Boehner's a Liar. Ditch the Plan.

Let me give you some small idea of how screwed up Washington math is, and how much it favors those who are in power over those of us who foot the bill with our blood and treasure: If we JUST CAPPED SPENDING-- spent the same amount next FY as we did this FY, the CBO would score that as a $9.5 trillion dollar cut. So before anyone can claim we're "cutting" anything, the number they are talking about has to exceed $9.5 trillion. The Boehner plan, with all its actuarial tomfoolery, claims to cut something in the neighborhood of $850 billion. And only $20 billion of that is this year. So John Boehner is saying to you that spending $20 billion less than Obama's opening offer is worth giving him a blank check for a trillion and more.