I certainly agree with that, so long as you can also agree that “not a 100% genuine victory” does mean that it was at least SOME percentage of a genuine victory.
Just received the email message posted below from another deranged “let’s compromise to get stuff done” idiot. Demonstrates the idiocy we’re up against.
From my inbox:
“Why was the debate over the debt ceiling so rancorous? Why was consensus so hard to find? The answer lies in the election of 2010, in which the Tea Party movement emerged as the driving force behind the Republican Party. In that election, the winners were those candidates who were most dedicated to cutting federal spending and avoiding compromise with the President. Republican voters didn’t seek candidates who understood how to get a piece of legislation passed and enacted into law. Candidates who showed an ability to reach across the political divide and find consensus, were the losers. Winning candidates were those who declared themselves “sick of the ways of Washington, and promised to dig in their heels against everything they disagreed with. In previous election cycles, the public sought candidates who could “break the legislative gridlock” and “get things done.” Not in 2010. If you convinced voters that you would oppose everything Obama did, then you were assured a seat in congress. Such a strategy is quite clever, because you can still campaign on the premise that “Government doesn’t work,” and “Washington can’t get anything done,” even if you yourself are the reason that nothing gets done. Meanwhile, President Obama and the Democrats are tasked with the job of actually passing useful legislation. Unlike their Republican counterparts, Democrats are not rewarded for simply standing aside and bellowing, “What a Mess!” To be reelected, a Democrat must genuinely accomplish something.
So to be a successful Republican leader, all you have to do is declare that government is broken, and then, make darn sure it remains broken. And who gets the blame? Obama, whom the public elected as a wizard able to charm any opponent into submission, and if he fails at that, well, then, he’s considered a loser. And so, Republicans have one job: Keep up the negativity, until one of their own is elected president.”
Gridlock is far better than pouring gasoline on an out of control fire, which is exactly what this asinine “compromise” bill accomplished.
As long as YOU agree that the victory was not the bill itself, or even IN it, but the DIRECTION OF THE DEBATE STEERED AND DOMINATED BY THE TEA PARTY...which IS a step in the right direction. NOR is it a dead issue, because we will drive it until we get home.