Is Boehner Ready for the Budget Backlash?
Republicans may have signed up for the fight of a generation, without understanding how much is at stake - or how fierce the resistance is likely to be.
Here's another bit from Speaker Boehner's Thursday speech to the Economic Club of New York that commands some attention:
There's another myth I need to address, and that is the myth that addressing our debt challenges requires ‘pain.’ Addressing our debt requires action. ‘Pain’ comes only from inaction.
Can he believe that?
If so, it's disturbing to think that Republicans may have signed up for the fight of a generation, without understanding how much is at stake - or how fierce the resistance is likely to be from those who, yes, will feel the very real plain implied by cutting out of the deficit the "trillions" mentioned by Boehner in that same speech, without any of the tax offsets the speech explicitly ruled out.
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