Mitch McConnell agrees with Chuck. I'd provide video but this my first post and I need at least 15 posts before I can post a url. Anyhow Mitch is quoted as saying "Our top political priority should be to deny Obama a second term."
Cutting spending in a recession or during the recovery of a recession is a terrible practice.
If Congress Just Cut Future Spending In The Debt Limit Bill, Then Why Are The Unfunded Liabilities Climbing?
See:
US Debt Clock
Social Security, Prescription Drug, Medicare & Total US Unfunded Liabilities are all still climbing rapidly. They are currently around $115 Trillion.
Social Security would be fine if it had been placed in a locked box and not spent by The Congress. It seems the RX drug act was one more effort to get money from hard working Americans, many who had retired, and redistriubte their incomes to the shareholders of and executives employed by Big Pharma.
Income taxe paid by working Americans - and those who are retired - fund fiascos like the invasion and occupation of Iraq and failures such as the war on drugs, the war on poverty and the war on terror.
The Republican Party is now under the command and control of radicals who hold this truth to be self evident: I got mine, screw eveyone else. Don't think for a minute Boehner's first priority is you, his focus is on keeping the Speaker's gavel; Cantor's goal is taking it from him.