John Boehner’s Selective Accounting

By David Kurtz

May 16, 2012 9:55 a.m.

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Speaker Boehner’s insistence that no increase in the debt limit is possible without corresponding dollar-for-dollar budget reductions does not apply to the House GOP’s own Ryan budget.

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