House Republicans will release their coach outlet store spending plan this spring, probably in April.Still, debate on the national debt and spending cuts indicates just how much the political winds have shifted in Washington, with both Democrats and Republicans arguing not over the spending priorities, but over how much should be cut.“We’re having a great debate in Congress about how much spending should be cut,’’ Ryan said. “How cool is that?’’The National Republican Congressional Committee yesterday sent out dozens of press releases — heavy with red text — that attacked Democrats they consider shop online 2011 vulnerable, including two from Massachusetts — William Keating, of Quincy, and Niki Tsongas, of Lowell. Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell pummeled Obama’s proposal as “a patronizing plan,’’ and then ridiculed his pitch to invest in high-speed rail and clean energy. “It’s a plan that says fulfilling the president’s vision of a future of trains and windmills is more important than a balanced checkbook,’’ McConnell said on the Senate floor.Yet, like the president, Republicans have so far concentrated their cuts on domestic discretionary spending, shying away from deep cuts in the large — and largely sacrosanct — sections of the budget: national defense and entitlement programs such as Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security.Prada handbag 2011 Republicans have also ruled out tax increases. Such an approach ties the hands of budget cutters. “You can’t get blood from a rock,’’ said Steve Ellis, vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a nonpartisan budget watchdog. “At some point, they’re going to run out of how much they can cut.’’
Representative Paul Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican and chairman of the House Budget Committee, would not say yesterday whether the House budget for fiscal year 2012 would deal with entitlement changes, and offered no details on what types of cuts they would make. Representative Barney Frank, a Newton Democrat, said the GOP proposal could also hamper Wall Street regulators, who have more responsibility than ever under the Dodd-Frank financial reform law passed by Congress last year.
The GOP has called for cuts to the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. If the cuts are enforced, Frank said, “the Securities and Exchange Commission will not be able to do [the job] the law gave them to do, which is protecting investors.’’Republicans are intent on extending this week’s battle into the 2012 coach handbags elections.