The GOP Budget Divide: Don’t Know vs. Don’t Care  In this crazy
world of ours, who can say whether a published budget offer is
"real"? Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images  The Republican Party’s
public stance on the budget wars is that President Obama is to
blame for refusing to support cuts to retirement programs. Now,
it’s sort of a tricky stance to maintain because Obama has
publicly declared his willingness to cut spending on retirement
programs and even outlined his position. The interesting split
within the Republican Party is between those Republicans who
understand this fact but choose not to acknowledge it, those who
don’t understand it, and those who don’t really care.  In the
first category is John Boehner. If anybody is intimately
familiar with Obama’s negotiating position on the long-term
budget, it is the House Speaker who has spent hours and hours
locked in negotiations with Obama. Boehner appeared on Meet the
Press yesterday, where David Gregory admirably and quite
unusually confronted Boehner wit