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Arithmetic For Republicans: Why Boehner’s “Offer” Just Doesn’t Add Up
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Dec 05, 2012 06:21am |
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| Category | Commentary |
| Author | Joe Conason |
| News Date | Wednesday, December 5, 2012 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | If President Obama honestly wants to negotiate an agreement with Republicans before the year-end fiscal deadline, he must be deeply frustrated. And if he doesn’t really want to negotiate with them, then he should be delighted, for the same reason: Their latest “offer” laid before him by House Speaker John Boehner demonstrates again their refusal to reveal their true intentions – and their inability to do simple arithmetic.
Consider their treatment of Medicare, the popular social insurance program for seniors that Republicans have always despised. They have just emerged from a long national campaign in which they repeatedly and falsely claimed to “protect” Medicare from the President — whom they accused of wanting to slash $716 billion from the program – but now they complain that he won’t cut it enough. The Obama cuts were mythical, but the Boehner budget proposal include at least $600 billion in Medicare and Medicaid reductions. |
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