Sadly, you are correct in this assertion. The first time I saw Boehner crying when taking the gavel from Pelosi, I could feel my heart sink.
I am not defending what they did - in my mind, they wasted perhaps the only opportunity they would have ever had to control the out of control deficit.
the way i recall it, boner made passage difficult because of the defense cuts and hands off approach to entitlements...thats why they had to go all *closed doors* and bribe/arm twist the 'R's to get the votes...
the blink you mention, also seemed to be the fact that the dems asked for/demanded the debt ceiling be raised, and boner tried to bluff with a shutdown instead of just signing off on the limit and being done, thus causing this whole fustercluck...
we all agree that defense is one of a very few things that the fed is supposed todo, and we live in a dangerous world too...BUT...theres a helluva lot of graft/waste and outright fraud and vote buying built into DOD that could be sorely used to better equip and prepare our warriors and their missions...
sadly, the House just keeps on allocating funds for everything else un Constitutional, while our troops are being used up...
Sadly, you are correct in this assertion. The first time I saw Boehner crying when taking the gavel from Pelosi, I could feel my heart sink.