The reason the Speaker is late is he has to explain to some air-heads that that is the case.
Anyone else hear about the bill including free (tax-paid) birth control for the asking and again cutting Medicare payments to doctors? A partner in my doctor’s practice just announced he will not take any new Medicare patients.
If the deal is based on a baseline that assumes the expiration of the Bush cuts, then Mr. Boehner’s claimed deficit reduction is hugely exaggerated (and not for the first time) because a lot of the deficit reduction is provided by the expected increase in revenues due to the expiration of the Bush tax cuts. That is my understanding — if anyone has a different understanding, please post it, because right now this deal looks like a dog to me.