ChadPergram Chad Pergram
Source on the GOP call says no one on the conference call so far is opposed
1 hour ago
ChadPergram Chad Pergram
From a House GOPer: “GOP has surrendered on (eliminating) health care law...revenue and Medicaid is walled off in sequestration.”
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Unless and until Obamacare is repealed or defunded (or an ATTEMPT made, at least) I will summarily dismiss any GOP fundraising efforts.
Have you seen any information on just how much is cut next year? I heard Rep Chaffetz say on TV that the cuts next year are 4B?
Next year is all that matters. Anything past that can and will be changed.
So, basically, Boehner and McConnell land the rest of the GOP just handed Obama 2400B in exchange for Obama handing them 4B back and promising them a meaningless vote on a BBA. In fact, a vote that will help dems. Some of these red state dems like Nelson, McCaskill, Tester will now vote yes to pretend like they care knowing the whole time it won’t get the 67 needed. According to my math Obama 2400-4 is 2396. So Obama comes out $2,396,000,000,000 ahead of where he was this morning. Not too shabby for a day’s work. The GOP got cuts that = less than 1/4 of 1% of the total new spending they just authorized. Way to go, guys. It’s like if someone offered to give you $100 in exchange for a nickel. Obama ends up getting more than 99% of what he wanted.
And that’s just what we know now. Just wait until a couple weeks from now when we find out the real truth like we did back in April over the CR deal and how Boehner’s unprecedented 38B in cuts ended up being 350M in cuts. When all is said and done we’ll be lucky to get 1B in cuts next year.
This was just frustrating. Not one time in anyone in GOP leadershp stand up and call Obama and the dems out on their lies about the Aug 2 date and the default. Not once did anyone say “there won’t be a default, they’re all lying to you, and they know it”. Not once did anyone really explain the whole baseline budgeting deal and how now actual spending is being cut, we’re just increasing spending by a slightly lesser amount. Not once did anyone say “time is up, we’re out of money, the spending stops now”.
Not once did anyone take a stand and demand an end to it.
To get up and say as PM Thatcher once did:
“if spending money like water was the answer to our country’s problems, we would have no problems now. If ever a nation has spent, spent, spent and spent again, ours has. Today that dream is over. All of that money has got us nowhere but it still has to come from somewhere. Those who urge us to relax the squeeze, to spend yet more money indiscriminately in the belief that it will help the unemployed and the small businessman, are not being kind or compassionate or caring. They are not the friends of the unemployed or the small business. They are asking us to do again the very thing that caused the problems in the first place. We have made this point repeatedly.”
Just a huge missed opportunity.