Why Republicans Can't Propose Spending Cuts

Why The GOP Can't Propose Spending Cuts
WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 27: House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) (L) and House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) (R) listen to Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) as they hold a brief news media availability after a Republican Conference meeting at the U.S. Capitol March 27, 2012 in Washington, DC. Saying that the Democratic-controlled Senate has 'done nothing' in three years, Boehner said the House Republicans will introduce a federal budget next week. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 27: House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) (L) and House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) (R) listen to Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) as they hold a brief news media availability after a Republican Conference meeting at the U.S. Capitol March 27, 2012 in Washington, DC. Saying that the Democratic-controlled Senate has 'done nothing' in three years, Boehner said the House Republicans will introduce a federal budget next week. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

"Where are the president's spending cuts?" asks John Boehner. With Republicans coming to grips with their inability to stop taxes on the rich from rising, the center of the debate has turned to the expenditure side. In the short run, the two parties have run into an absurd standoff, where Republicans demand that President Obama produce an offer of higher spending cuts, and Obama replies that Republicans should say what spending cuts they want, and Republicans insist that Obama should try to guess what kind of spending cuts they would like.

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