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Frank told NHPR he wanted the Republican leadership of the House to keep to the campaign promises they all made and eviscerate the federal budget. Of course that's a pretty easy vote for him, because just like the vote for the repeal of the healthcare law, there is no chance it will get by the Senate and the President. A man of great courage, our Frank.
There's a wonderful diary on Daily Kos about the Republican budget proposals and the disagreements about the depth of the cuts.
I particularly like the acronyms for the two sides of the argument:
The first are the Opportunist Republican Cynics (ORCs), and they are still the dominant faction. They are led by John Boehner, and they are basically the same people who drove America's economy into the ground under George W. Bush...The problem for ORCs is that they don't have anything else to offer because they last time they were allowed to drive policy decisions for the GOP, they ended up thoroughly discrediting the party.
And then:
The other faction are the Yelling Angry Teahadists (YATs)...They really believe the only way to save America is to eliminate the deficit and they believe the deficit can be balanced by immediately cutting spending by hundreds of billions of dollars...YATs are the only Republicans with any real enthusiasm, but that's mostly because their ideas haven't yet been discredited by the test of reality.
