John Boehner on previous GOP debt deal: 'Blah blah blah'

From hell's heart, I giggle at thee. (Talking Points Memo) I continue to find it hilarious and/or depressing that anyone with punditing skills above that of the average graham cracker honestly thought, even for a moment, that the House Republicans would stick by the "trigger" deal they themselves negotiated last summer. What in recent history would have suggested that?

Now they're just openly mocking their own promise:

In a letter delivered last week, the White House warned congressional appropriators that the president will not sign legislation to fund the federal government if the bill or bills cut overall spending below the level the parties agreed to during last summer's fight over raising the national debt limit. [...]

At a his weekly press conference, I asked Boehner to respond to that letter.

'Blah blah blah blah blah, alright, so?' Boehner joked.

That's the official response?

'Yes.'

Ha ha ha! Screw you, everyone else in government! Sucks to be you!

There is no way in hell that a legislative "trigger" equally slashing defense and non-defense spending gets pulled'not the defense part, anyway. That was clear from the moment it was proposed. Now that we've gotten to the point where the chief negotiators of that deal are themselves just mocking anyone who even brings up deal, it'd be nice if the Democrats who negotiated with them treated this as a Freaking Learning Experience Already. As a bonus, heck'maybe all the pundits who dedicate their professional lives to tsk-tsking the lack of gentlemanly bipartisanship, cooperation, compromise, etc., etc., etc. might want to point out that one of the two parties is made up of happy little liars? Eh? Eh?

No, of course not. I think "compromise" means doing the whole thing all over again, but this time giving the Republicans more and demanding even less, because anything less would be partisan and gauche. We'll start getting the op-eds to that effect by the usual pundit brigades anytime now. Pretty damn sure that's how it works. If Obama holds them to their own deal, that would be mean, and playing politics, and John Boehner, for one, is laughing at the thought that he'd even try.