# Obama freezes federal worker pay for 2 years **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [November 29, 2010, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-freezes-federal-worker-pay-for-2-years/562301 "2010-11-29T17:43:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 233
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-freezes-federal-worker-pay-for-2-years/562301/233 "2010-12-01T18:03:47Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Speaking of sacred cows,[all 42 GOP Senators just signed a letter](http://republican.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Blogs.View&Blog_Id=d2fd96b0-535d-49ab-9e12-5f204fb330dc) saying they would refuse to allow any legislation to even be considered by the Senate until the Bush tax cuts are extended for everyone. Unfortunately, another false statement. See my previous about the continuing budget resolution, made necessary by Obama and the Democratically-controlled Congress’ failure to pass a budget for 2010. See also what was mentioned previously - Democrats want to hike taxes with no corresponding spending cuts. > [@Dinsdale](#): > > You don’t see any difficulty with your demanding specifics from those you disagree with, while forcing them to beg any details out of you? > > Carry on - I’m done. Well, if you want to ask a question and then run away from the answer, I can’t see much difficulty. Democrats in Congress are doing pretty much exactly what I said they would. Whether or not you find it provocative that I point it out is less important to me than you apparently believe it should be. I suppose the next step in the dance is for the Dems to start with “We won’t let a budget resolution pass and it’s the Republicans fault the government is shutting down” crap. Clinton made that work, at least with the less gifted among the electorate, but Obama is nowhere near the politician Clinton was. Maybe the Dems think it’s worthwhile to pass a tax hike and thus deny the GOP a win, and then hope they can shove the blame for a government shut-down off onto someone else. Regards, Shodan --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-freezes-federal-worker-pay-for-2-years/562301)._