How about cutting ONE trillion by the end of the year?
Boehner may fail in his current endeavor with a newer bill, but the GOP passed something that would work. The Democrats are the ones blocking CCB.
The media seems to be focusing on the "GOP block" which is currently causing trouble for Boehner -- the media is doing this so as to paint the GOP as unreasonable trouble-makers who won't allow a solution to pass.
We are not the problem.
Plays right into the Democrats hands. “The Republicans were willing to work on a compromise but the fringe tea party kooks and their representatives shut down the government and threw grandma in the street.”
I am tired of the GOP thinking that we do not need to make big budget cuts now.
We are borrowing $.42 of every dollar we spend.
An across-the-board, 15% cut of every federal agency and grant would be far more legitimate than Boehner’s proposal.
If we don’t start cutting now then all of these promises of cuts later ring utterly hollow.
How in the world can they only find $6B in cuts? That’s pretty much a rounding error.
These people aren’t serious, it’s all politics and that’s why there will be a downgrade.
The pole position of Speaker of the House is in play...can y’all say Speaker Cantor...
We will get the balanced budget amendment in 2013, no presidential anything required. There will be a wipe out for Dem senators this election cycle ergo BBA passes the senate in 2013
There will be a short term 11th hour fix which will lift the debt ceiling and kick the can a little bit further down the road but this will lead to an S&P downgrade (if they're true to their word).
None of the proposals really come close to achieving what the ratings agencies are looking for apart from Coburn's proposal.
All Boehner needs is to cut so little that the Democrats will vote for it.
Dem-RINO Coalition
BTW, this is the first big public rift with the conservative caucus from Boehner, who has to pay attention to them.
Oh, yeah....PREACH it, Jim! You're speaking for US, your constituents.
Voters are not amused and will not be fooled. Better live up to the promises that got you elected or you won’t be back. Guaranteed.
OK. All of you. Listen up. The Majority Weasel, errr, Leader has spoken! Quit whining and get behind the Speaker’s plan!
PING
This is the second lie Boehner has been caught in. This is the second time accounting gimmicks have been found and revealed it’s not even close to the minicule savings they even go on record with.
I want House Republicans to call for new elections of the leadership right now.
This is insane. The Dems and the MSM will hang the economy on Republicans.
Just get what you can and let’s get this idiot out of office in 2012.
This is the problem. We need to have another election. Boot out the dems and rinos. There’s not much we can do, other than compromise. Do you think Harry Reid will pass a conservative bill and obama will sign it? I know we’re all biting at the bit to pass conservative legislation, but, really, it’s not going to happen right now.
People, look at reality. We don’t have the senate, we don’t have the Presidency. All we can do is block and compromise. It’s reality. We are not going to pass any meaningful cuts or reduction until we change the congress and president. Deal with it. Get what we can now, work to remove these idiots, and pass real cuts next time. Elect more tea party candidates.
We don’t control all three branches of gov.
As regards the “debt limit”, the irony is that most of this money isn’t really being borrowed. It is simply being printed. Only a few hundred billion is actually Treasuries being sold to entities other than the FED.
Besides the massive “purchasing” by the FED that is publicly admitted, the FED is buying substantial amounts through proxies in an attempt to hide the fact that no one is buying our debt. The joke is that Moodys and darn near everyone else knows this. The credit rating is an incredible farce that is fooling no one but the American people.
A very quick way to lower the deficit by a huge amount would simply be to bar the FED from buying any Treasuries in any fashion. The deficit would drop to $300 billion overnight.