House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) said that, if the GOP takes control of the House in November, they would propose a new spending cut every week.
To which I say, they’d damn well better do at least that — but it won’t matter if they don’t make any actual spending cuts, rather than just paying lip service to proposed spending cuts.
Boehner’s comments indicate that House Republicans intend to make good on a central part of the “Pledge to America” governing document they rolled out last month.
In the pledge, Republicans propose cutting spending by repealing the Democrats’ healthcare law, instituting budget caps, reforming government-controlled housing lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, cutting non-discretionary spending to 2008 levels and canceling “all future TARP payments.”
Republicans have made government spending a key issue on the campaign trail, where they are hoping to regain control of the House after they lost it in 2006 and experienced further losses in 2008. They argue that spending levels have skyrocketed under President Obama and the Democrat-controlled Congress, causing the federal budget deficit and national debt to reach dangerous levels.
Our government doesn’t have a revenue problem — they have an out-of-control spending problem. And the only way to solve it is to quit fucking spending money that 1) we don’t have, and 2) you’ve over-stepped your Constitutional powers to spend in the first place.
And if the new majority GOP doesn’t uphold their duty to cut spending, and instead reverts back to their old ways (during the Bush administration, when the GOP controlled the House for six years, spending spiraled out-of-control), we’ll put them out on their asses in 2012, too.
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