John Boehner shaking hands with Eric CantorJohn Boehner on 60 Minutes on December 12, 2010
What happened to all the campaign promises that House Speaker John Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor made in 2010 when they wrote out the "Pledge to America" that they were going to reduce wasteful government spending and big government? I recall House Speaker Boehner making comments that they were going to do the "people's business" following the GOP's takeover of the House of Representatives following the November 2010 election. Boehner said one of his first priorities was to cut government itself, such as reduce Congressional staffing, for starters. I heard all those empty promises being made once again. It's all a sham. They'll lie to you when they're campaigning but once the election's over, it's business as usual. As I've repeated numerous times, they want the issue but they have no intention to solve the problem. That holds true for the GOP in the 112th Congress regardless whether they classify themselves as establishment Republicans or Tea Party Republicans.
CNSNews.com has written a disturbing report about this year's House under the control of the GOP. It states that the national debt is up $1.59 trillion under the GOP House, which means the debt has increased more in less than one term than all of the 97 Congresses combined. What an indictment. I believe it too. What have the Republicans done to dismantle President Obama's socialist agenda in the House? Nothing. They haven't defunded Obamacare or reduce the size of the government bureaucracy. Instead, the government keeps on growing. The power to control spending originates in the House. The GOP in the House can strip funding from wasteful and unconstitutional spending. But they don't. Why? The Republicans are content with the growth of governnent. I believe if they were alarmed over the growth of federal spending, then they would do something about it. They can.
Click on the above link from CNSNews.com to read the latest story.
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