John Boehner (Photo: mcclintock.house.gov)
The Hill reports this hilarity:
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has privately assured President Obama that House Republicans will not attack him if he makes a proposal to reform entitlement spending, according to sources familiar with the offer.
Moreover, Boehner has personally promised Obama that he will stand side by side with him to weather the strong political backlash expected from any proposal to cut entitlement costs.
Yes, this is the same John Boehner who has spent the better part of the last two years attacking President Obama for trying to kill grandma because health care reform will reduce health care spending by $500 billion through the imposition of death panels. In his words, health care reform could:
Start us down a treacherous path toward government-encouraged euthanasia if enacted into law.
So, the last time President Obama did something about entitlement costs, John Boehner essentially accused him of being a mass-murderer, even though the truth was all of the cost savings will come without benefit reductions. And now Boehner is promising that if President Obama would just take the lead on his plan to cut Social Security and Medicare that they will play nice? If he thinks that's going to work, he's even dumber than he looks.