Lost in the Missouri budget shuffle: Roy Blunt's "embarassing" federal budget proposal
Yesterday, top Republican leaders in the US House released a document purported to outline the GOP's alternative to President Obama's budget. You can read the 19-page document here. It won't take you very long -- there are pictures and pretty fonts, but nothing resembling a budget.
Roy Blunt is one of only 10 Republicans who signed the proposal.
Here's one more the more brutal responses to the "budget plan" put forward by Blunt and his GOP colleagues, from NBC's sometimes intolerable, sometimes funny David Gregory:
Dude, where’s my budget? Let’s be honest: Yesterday’s House Republican budget rollout was a P.R. disaster for the GOP. “Here it is, Mr. President” was the title of the GOP Leader blog touting that they had answered Obama’s dare to produce a budget. The problem -- their budget rollout didn’t contain any hard budget numbers or deficit projections. They say those hard numbers will come out next week...
But 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. In fact, after yesterday, the White House and congressional Democrats can agree on one thing: The GOP -- at least until next week -- is the “Party of No.” What's more, it puts more pressure on Ryan to truly put out a comprehensive budget alternative; Also, this episode could end up creating a rift in the GOP over how to combat the Obama White House. After all, Senate Republicans wanted nothing to do with an alternative, and now Mitch McConnell, et al are either laughing at their House GOP colleagues, furious at them, or both.
Already, Cantor and Ryan House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) have been described as "embarrassed" by the document because it wasn't a "thoughtful and detailed alternative."
Will Roy Blunt jump ship? Or does he stand by the budget?


