for house speaker john boehner recently. he was unhappy with our characterization of speaker boehner as bad at his job and also as having what i think we described as the opposite of a midas touch. mr. boehner's spokesman again was really nice about it. he approached it in a very constructive way but he wanted us to stop saying the republicans fell way short of their promise to cut a hundred billion dollars out of the budget this year. he wants us to stop saying that. the problem is they did fall short of that promise. house republicans proposed $61 billion worth of cuts. $61 billion is not $100 billion, which is what they promised. $61 billion is only $100 billion if you are rounding up to the nearest hundred billion dollars. i know he doesn't want us to say john boehner blew that giantly hyped campaign promise but in fact john boehner did blow that giantly hyped campaign promise. it is only in the world of super tortured pretzel logic annualizing when we didn't say we'd be annualizing math that he didn't say he blew that promise.