Dean Heller To Vote No On Budget Deal And Boehner Needs To Go

Congressman Dean Heller is going to vote no on the sham of a budget deal when it comes for a vote. From the Las Vegas Sun: "When the House of Representatives votes Thursday to approve a budget deal to fund the government through the rest of fiscal 2011, one Nevadan won’t be on board. Rep. Dean Heller, who is running for the state’s Republican nomination for Senate in 2012, announced Tuesday he would be voting against the budget when it comes up for review. “If we are going to turn our economy around and create jobs, our nation must get its fiscal house in order. After reviewing the final funding agreement, it just does not achieve this goal,” Heller said in announcing his decision by press release. “The budget agreement only equates to 2 percent in cuts for this fiscal year. It is time for the administration and Congress to do more to place our country on a sustainable fiscal path.” http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/apr/12/rep-dean-heller-says-he-wont-support-budget-deal/ This is good news, especially if the GOP House can get enough no votes to reject this sham budget deal brokered by Reid, Obama and Boehner. From apnews: The historic $38 billion in budget cuts resulting from at-times hostile bargaining between Congress and the Obama White House were accomplished in large part by pruning money left over from previous years, using accounting sleight of hand and going after programs President Barack Obama had targeted anyway. Such moves permitted Obama to save favorite programs - Pell grants for poor college students, health research and "Race to the Top" aid for public schools, among others - from Republican knives, according to new details of the legislation released Tuesday morning. And big holes in foreign aid and Environmental Protection Agency accounts were patched in large part. Republicans also gave up politically treacherous cuts to the Agriculture Department's food inspection program. The details of the agreement reached late Friday night just ahead of a deadline for a partial government shutdown reveal a lot of one-time savings and cuts that officially "score" as cuts to pay for spending elsewhere, but often have little to no actual impact on the deficit. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110412/D9MI4KNG1.html Good for Heller and I hope he is able to convince several other congresscritters to vote no for this horrible bill. I don't blame Obama and Reid for this. They are only doing what their DNA tells them: tax, tax, tax, spend, spend and spend. They don't know any other thing in their life. However, Boehner threw the GOP under the road. Maybe he isn't that smart. Maybe Boehner thought he could pull the wool over the eyes of the rest of the GOP. But whatever it is, he did a horrible job in representing the GOP in the budget battle. He needs to be replaced as Speaker.