At the weekly Republican leadership press conference, House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) discussed President Obama’s $3.8-trillion budget proposal that spends too much, taxes too much, and borrows too much:
“The President and Democratic leaders think their political problems are that they haven’t focused their message accurately. Well, let me say to the President, and to Ms. Pelosi, and to Senator Reid: it’s not the message that the American people are concerned about, it’s what you are doing.
“You know, whether it’s cap-and-trade, the government takeover of health care that they’re still trying to find a way to pass, and now we’ve got this budget that – it’s real simple – it spends too much, it taxes too much, and it clearly borrows too much from our kids and grandkids. We need real budget caps and we need them now – real spending caps and now.
“But you know, the American people are still asking, ‘where are the jobs?’ And as long as they have their job-killing agenda out there and they continue to spend the money at the rate they are spending it, and borrowing at the rate, there will be no money out there for small businesses to borrow. It’s time that we find some bipartisan way to say no to all of this spending.”