Are they trying to be ridiculous?
Congressional Republicans rolled out a new line of talking points today, declaring that President Obama’s proposed $3.6 trillion budget spends too much, taxes too much and borrows too much.
The House Republican leader, Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, was first to utter those words, during a conversation with a small group of reporters at his office in the Capitol.
“On the budget, it’s really clear,” Mr. Boehner said. “It spends too much. It taxes too much. And it borrows too much.”
Mr. Boehner added: “It’s a continuing theme that I think you’ll hear from us in the days and weeks and probably months to come.”
Actually, in just a few moments, on the other side of the Capitol, at a news conference with Senate Republicans.
“Senate Republicans find the budget has three fatal flaws,” the Republican leader, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said. “No. 1, it spends too much. No. 2, it taxes too much. And No. 3, it borrows too much.”
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Senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, the senior Republican on the budget committee, stepped in just to make sure everyone had been paying attention. “Thank you, Mr. Leader,’ he said. “As you say, this budget spends too much, taxes too much and borrows too much.”
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