Posted on 01/22/2013 4:43:45 PM PST by andyk
Speaker John Boehner told House Republicans this afternoon that the GOP’s upcoming budget will balance the federal books in a decade.
Due to the Democrats’ control of the White House and Senate, the possibility of that promise becoming law is remote. But the speaker’s vocal support for the idea reportedly drew cheers within the House Republican conference.
According to sources in the room, Boehner made the pledge at a closed-door meeting in the Capitol basement. The speaker said that Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the budget committee chairman, will lead the effort.
Boehner’s commitment is a signal to House conservatives that the speaker is listening to their demands. Behind the scenes, backbenchers have been pushing Boehner and Eric Cantor, the majority leader, to endorse a 10-year balanced budget.
On Wednesday, insiders say, most conservative lawmakers will begrudgingly back a three-month extension of the debt limit. But before Boehner could finalize the whip count, he needed to make this fiscal assurance in return.
"We can do it in ten years"
"We can do it in nine years"
"We can do it in eight years"
"We can do it in seven years"
Anyone else get deja vu?
Is it raining or is the feckless John Boehner peeing on my leg?
As noble a goal as this might be, unless Obama was serious when he stated he would be working more with Republicans in his second term (ROTFLMAO), a better use of Boehner’s efforts would be to actually come up with a strategy to stop Obama’s leftist agenda.
Considering Paul Ryan’s (publicly panned by liberals and media) budget plan wouldn’t balance the budget until after 2040 — and it failed to receive unanimous Republican support in the House and received NO Democratic support in the Senate — Boehner has declared himself even more insignificant if he is going to waste efforts pushing un-passable bills while passing Continuing (spending) Resolutions and increasing our federal credit limits.
This is beyond "kicking the can down the road". - Tom
Conservatives have more votes this term so Boehner has to try harder to keep them happy.
But if he doesn’t get RESULTS that please them he’ll be failing them- and the Party too.
Republicrat moron.
Any bets on nothing happening for the first 5 years?After that it won’t matter.
Any bets on nothing happening for the first 5 years?After that it won’t matter.
Yeah, Bonehead. Nice try. Go back to your tanning bed.
What are you going to do this year John?
Yeah. And this is a bad case of it. Boehner is pretty much saying "We have this plan that can't pass - sure to excite the proles back home!"
Pretty funny when a politician admits his "promise" is bullshit.
There is no 10 year balanced budget. It is a myth. It is a lie. it is either balanced this year or it will not be balanced. The acts of the present Congress cannot bind future Congresses, even if they consist of the same Congressmen.The only way to balance the budget is to reduce the debt limit. Now.
He DOES talk a good fight.
I’ve had it with the Republicans. These guys are totally useless.
Never gonna happen. All the while our national debt grows exponentially until we finally get cut off by our foreign creditors.
More BS — no action. It’s BONER again. Shame on the fools that put him back in the Speaker position.
Lol, ok whatever, little John.
This could pass the house , but never get past the senate and the bummer,
Thanks, Republicans
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