Posted on 04/08/2011 9:20:07 PM PDT by Brian_Baldwin
Congratulations House Speaker John Boehner, thank you and my respect for you has grown so much in this one night. You did the stand up job, you are the man and I am willing to say so and take the jibes from those who say it isn’t so. I say Thanks again, this is the first step, may be a small step but it was also a big step in mind set and in showing the power of the Republican leadership. When I say my respect for you has jumped in no small way, I really mean it for what it’s worth coming from just another Republican in the Middle Class. For some, they are going to say that someone blinked, that it wasn’t 60 billion, but those who know the score also know that this was a huge victory for Republicans, yes the Tea Party, and the first strike in the battle front that is yet to come and the win was ours. In regards to abortion, it’s already in the wording that tax payer money should not go to pay for that – as the battle moves forward the day of reckoning is coming for the abortionists who take our tax money as well, this is the first step in a bigger battle to come. God bless and continue the great job.
MSNBC http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/
and
WSJ http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/04/09/boehner-obama-remarks-on-budget-deal/
quote Boehner and Reid saying it’s a $78.5 billion cut.
If so that’s somewhat better.
I have my doubts that Reid has any intention to bring up a vote on ObamaCare. I remember how the Dems went back on promises when Bush Sr. agreed to a tax increase in exchange for spending caps. Bush got blamed for the tax increase, and the Dems spent like drunken Democrats.
We finally got cuts...and this was on what should have been a Dem budget.
We didn't get it all as some purists would want but as you said we got the upper hand in the first battle of a larger war.
Now onto a FULL budget process. Much more will be won there.
It’s not 78.4B..........Boehner is playing games with the numbers. It’s 78.4B from what Obama originally proposed last year for this fiscal year. It’s only a 38B cut from what was spent last year.
They were on record before they heard the public outrcy on health care, and the public is just beginning to cry out on PP. The dems will have to again state their case, and many know what the public thinks and may have to change their vote if they want to be re-elected.
You are assuming that these people are guided by principals, not polls.
Absolutely! Boehner was the "typical, Washington politician". He already forgot what the 2010 election was about.
But they won, they got the Republicans to flinch, as usual.
Well said.
Well stated. Although it was one small step for the Tea Party and one giant step for the Republicans. Many more steps to come in the future.
Making a deal with a corrupt, dishonest politician?
“Read my lips. No new taxes!”
George H.W. Bush
I think we all know what happened after that.
The GOP is like the Detroit Lions. They don’t win often and when they do it is because the opposition screwed up, not because of a superior game plan or execution.
But they won, they got the Republicans to flinch, as usual.
That’s nutz, we won. Why is it that too many Freepers always see the glass as half empty. Give me the Reagan optimism anytime. (I might add, Reagan had to compromise too). You will never get everything you want. You get the best deal you can negotiate, hopefully better than the party you are negotiating with. Boehner did this admirably. Geez, some Freepers are as big a downner as Glenn Beck’s shows lately.
You forgot the "sarc" tag. Any genuine tea partier in the House, which, pointedly, crybaby is not, will vote against this garbage and give Reid, and Boehner, the defeat they both so richly deserve.
They should have promised to cut 100 billion IF they took both houses. With the RATS still controlling the Senate, there was no way they could have gotten that much.
In the words of the guy on Fox....Boehner rolled them. The entire panel is sitting there in shock that he got as much as he did. That is why I think Boehner was putting out some false modesty. He knows he ate their lunch.
No abortion funding in DC...no new IRS enforcement for Obamacare...must vote on PP. He set the senate up with the troops.
Even the Washington post chick thinks Boehner manipulated the entire situation and rolled Reid.
If they can't shut it down over small spending cuts then how can they shut down whole government departments?
Again, well stated. Boehner had to negotiate with Obama and Reid -- it was 2 against 1. Obama caved quite a bit, in terms of the bill itself and in terms of the requirements he stated concerning the process. If Obama were to keep his word, the CR that keeps the gov't open through next week will not be signed by the Oval Office.
You realize that this budget is $231B larger than the previous one, right?
There is no $100B, $61B or $37B cut. The government just got a 6.5% raise.
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