Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner (he's the guy that was flapping that 18-page glossy brochure around last week, the republican alternative budget called "The Republican Road to Recovery", that contained no actual numbers) has been urging the president to work with House Republicans to impose a "spending freeze" until the end of this fiscal year.
Yes, that's right. We're in a recession, unemployment figures are expected to get worse for at least another 6 months, all economists say stimulus spending is needed, both for practical reasons (and psychologically it doesn't hurt either).
And Boehner is standing with republicans calling for a "spending freeze".
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On ABC's This Week, conservative columnist David Brooks called Boehner's spending freeze idea "insane":
BROOKS:
The problem with them and the problem with Limbaugh in terms of intellectual philosophy is they are stuck with Reagan. They are stuck with the idea that government is always the problem. A lot of Republicans up in Capitol Hill right now are calling for a spending freeze in a middle of a recession/depression.
That is insane. But they are thinking the way they thought in 1982, if we can only think that way again, that is just insane.
YouTube - GOP Spending Freeze Idea "Insane," Party Too Stuck On Reagan -David Brooks
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Thank you, conservative David Brooks! Nice to see all conservative aren't drinking the party Kool-Aid.