(((JonathanWeisman))) on Twitter: "Ah, who could forget 2001, when deficit-conscious Republicans asked for a trigger that would halt the tax cuts if surplus forecasts fell short? They didn't get one, voted yes anyway, and we were back in deficit within a year.… https://t.co/Qeg5kES7lj"

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1. Andrew Taylor‏ @APAndrewTaylor 27 Nov 2017
  
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  But these are deficits now Jonathan.
  
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1. jimmy williams‏ @Jimmyspolitics 27 Nov 2017
  
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  oh I was on the Floor for this and I remember...it was BS then and it's BS now...
  
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1. Ed Lorenzen‏ @CaptainPAYGO 27 Nov 2017
  
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  Rejecting a trigger in current environment means White House and leadership don't believe commitment made to Senate deficit hawks that the bill won't add to the deficit.
  
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1. Knowledge is power. ‏ @kita_L725 27 Nov 2017
  
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  2001 is also year they started the war we are still in because they said there were WMDs (but there weren’t). The war Sarandon thought Hillary would put us in that we’ve been in 16+ years!
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1. Dave Johnson‏ @dcjohnson 27 Nov 2017
  
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  Here is your own paper quoting Bush saying that deficits were the point of the cuts:http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/25/us/president-asserts-shrunken-surplus-may-curb-congress.html …
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1. Thomas Smith‏ @HoneyBadger1962 27 Nov 2017
  
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  Huh, my memory must be failing me. Did anything happen in 2001 that might have thrown off 10-year budget projections from CBO?
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1. bubele‏ @kenaviba 27 Nov 2017
  
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  @KevinMFeeney @CaptainPAYGO @WSJ We shifted to war economy in late 2001.
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1. John Feehery‏ @JohnFeehery 27 Nov 2017
  
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  Trigger is a dead horse. I think that was my line back then. When 9/11 hit that was the end of the surplus, and rightfully so.
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1. Adam Reed‏ @ReedAdamP 27 Nov 2017
  
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  Falling short is the point. Nuke the budget this year, use the resulting crisis as a pretense to gut Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security next year.
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1. #BillionDollarLoser aka Individual 1‏ @NetworkSomelier 27 Nov 2017
  
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  It's called short term memory
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