What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?

House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV)
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I noticed there must be a problem this morning when I saw Speaker Boehner take to Twitter to defend his budget deal with President Obama after an article in the Post showed the actual cuts are quite, quite small. It was sort of sad: No, no, no, three Obama czars dethroned! Four death panels repurposed as bummer panels! Brian Beutler gives us the story on Boehner’s attempt to pick up the pieces.

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