“It’s often not wise to shoot for the king unless you can kill him”
Boehner is pretty unpretentious and he ain’t that smart, but the guy has alot of heart and wants to the do right thing. I don’t think he has ever done an earmark on a bill. I think he got burned the last time, I’ll be surprised if he does it again.
He want’s to kill deductions and decrease spending. If it works it may get us closer to a flat tax. Politically it may sound like getting rid of deductions it is a tax increase, and decreasing spending is called reducing waste.... we’ll see.
Boehner’s a complete, sniveling, sellout. He had a massive tea party congress come in in 2010, and all he did was try to neuter them, making absolutely no actual cuts to the federal budget at all.
I suspect they’ve got some pretty good stuff on him, because he couldn’t be more eager to please Barry—even though he sometimes postures in the press for us rubes.