[Silverfiddle]

We can beat the Rats with a war of a thousand cuts. Patience will get us where we need to go

Yes! Finally, somebody gets it. Unfortunately, shankbear, that's two of us out of millions.

Die-hard conservatives thought that if I couldn't get everything I asked for, I should jump off the cliff with the flag flying-go down in flames. No, if I can get 70 or 80 percent of what it is I'm trying to get ... I'll take that and then continue to try to get the rest in the future. -- Ronald Reagan

[Cicero]

All very well, but for the next two years, the only way the Republicans can get ANYTHING is to put it on a budget bill or some other bill that HAS TO BE PASSED.

Otherwise the Senate can just derail it, or Obama can veto it.

No way now to defund Planned Parenthood, because it will just be blocked or vetoed. So, evidently we fund abortions and perversion of kids in our schools for at least another year.

Since this was an absolutely bottom line issue for the conservative base, and since they traded it in for something like a one percent cut in the annual deficit, I don’t think that’s much of an accomplishment.

[Hieronymus]

Die-hard conservatives thought that if I couldn’t get €erything I asked for, I should jump off the cliff with the flag flying-go down in flames. No, if I can get 70 or 80 percent of what it is I’m trying to get ... I’ll take that and then continue to try to get the rest in the future. — Ronald Reagan

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If one percent is 70 or 80 percent of what they were aiming for, that means that they were angling for between 1.45 and 1.25 percent. Tiddlywinks.

[TexasCajun]

De-funding the already declared unconstitutional Obamahcare & the liberals’ holy grail call Planned Parenthood, is a victory I can live with.

[Hieronymus]

Die-hard conservatives thought that if I couldn’t get everything I asked for, I should jump off the cliff with the flag flying-go down in flames. No, if I can get 70 or 80 percent of what it is I’m trying to get ... I’ll take that and then continue to try to get the rest in the future. — Ronald Reagan

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As the dust has settled things have gotten worse: Not only was the goal insufficient, they settled for -17% of the pathetic goal. This is not 70 or 80%
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