Boehner Unloads At Conservative Groups That Oppose The Budget Deal: 'This Is Ridiculous!'

[compromise]

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) snapped at conservative groups that have come out in opposition to the budget deal reached Wednesday between Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.).
"They're using the American people for their own purposes. This is ridiculous," Boehner said at a press conference with other members of House Republican leadership on Wednesday.

Over the past few days, a number of conservative groups have blasted the deal because it sets discretionary spending levels in the budget higher than previous levels under sequestration.

In the past three days, the influential Heritage Action, Club for Growth, Americans for Prosperity, and FreedomWorks have all signaled they would oppose the deal. They have all argued that while imperfect, the sequester has provided the only effective check on the Obama administration's spending.

The legislation provides $63 billion in sequester relief over two years, which is split evenly between defense and non-defense programs. This is offset by targeted spending cuts and non-tax revenues that total $85 billion. It reduces the deficit by a total of $20 billion to $23 billion.

When Boehner was asked in the press conference about the conservative groups, he cut off the reporter asking the question.

"You mean the groups that came out opposed to it before they ever saw it?" he said. "... If you're for more deficit reduction, you're for this agreement."

Soon after the press conference, the groups denounced Boehner's comments. Club for Growth President Chris Chocola said that the group stood with the likes of Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), and Rand Paul (R-Ky.), all of whom oppose the deal.

"After carefully reviewing the budget deal, on which we never commented until it was complete, we determined that it would increase the size of government," Chocola said. "We support pro-growth proposals when they are considered by Congress. In our evaluation, this isn’t one of those."

Dan Holler, a spokesman for Heritage Action, echoed Chocola's sentiments.

“Americans are deeply concerned about the direction of the country. Over the next few days, lawmakers will have to explain to their constituents, many of whom are our members, what they’ve achieved by increasing spending, increasing taxes and offering up another round of promises waiting to be broken," Holler told Business Insider.

"That will be a really tough sell back home. Meanwhile, we’ll continue fighting to achieve our goal, which is create an America where freedom, opportunity, prosperity and civil society flourish.”

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/budg...eritage-club-for-growth-2013-12#ixzz2nCAiQkab

 

[jkr]

#UNLOADboner

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

John Boehner has to be one of the worse Speaker of the House, since Nancy Pelosi & John Dennis "Denny" Hastert.... ahhhh, ALL OF THEM.

Boehner files for reelection:

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[Christian Liberty]

How stupid does someone have to be?

Is Marco Rubio actually opposing the bill? If so, that's a somewhat good sign. Not that I'd ever, ever support him, but maybe he actually is a little better on fiscal issues than the likes of Romney/Christie?

 

[AuH20]

Do these guys think we're dumb? This is hilarious to watch.

 

[Christian Liberty]

Do these guys think we're dumb? This is hilarious to watch.

The thing is "we" are only 10% of the population, or so. 90% of the population probably is that dumb. Or at least, doesn't pay attention. I think if I asked some of my conservative family and friends if they thought that trading spending hikes now for promises of cuts later, they'd probably say it wasn't. Yet they mostly still think of Paul Ryan as a conservative.

 

[compromise]

How stupid does someone have to be?

Is Marco Rubio actually opposing the bill? If so, that's a somewhat good sign. Not that I'd ever, ever support him, but maybe he actually is a little better on fiscal issues than the likes of Romney/Christie?

He has a fairly strong record on fiscal issues.
http://congress.freedomworks.org/legislators/marco-rubio

Roughly the same on military intervention and foreign aid though:
http://borgenproject.org/senator-marco-rubio/
http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-b...should-still-try-to-arm-syrian-rebels/2140934
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...lary-clinton-s-foreign-policy-but-better.html

 

[juleswin]

They say its going to cut the sequester, raise military and domestic spending while cutting the deficit.

 

[Origanalist]

 

[Lucille]

...

They say its going to cut the sequester, raise military and domestic spending while cutting the deficit.

It's magic!

I'll just put this here too, since it deserves repeating.

Do you really need more proof? The Republican Party and Democratic Party are nothing but illusions of choice used to distract the masses from the fact that they work together to protect the interests of the corporate fascists and banking cabal that run this country like a plantation. Paul Ryan is supposed to be the brilliant young fiscal conservative. Give me a fucking break. This asshole just agreed to repeal $63 billion of real cuts for some fake spending rate reductions ten years from now that will never happen. We are running $1 trillion per year deficits today, with spending on automatic pilot to increase at an even greater rate due to the aging of the Boomers. Ryan and the despicable Republicans restored the cuts because they hurt their friends within the Military Industrial Complex the most. Every politician in Washington DC is bought and sold by the corporate and special interests that bribe them the most.

The idiot MSM is proclaiming a new era of cooperation. The era of cooperation has never ended. The Democrats have cooperated and allowed a Warfare State to be built on a mountain of debt. The Republicans have cooperated and allowed a Welfare State to be built on the same mountain of debt. Who hasn’t been cooperating? Those dastardly Libertarians who control nothing?

Just think for a second about what this DEAL has accomplished. They have supposedly cut $23 billion from future deficit projections over ten fucking years. That is $2.3 billion per year. The National Debt goes up by $2.5 billion every fucking day. This is a pathetic joke and anyone who isn’t outraged is either brain dead or a part of the Party.

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

80% realize the shell game by the establishment elite politicians. Ryan is making a joke out of himself... not like we here of RPF already knew he was a phony and the rest of the party of one 'RINO ELITIST'.

Poll Results: Is Rep. Paul Ryan right when he says the budget deal is a step in "the right direction"? - Washington Times

 

[Lucille]

"the final surrender of the House Republican leadership to beltway politics."

 

[eduardo89]

Is Marco Rubio actually opposing the bill? If so, that's a somewhat good sign. Not that I'd ever, ever support him, but maybe he actually is a little better on fiscal issues than the likes of Romney/Christie?

Rubio is generally good on domestic spending.

 

[WM_in_MO]

The thing is "we" are only 10% of the population, or so. 90% of the population probably is that dumb. Or at least, doesn't pay attention. I think if I asked some of my conservative family and friends if they thought that trading spending hikes now for promises of cuts later, they'd probably say it wasn't. Yet they mostly still think of Paul Ryan as a conservative.

90% of the population doesn't care.
90% of those who do care are that stupid.

 

[Root]

Bohner sounds like a fucking whiner. Grow a pair already.

 

[Lucille]

Bohner sounds like a fucking whiner. Grow a pair already.

 

[jkr]

 

[jkr]

 

[Dary]

I think John needs to have his meds adjusted.

The guy is an emotionally, unstable mess. If I were his physician, I'd recommend he take a break from politics for a while.

 

[angelatc]

"the final surrender of the House Republican leadership to beltway politics."

This is typical Ryan though. And yet the party base still bitches because we wouldn't support Romney/Ryan in the general. What would have been the point?