Fiscal sanity advocate Club for Growth has announced its “strong” opposition to the weak Boehner Plan, which would give Obama a $1 trillion debt increase immediately yet cut only $26 billion from the budget in 2012.

The Club for Growth strongly opposes the Boehner Debt Limit plan, otherwise known as the Budget Control Act of 2011 (it’s currently being offered as a substitute amendment to S. 627). We expect a vote on this proposal will take place on Wednesday, July 27, 2011. This vote will be included in the Club for Growth’s 2011 Congressional Scorecard.

From the start of this debt ceiling debate, the Club has advocated strongly for a plan that makes large, immediate spending cuts to the budget, a hard spending cap on all federal spending, and a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution that limits spending and requires a supermajority to approve tax increases. The Boehner Plan does not achieve these tenets. It cuts almost nothing immediately, it caps only discretionary spending, and it does not require passage of a balanced budget amendment.

Additionally, and perhaps more importantly, it simply doesn’t fix the country’s fiscal problems. We strongly oppose it and we urge a NO vote.

Good for them. Boehner’s plan makes lots of promises but actually requires almost none of them to be fulfilled. Instead of laws we get commissions that will recommend action. Less than useless. As for cuts, we’d only be guaranteed $26 billion out of a multi-trillion dollar budget.