From NRO’s The Corner:
In other House Republican news, a leadership aide associates himself with the accuracy of this Roll Call story:
House Conservatives Persuade Leaders to Slash Spending Further
House Republican leaders have agreed to a key conservative demand that they make good on their campaign pledge to reduce fiscal 2011 spending to $100 billion less than President Barack Obama’s budget request, GOP aides said Wednesday.
According to a GOP leadership aide, Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and other leaders are working with Republican appropriators, the Republican Study Committee and other conservatives on a “unified” strategy to reduce spending beyond the $74 billion in cuts they had already planned. The cuts, which would only apply to non-defense discretionary spending, would come as part of a continuing resolution to fund the government between March and the end of the fiscal year...
There had been some hemming and hawing over the $100 billion pledge from the campaign, and I’m glad the House leadership has come ’round on this. Failure to carry out such a significant promise would have outraged the TEA Party and weakened the GOP heading in to 2012. Remember, we were elected as a rejection of the Democrats – our pledge was that we have learned our lesson and will now do what we said we would…and if we don’t, we’ll pay a high price. If we do, on the other hand, we’ll reap the reward.
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