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Republicans still reluctant to put forward their own budget plan - Salon.com
Republicans are ever-reluctant to pitch their own plan for averting the fiscal cliff, instead complaining that its time for the Democrats to get serious on entitlement reform.
In what Paul Krugman described Sunday as the GOPs Operation Rolling Tantrum, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, took to the Sunday shows to describe how he was flabbergasted at the White House budget proposal, which would include $1.6 trillion in tax increases on the wealthy over the next ten years, as well as additional stimulus spending. Were nowhere, period, Boehner said on Fox News Sunday. Were nowhere.
Democrats say theyre just waiting for a GOP proposal: We arent going to negotiate with us, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said last week.
The president is not going to negotiate with himself, said White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer, the New York Times reports. Hes laid out his position, and Republicans have to come to the table.