Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Stephen Moore
reports on Boehner's take on his negotiations with the President:
The president's insistence that Washington doesn't have a spending
problem, Mr. Boehner says, is predicated on the belief that massive
federal deficits stem from what Mr. Obama called "a health-care
problem." Mr. Boehner says that after he recovered from his
astonishment—"They blame all of the fiscal woes on our health-care
system"—he replied: "Clearly we have a health-care problem, which is
about to get worse with ObamaCare. But, Mr. President, we have a very
serious spending problem." He repeated this message so often, he says,
that toward the end of the negotiations, the president became irritated
and said: "I'm getting tired of hearing you say that."
Below is a graph showing how Federal spending skyrocketed after Obama's "stimulus" bill in January 2009:
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