Nope…*
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No substance over here, either.
Nope…no GOP budget numbers over here.
But there is a hefty helping of GOP finger-pointing, ducking of responsibility and disarray:
…now we learn that Reps. Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan objected to unveiling yesterday’s ‘blueprint,’ but were overruled by Reps. John Boehner and Mike Pence. But bigger than any internal disagreements or any criticism about a lack of details is the fact that yesterday’s GOP non-announcement moved the attention away from the Obama-vs.-congressional Democrat storyline to the GOP’s lack of a budget.
What’s more, now Rep. Ryan’s little group of GOP Budgeteers now has to produce something so stunningly awesome that the Boehner press conference becomes a mere whiff of a memory of a disaster.
And rumor has it that the Senate Republicans are either "laughing at their House GOP colleagues, furious at them, or both."
The folks at The Swamp have more. As Hilzoy says:
Maybe next week they’ll present their budget using interpretive dance or little animated jelly beans."
Oh please, please let that happen.
From the DNC:
*This ongoing laughfest saga brought to you by the fail that keeps on giving.
The GOP plan methodically takes the Democratic bill apart. On health care, it complains that “Democrats propose to finance nationalized health care,” and says a better solution would be allowing people to shop across state lines for insurance policies.
On spending, the Republican plan lists specific objections to Democrats’ plans, but proposes only that the GOP would “cut overall nondefense spending by reforming or eliminating a host of wasteful programs deemed ineffective by various government entities.”
Taxes would be lower, the Republicans promise, in a “simple and fair tax code” with a 10 percent tax rate for incomes up to $100,000 and 25 percent thereafter, as well as “a generous standard deduction and personal exemption.”
However, Republicans also would “allow any individual or family satisfied with their current tax structure” to pay those rates, though it would drop the two lowest brackets by 5 percent. Rates currently range from 10 percent to 35 percent.
On energy, the Republican plan would open the Arctic Coastal Plain to energy exploration, while making it easier to build new nuclear reactors.
And the party says it would help ease financial industry turmoil by discouraging bailouts and creating a climate of “certainty and economic growth.”