But I thought you wanted to reduce spending, Mr. Boehner!

Maybe you haven't heard, but the majority party in the House of Representatives has already introduced a bill to repeal the Patient Protection and Access to Care Act (i.e., "Obamacare"). The very same week, the very same party changed House rules to require that any bill introduced to that legislative body must pay for every additional dollar of cost by cutting an existing dollar in the budget.
Except for the resolution to repeal PPACA. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office released a preliminary review of the bill (the CBO hasn't had time to do a full review yet), estimating that repeal of the health reform bill will add $230 billion to the federal budget deficit from 2012 to 2021 (cf. Robert Lowes, Medscape Medical News, Jan. 6, 2011).
Since the health care bill was projected by the CBO to reduce the deficit by $143 billion over 10 years, the true effect of repealing it approaches $370 billion.
So which is it, Speaker Boehner? Do you want to cut spending, or do you want to play politics with our health care? Because if you were serious about cutting spending, you would follow your own newly minted rule and dig up $230 billion on alternative budget cuts in order to repeal the health care reform bill.
Oh, wait a minute! This is politics. We don't have to be consistent, or rational, or for that matter truthful. Republicans are complaining that the "tax-and-spend" Democrats have run up the deficit to such heights that they are destroying our economy, not to mention the labor market. Then why do they introduce a bill entitled, "Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act (emphasis mine)" when, by the very act of repealing PPACA, the Republicans would increase the deficit even more, which by their own machinations would kill even more jobs?
Truth is the newly empowered Republicans are continuing to play cynical politics. It's an easy stand for them to take to assuage their Tea-Party upstarts, because the bill will never pass a Democratic-controlled Senate. And if by some miracle it did, President Obama would surely veto the bill.
I have a better suggestion. Keep PPACA, and begin to amend it brick by brick, introducing incremental improvements to what is in actuality NOT a wholesale restructuring of our health care system, but, in fact an incremental one. The truth is, ObamaCare is probably not drastic enough to save the sinking ship of American health care. But to repeal the only meaningful advance we have made in thirty years to fix the system is like drilling another hole in the bottom of a sinking ship.