Still just a vague slogan
Good catch last week by Pat Garofalo: House
Speaker John Boehner wants to cut government spending, but it's still difficult
to get him to name any programs that should be slashed. This was a theme during
the campaign and the lame duck session that followed; it remains true now that
he's taken over the House.
Here Boehner insists to Brian Williams that the defense budget
isn't sacred but then pivots to talking about how smart spending is better than
the wasteful kind. But first he declines to name any program that could simply
be axed--because he doesn't "have one off the top of [his] head":