Despite $38 billion in federal budget cuts last night, Orange County Congressman John Campbell told Fox News on Saturday morning that the United States soon faces a financial doomsday.
“Really big changes are needed” to future federal government spending habits or, “We are going to collapse in two to five years,” predicted Campbell, who sought $100 billion in cuts to the present budget.
Such rhetoric might cause you to believe that the Irvine Republican is critical of the deal House Speaker John Boehner struck with President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats, but that's not the case.
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“I don't think John Boehner sold out at all,” Campbell said.
Given how much Democrats caved to GOP spending cut pressure, he does think that Boehner should have started negotiations with Obama by demanding much larger cuts.
“But we have to get what we can get,” Campbell said, noting that Republicans control only one branch of the government and can't impose their will.
Ironically, Campbell's record on federal spending is viewed as atrocious among some of his fellow Irvine Republicans, who were frustrated that the congressman voted for TARP, the auto industry bailout and the cash for clunkers program.
–R. Scott Moxley / OC Weekly
CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.
