FoxNews: House Speaker John Boehner stepped into the ring with the conservative flank Wednesday, calling their complaints about the newly unveiled budget plan "ridiculous."Hmmm, I seem to recall a different message from a different Johnny...
The speaker was reacting to groups like FreedomWorks which have blasted the budget "deal" as a farce that jacks up spending in the short-term in exchange for promises of additional cuts years from now.
Boehner, trying to keep the complaints at bay long enough to win support for the plan in the House, lashed out at those organizations during a press conference Wednesday.
Giving Congress a mere 36 hours to review the budget bill, now John Boehner is demonizing any opposition to this short timeframe. His past self would disagree with this move.
If the bill is good, why the short time frame?
I believe David Stockman called it exactly like it is: 'it's a joke and betrayal!'
CNBC: House Republicans "capitulated" in agreeing to the two-year budget deal reached last night and left the country to deal with an unsustainable fiscal situation until the peak of the presidential primaries in 2015, when nothing will get done, former federal budget director David Stockman told CNBC on Wednesday.Paul Ryan's not off the hook either...
"First, let's be clear—it's a joke and betrayal," Stockman, who served under President Ronald Reagan, said on "Squawk on the Street." "It's the final surrender of the House Republican leadership to Beltway politics and kicking the can and ignoring the budget monster that's hurtling down the road."
RedState: What Ryan has done in this budget deal that will now be rammed through the House with the same regard for conservative sensibilities as Obamacare is destroyed any way of restraining spending on Obamacare. He has done this because his ego demanded that he cut a deal. He didn’t particularly care what the deal was so long as no one in the media could call him an obstructionist. He wanted to be popular and to be seen as “governing.”
In this deal he has approved the spending of $60 billion per year, minimum, in return for $2 billion per year maximum (the $20 billion is over a decade) deficit reduction that is not based on spending cuts but on higher taxes, or “fees” as he calls them. Paul Ryan has played us all for chumps. He’s coasted to a very conservative voting record by making meaningless votes to defund Obamacare all the while pushing the increased federal spending he professes to abhor.
