Boehner’s Boner Version 3.0 Passes While Democrats Continue To Stall

J.J. Jackson | July 30, 2011 

Last night, the latest version of Boehner’s Boner, version 3.0 and yet another bill which does not truly provide solutions to the problem of rampant spending, passed the House.  Enough self-professed conservatives joined Boehner and decided it was time to give up the ruse of themselves as fiscally conservative defenders of our tax dollars.

Boehner’s Boner version 3.0 still cuts just $900 billion dollars over 10 years from $10-$15 trillion in spending.  Pathetic.  It would also raise the debt limit short term.  More pathetic.  It did add some cryptic attempt at a Balanced Budget Amendment, not approval of one, as a condition to raise the debt limit further but that is just another puff of smoke.  Pathetic, pathetic, pathetic.

The Senate has promptly tabled Boehner’s Boner Version 3.0 and Harry Reid does not even want a vote in the Senate on his own bill unless he can get agreement that its passage would take only a simple majority.  Harry Reid’s plan, as we are all aware of,  ”cuts” a couple trillion fantom dollars from future spending.  Like Boehner Version 3.0 it will ballon our debt to over $20 trillion quicker than you can say your favorite swear word to describe members of Congress.

Once again, the Republicans are negotiating with themselves.  President Obama demands that any deal “compromise” with him and gives him what he wants.  Senator Reid has announced the same intentions.  And the liberal Republicans are moving their plans further and further towards what the liberal Democrats want.

But what do we know?  Well aside from the fact that Speaker Boehner is a poor choice to lead the Republican caucus in the House and that there are a lot less true conservatives, aka Tea Party Republicans, than we previously were lead to believe?

We know that the Democrats don’t want to cut a dime of future spending be it from current real spending or from future “baseline” spending increases.  The Democrats have rejected plans that cut everything from as trivial as $900 billion over ten years to the even more trivial $400 billion over ten years and all points in between.  We are talking between $40 billion and $90 billion a year 0r 2.4 to 5.3% of spending each year.  These are pathetically small numbers and point towards the pathetic nature of both the Republican’s plans and the Democrats in general.

We know that the Democrats do not want to limit spending to what government brings in as they have rejected calls for a balanced budget amendment time and again.  Even I am not sold on the BBA as a solution to our problems because so much of its success would depend on whether or not it was worded corrected.  But at least it was a step in the right direction.

What we know is that Democrats simply do not want to live in Realville.  They want to keep living in Liberal La La Land where money is printed as fast as they write bills to spend it.

And we know that many Republicans are in the same state of mind.

We know that President Obama is in over his head because he has no experience that enables him to see the actual problem and real solutions to it.  His mother and his mentors failed to teach him anything in his life to prepare him for living in Realville.

Time to cut spending now.  Otherwise, as Clubber Lang once astutely prognosticated, the prediction for the outcome is nothing other than, “Pain.”

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J.J. Jackson is a libertarian conservative author from Pittsburgh, PA who has been writing and promoting individual liberty since 1993 and is President of Land of the Free Studios, Inc. He is the Pittsburgh Conservative Examiner for Examiner.com. He is also the owner of The Right Things - Conservative T-shirts & Gifts. His weekly commentary along with exclusives not available anywhere else can be found at LibertyReborn.com (Digital Fingerprint: libertyreborn123456789)


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