Martin Doyle Cartoon: Boehner's Bomb

Tuesday, 5 March 2013, 3:20 pm
Opinion: Martin Doyle

Boehner's Bomb

By Martin Doyle
5 March 2013

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John Boehner's strategy has resulted in the proposed $85 billion spending cuts in the US. That is going to be like a bomb going off in that economy, and will reverberate across the whole world.
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Ref: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/285573-senate-rejects-last-minute-effort-to-stop-the-sequester

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