Prominent Conservative Grassroots Group Slams Boehner’s Counteroffer
Source: TPM
EVAN MCMORRIS-SANTORO 8:14 PM EST, MONDAY DECEMBER 3, 2012
The tea party conservatives aren't feeling Speaker Boehner's fiscal cliff counteroffer.
Americans For Prosperity, the Koch-funded group responsible for funding numerous tea party protests and conservative grassroots efforts, attacked the spending cuts in Boehner's plan as "disappointingly small" in a statement Monday night.
"Sadly this plan leaves Conservatives wanting," AFP president Tim Phillips said. His full statement:
"The President's proposal and Speaker Boehner's counteroffer fail to seriously deal with the reality of the problems facing the nation. Conservatives are looking for a leader to fight against tax increases, to push back against wasteful government spending, and address the fiscal challenges in a bold way. Sadly this plan leaves Conservatives wanting."
AFP policy director James Valvo had similar words for Boehner's plan:
"Speaker Boehner's counteroffer today offers disappointingly small spending reductions. After immediately giving in to higher taxes following the election, the Speaker has now followed up by pulling the best parts of the House budget off the table. The only way to solve the nation's fiscal woes is to reform the runaway entitlement programs and government spending. It is disturbing that this proposal may give up the entire FY2013 spending reductions agreed to in the BCA.
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PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)they point out it is a "Koch-funded group".
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)PSPS
(13,599 posts)Cha
(297,275 posts)savebigbird
(417 posts)Cha
(297,275 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,627 posts)Completely disgusting.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)I'm for that!
The only "entitlement" programs I can see that are "runaway" are like:
Defense contractors
Big Oil subsidies
Big Agra subsidies
Big Pharma subsidies
Tax cuts for the very rich
and
Congress' salaries.
King_Klonopin
(1,306 posts)olddad56
(5,732 posts)Cha
(297,275 posts)why not just call it like it is.. The Koch Party?
NMDemDist2
(49,313 posts)seems counter-intuitive doesn't it?
Cha
(297,275 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,010 posts)He can't please either side. Time to down another magnum of Merlot.
moonlady0623
(193 posts)the only "Entitlements" that need to be cut are the ridiculous pay and benefits our Congress has given itself.
Calling Social Security an Entitlement makes me want to bitchslap some Republicans.
BumRushDaShow
(129,060 posts)..."reform the runaway entitlement programs and government military spending"
jaysunb
(11,856 posts)This is the first and not likely the last shot designed to "excuse" Boehner from the speakership....and I like it, because they will trot out an even more radical speaker to ensure their complete demise.
SDjack
(1,448 posts)TygrBright
(20,760 posts)Just curious...
skeptically,
Bright
jmowreader
(50,559 posts)AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)Switchgrass?
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)This is a good thing ... It presents an opportunity for boehner, and other goppers interested in even the appearance of wanting to govern, to tell the teaparty ... "Go away right F'ing, now!"
Yeah right!
jmowreader
(50,559 posts)Unfortunately, the plan isn't any good.
I think Boehner hit the trifecta: he is pushing a plan that neither the Professional Left (tm), the centrists or the teabaggers like.
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)Boom goes the parties.
BTW dipshits, it's democratic and democrats. Not you're juvenile crap of calling us democrat!
Call when you grow up and regroup.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)"The counter offer didn't suck enough!"