John Boehner Demands Weekly Spending Cuts For Eternity
What is America's favorite alcoholic, chain-smokin' orange mutant mumbling about this time? New spending cuts every week, forever! That is his Pledge to America. Also: "Gitmo stays open until the ocean eventually gobbles up Cuba." When this happens it will be renamed "Gitmo Underwater."
Should they take control of the House in the midterm elections, House Republicans would propose a spending cut every week, their leader said Monday.
According to the Palm Beach Post, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) told an audience at an event for South Florida GOP congressional candidate Allen West that if they win a majority, "you'll see us every single week move bills that will cut spending."
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.
He's a brave man. Because to balance the budget (assuming that's the point), he'll need to cut $27,000,000,000 each week. At that rate, the entire Defense Department will be gone in six months. All of Social Security in another six.
Wanna take military, retirement &amp; debt expense off the table? (That&#039;s the normal formulation for Repubicans.) Then <strong>all other federal spending must be cut to zero</strong>. WOW, I did that in 5 minutes! It was gonna take Boehner a year to figure it out.
Sign me up. I&#039;m not very tall so it will pretty much a straight shot for me.