Pulling a Boehner!

Republican politicians and pundits are consistent.  They only lie on days that begin with a T, including: Tuesday, Thursday, Taturday, Tunday, Today and Tomorrow.  One of the most proficient liars in the the Republican stable of champions is Speaker of the House, John Boehner (R-OH).  In his defense, he has little choice, if he wants to keep his job, because Republican policies are indefensible.  Trying to discredit Obama’s deficit policy, Boehner told a whopper.  Color him a busted shade of orange.

You may recall, if you are the sort of person to recall such things, that John Boehner’s office recently issued a statement claiming an assortment of economists and other figures were really, really put out by the president’s deficit reduction proposals, because taxes are mean and scary and the deficit can only really be tackled by throwing our grandmothers out on the street, culling the sick, and reducing our interstate highway system to two-lane dirt roads complete with Oregon Trail style river crossings.

Political Correction took a look specifically at the "fiscal experts" cited by Boehner as saying the White House plan would do "more harm than good." It turns out that no, five of the six didn’t say anything of the sort. Boehner’s office, as usual, is lying. But what those fiscal experts did say is more interesting:

While five of the six "fiscal experts" cited by Boehner’s office didn’t actually say what Boehner’s staff claims they said, they have said that deficit reduction will require revenue increases, in direct contradiction of GOP dogma. And they’ve also done so in blunt language that leaves no doubt about the Republicans’ irresponsibility.

Former Government Accountability Office head David Walker, for example, has said: "Anybody that passed basic math would have known that you cannot end up dealing with our structural problems in our deficits without having more revenues."

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Agent Orange pulled a Boehner!  The only people who Republican deficit policy will help are the millionaires, billionaires and corporate criminals that are the only people Republicans represent.  They do NOT represent YOU!