's house: http://bit.ly/... '' @Reince via Twitter for iPhone ... this is what's happening to regular people outside of the D.C. bubble:
The Army announced Friday it is suspending its tuition assistance program for soldiers newly enrolling in classes due to sequestration and other budgetary pressures.Of all things for Republicans to be going nuts about, losing the White House tours is the last one. Sequestration is causing real harm to real people, whether it's unemployed workers, children and mothers who need Head Start, or soldiers looking to enroll in the Army's tuition assistance program.
They could make all these problems go away'including the loss of their precious tours'with the blink of an eye. All they have to do is repeal sequestration. If they just repealed the damn thing, they wouldn't even have to raise taxes.
And if they want an equivalent amount of deficit reduction, they can get that too by replacing sequester with a combination of revenue and spending cuts. As President Obama has said more times than anybody cares to remember, his offer is still on the table. Republicans are the ones saying no, and even if White House tours are the only thing that pisses them off, they still have the option of doing something about it.
But instead of actually doing something, so far, they're just sitting on their hands.
2:18 PM PT: Tell Republicans: Please give a damn about people, not White House tours
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