When the House votes Thursday on the so-called “Bipartisan Budget Act,” violating John Boehner’s 72-hour rule for consideration of legislation, dozens of GOP members will join hands with their Republican leaders and blindly jump off the fiscal cliff.
It’s a long way to fall. The bill does nothing to tackle entitlement reform, the source of nearly $100 trillion in unfunded liabilities. It makes a pathetic $23 billion cut in spending over 10 years, leaving the more than $17 trillion national debt ...