Gearing Up To Avoid A Lame-Duck Congress

Jillian Bandes | September 08, 2010 8:23 AM

It could've been a run-of-the-mill Good Morning America interview... and then House Minority Leader John Boehner called for the reduction of spending to the 2008 budget levels and a two-year extension of the Bush tax cuts. It was a pretty bold move for someone just sitting around with George Stephanopoulos on a Wednesday morning, but illustrated the intensity with which Americans are concerned about fiscal austerity, and the intensity with which they are focusing on it in the November elections.