Boehner, GOP pan Obama budget as 'spending the future'

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As expected, President Obama is getting bad reviews from Republicans with his $3.7 trillion budget request for fiscal year 2012.

House Speaker John Boehner says the president's new plan has too much spending, too many taxes and borrows too much money.

"The president's budget isn't winning the future, it's spending the future," Boehner said. playing off Obama's "win the future" phrase from his State of the Union Address.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., continuing the GOP's theme for the day, says, "The future will not be won by repeating the mistakes of the past and failing to live up to our responsibilities in the present."

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