1st Day: Boehner and GOP Back Off On Campaign Promises

Pledge to America - broken

Yesterday John Boehner and his Republican congressmen take over the House of Representatives and immediately began backtracking on their campaign promises.


During the campaign in a publicity stunt called "Pledge to America," John and his buddies told us:  "we can save $100 billion dollars a year. That’s $1 trillion over the next ten years.” They repeated this throughout the campaign.


Now that they are in power, they have a different story, "The actual cuts put forward could be 'substantially less' than $50 billion, a House Republican aide said, because the fiscal year will be halfway through by the time Republicans get a chance to affect spending."


House budget chief, Republican Paul Ryan, told NBC's 'Today' program a Republican campaign promise to cut $100 billion in spending this year had been 'compromised' by the momentum of spending already under way.


 "(Reuters) - "Republicans scaled back plans for deep cuts in government spending as they took power in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, diluting a key promise that helped them to victory in November's election."