Yesterday, the GOP was supposed to announce their "alternative budget" which is their own detailed plan, the minority party's counter-plan, for the economy.
Obama at his Tuesday news conference had criticized Republicans, saying "we haven't seen an alternative budget out of them."
"Here it is, Mr. President," Boehner said yesterday, aggressively flapping the glossy, 18-page brochure "The Republican Road to Recovery". Inside this brochure are no detail. Inside this brochure are no figures. A "budget" without numbers (Obama's budget outline is a detail-crammed 142 pages).
The purpose of yesterday's press conference was to see the details. That's what the GOP promised. To see figures. Numbers. Specifics. Reporters were assembled. Now, John Boehner tells us that specifics may be issued next week (Next week is when the actual budgets will be voted on by House and Senate, too late for an "alternative budget" to influence anything).
The glossy talking-points brochure "The Republican Road to Recovery" - that republicans handed out yesterday - is mostly a harangue against Democratic policies with vague restatements of republican principles.
On spending: the GOP would "cut overall nondefense spending by reforming or eliminating a host of wasteful programs deemed ineffective by various government entities." (my mind glazes over reading this. It would be nearly impossible to construct a blander, vaguer sentence)
On energy: the Republican plan would open the Arctic Coastal Plain to energy exploration, while making it easier to build new nuclear reactors.
http://www.gop.gov/solutions/budget/road-to-recovery-final
Obama at his Tuesday news conference had criticized Republicans, saying "we haven't seen an alternative budget out of them."
"Here it is, Mr. President," Boehner said yesterday, aggressively flapping the glossy, 18-page brochure "The Republican Road to Recovery". Inside this brochure are no detail. Inside this brochure are no figures. A "budget" without numbers (Obama's budget outline is a detail-crammed 142 pages).
The purpose of yesterday's press conference was to see the details. That's what the GOP promised. To see figures. Numbers. Specifics. Reporters were assembled. Now, John Boehner tells us that specifics may be issued next week (Next week is when the actual budgets will be voted on by House and Senate, too late for an "alternative budget" to influence anything).
The glossy talking-points brochure "The Republican Road to Recovery" - that republicans handed out yesterday - is mostly a harangue against Democratic policies with vague restatements of republican principles.
On spending: the GOP would "cut overall nondefense spending by reforming or eliminating a host of wasteful programs deemed ineffective by various government entities." (my mind glazes over reading this. It would be nearly impossible to construct a blander, vaguer sentence)
On energy: the Republican plan would open the Arctic Coastal Plain to energy exploration, while making it easier to build new nuclear reactors.
http://www.gop.gov/solutions/budget/road-to-recovery-final