Boehner’s unreality check on the deficit

By Ruth Marcus, Published: May 10

The news out of House Speaker John Boehner’s speech to the New York Economic Club was his demand for “cuts of trillions, not just billions” before the debt ceiling can be raised. Not just broad deficit-reduction targets, the Ohio Republican insisted, but “actual cuts and program reforms.”

That’s alarming enough. It is all but impossible to get this done in the available time. It certainly can’t be accomplished on Boehner’s unbending, no-new-taxes terms. And if the speaker truly believes that it would be “more irresponsible” to raise the debt ceiling without instituting deficit-reduction measures than not to raise it at all, we’re in a heap of trouble.

Even more alarming, because it has consequences beyond the debt-ceiling debate, is the incoherent, impervious-to-facts economic philosophy undergirding Boehner’s remarks.

Reporters naturally tend to ignore this boilerplate. Journalistically, that makes sense. Boehner’s economic comments were nothing particularly new. Indeed, they reflect what has become the mainstream thinking of the Republican Party. But that’s exactly the point. We become so inured to hearing this thinking that we neglect to point out how wrong it is.

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He's got a road map and stuff. It's the only plan out there that could possibly work. We're all doooooomed otherwise. Quit analyzing it, borrow a trillion from the Chinese, hand it over to the overrich, and let's get the economy working again. Oh, and cut all those "entitlements" that those greedy lowlifes on social security and food stamps are sucking up. We have to be able to maintain full funding of tax breaks for big oil companies.