[Hoot Gibson]

He proposed cuts to Social Security and Medicare, as republicans wanted, and backed them right into a corner. They are turning tail and running now. Social welfare is a very small percentage of spending.



I told my wife the day he proposed his budget that he was playing their game to get them on record on those cuts.

All Obama does while he is in Washington is play political games and party at the taxpayers' expense. Neither side has proposed any real cuts. A "cut" here is a cut in the growth rate of spending. Obama has not even be able to get the Senate to vote on one of his budget proposals and Boehner is a fool to take his proposals seriously. Until Obama can submit a real budget that Senate Democrats are willing to support, Boehner should be refusing to negotiate with the White House - but he and Obama are golfing buddies.