To give you a good idea of just how astoundingly weak Boehner’s proposal is, consider that the budget deficit for February of this year ALONE was $223 Billion, or almost four times the amount that the Speaker proposes to cut by year’s end.
Even if the Senate agrees to sign on to these cuts, Obama’s obscene spending policies will still add another $1.6 Trillion to our already crippling and unsustainable $14.2 Trillion national debt.
Add to that, the fact that the President has crafted a monstrously irresponsible $3.7 Trillion budget for fiscal year 2012, and Boehner ‘s $61 Billion scheme is exposed for the pathetic monetary joke that it is.
To put it bluntly, if the Republican leader of the House is not willing to propose at least $700 Billion in cuts this year in the hopes that he may be able to strike a $350 Billion deal down the road, then he has no business being Speaker, or even being a member of the GOP leadership.
Sure, I understand that the Speaker of the House has no power to force the democrat-controlled Senate or the President to accept such a proposal, but he does have the authority to set the budget-cutting negotiations bar as high as he likes.
I ask you, why allow the Democrat leadership to malign and demonize you over a mere $61 Billion in proposed budget reductions when they could easily be maligning and demonizing you over a number many times higher than that?
At the end of the day, you’d have to be the most inept haggler in the world not to get at least a quarter of a Trillion dollars in cuts out of the bastards, and what’s more, they’d come away from the experience understanding that you actually are what you said you were in November.
Unfortunately for us all, John Boehner is not what he claimed to be during the conservative electoral tsunami of 2010.
In fact, he is a demonstrably unmotivated, unremarkable and unserious individual. who’s just made it painfully clear that he has no intention of confronting the tax-and-spend left in any appreciable way.
Edward L. Daley
Boehner is on the hairy edge of proving to be a failure.
I know Newt is persona non grata on FR but he definitely knew how to play rough when he was house leader.
the problem here is that they are approaching this wrong.
to say they are introducing cuts... presupposes all the programs are already ‘in’. this is exactly opposite how it should be approached.
the US govt brings in roughly $2 trillion in revenue. subtract interest on the existing debt to be paid in the coming calendar year... and you have about $1.9 trillion to spend. assuming you wish to pay down the debt at all, which is currently $14 trillion, subtract another $200 billion (which is a drop in the $14 trillion bucket.. but it’s something).
this would leave $1.7 trillion for the coming years budget.
NOW... what do you wish to buy?
you only have $1.7 trillion to spend. no more. less would be good.
this way, EVERY govt spending program would have to vie for spending dollars.
how far from where we are now is this thinking? well, we are spending roughly $4.5 trillion per year right now.
stop the debt increase now, or this country will suffer the exact same fate as the USSR... which collapsed in a 4 day period due to its debt.
Baloney.
This guy Boehner has to live in the real world where the Senate and the White House are controlled by the party of abortion and big government. The real test will come after we flush Ubama and the Senate rats down the toilet.
nothing but smoke and mirrors from him....he will sacrafice any principle to be able to be on friendly terms with Michelle and have the big zero call him now and then to pet him on his had...Obummer’s lap dog pretty much, all part of the DC Shuffle.
The Big Boo
The dems want Boehner and the new Republican House majority to spend the next two years doing banzai charges against Social Security and Medicare. Does anyone here really think that is how we'll win the 2012 elections?
We face an opposition that intends to deny the inevitable right until the nation hurtles into bankruptcy, demogogue every effort at reform, and then use the crisis to massively raise taxes and socialize what is left of the economy. They are executing that strategy in a perfectly consistent way. About 20% of the country understands this; this is the hard-core conservative base, but we're not enough. Boehner is playing to win in 2012. So are the dems. All the current sound and fury about domestic discretionary spending is tactical; the end game is entitlement reform.
In the short term, it is a shame that Mike Pence is choosing to go for the IN governorship. He would be the PERFECT House Speaker. In the long run, he will be well positioned to be a great Presidential candidate, so it may pay dividends later. My only sadness is that we need national leadership NOW in the worst way.
My current tagline describes the main point of this article, I think.
DNC=RNC=McCain=Boehner=Obama
I do not know who is ‘really’ running things, but I don't think it is any of these guys.
They all act like a gaggle of ‘employees’ working together at a Kroger constantly worried about being reprimanded by upper management.
Not just him...the whole GOP is a joke. Conservatives no longer have representation.
When in the heat of battle, you find your army in full retreat, you must do 2 things:
First, you must stop the retreat and hold the line. Then, you can muster your forces for a counter attack.
I am tired of accounting tricks and cost of living and inflation adjustments. These are nothing but smokescreens. I want only 2 numbers...What did the government spend last year, and what is it going to spend this year??? no accounting tricks or adjustments...just mean gross numbers
to stop the tide of overwhelming advances on debt, we must first stop spending. If this years number is equal to or lower than last years number, we have stopped retreating, and can spend a year mustering our counterattack. It would appear to me that this budget not only stops the advance, but begins the counterattack.
People need to stop with the hysterics and calmly look at the situation as it is developing. Now, about those 2 numbers I asked for.......does anyone know what they are???
Levin: Why is Boehner being a coward?
Posted by The Right Scoop on Mar 11, 2011 in Politics
Levin explains that the last Congress is trying to control the spending habits of future Congresses through this hidden ObamaCare funding, and Boehner, despite already breaking a rule to stop other appropriations, refuses to break the same rule to stop this funding. Thus Levin asks why is Boehner being a coward.
He adds that any Representative that votes for this CR is voting to fund ObamaCare, and he’ll see to it that they have to answer for it in their districts. He also adds, ‘grow a pair’.
Audio:
http://www.therightscoop.com/levin-why-is-boehner-being-a-coward/