They didn't even try to achieve real spending cuts with the Boehner plan. In fact, there are *no* real spending cuts in Boenher's plan, just miniscule reductions in the rate of the already proposed spending increases.
Boenher's bill gives the Dems the debt ceiling increase they want. Why couldn't he at least have made the spending cuts real? And immediate? The country overwhelmingly supports spending cuts (I have yet to see a poll that contradicts this).
I would be very happy if they could just force the Dems to accept real spending cuts. But they already promised the banksters that they would raise the debt ceiling. Right now Obama owns this putrid economy, and he would love to blame the GOP for raising interest rates.
Sometimes the polls show the people want spending cuts until their oxen get gored.