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Posted on 04/08/2011 5:47:31 PM PDT by tobyhill
Are Republicans ready to declare victory in the shutdown showdown and move on?
For days, the assumption has been that Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio was dug into his hardened position on behalf of the conservatives in his House caucus and from socially conservative voices in the Republican Party.
But now — just hours before the first government shutdown in 15 years –some of the most vocal conservatives are urging Republicans to reach a deal before a shutdown occurs. That could give Mr. Boehner the political cover he needs to cut a deal with President Obama and the Democrats.
Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, the founder of the Tea Party caucus in the House and a likely 2012 presidential candidate, wrote on Friday afternoon in a Twitter message: “I am ready for a big fight that will change the arc of history. The current fight in Washington is not that fight.”
In an article on Redstate, Ms. Bachmann concluded that “the current battle has devolved to an agenda that is almost too limited to warrant the kind of fighting that we’re now seeing in Washington.”
Likewise, Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas and a possible presidential candidate, said Friday afternoon in an interview with Fox Business News that a shutdown would “hurt the Republicans, not the Democrats.”
Mr. Huckabee, who was a favorite of religious conservatives during his 2008 presidential campaign, said: “Nobody’s more pro-life than me. Nobody. But as much as I want to see Planned Parenthood defunded, as much as I want to see NPR lose their funding, the reality is the president and the Senate are never going to go along with that. So win the deal you can win and live to fight another day.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com ...
The conservatives are getting most of what they want. Now move on and let’s talk about the much bigger bill ahead.
They are very close to that annualized.
I’m not buying. You can’t cut “trillions” until you can cut billions.
Little women REALLY ARE dying in the womb with tax-payer funded abortins and that's a battle you don't want to fight?
Wow.
First, anyone who reads ANYTHING from the NY TIMES and IMMEDIATELY starts jumping on the “Bachmann is a RINO” and “Bachmann is caving” bandwagon is — and I’m being KIND — is DELUSIONAL. It’s the freaking NEW YORK TIMES! WAKE UP!
Second, that Conservatives may differ on STRATEGY does not mean we differ on PRINCIPLE. Michele has already said she’d vote AGAINST this bill no matter what. HOWEVER, if ALL that’s keeping the House and the Senate from funding the Government through the rest of the year is a few billion dollars — make the deal and move on to the BIG DEAL — the 2011 Fiscal Year budget! THERE is the “Hill on which to die!”
Third, I am inclined to agree that if the Republicans, if they do not stand NOW, will not stand later. I am also very aware that the Tea Party EXPECTS them to “stand like a Stonewall,” and not to retreat nor to surrender. Yet, with a Democrat Senate, it’s unrealistic to expect that ALL our goals CAN be achieved between NOW and 2012. That’s not being “pragmatic,” that’s not “compromising,” and that’s not “caving.” That’s just being REALISTIC.
Fourth, I certainly DO believe they SHOULD stand for more than $30-40 Billion. They SHOULD defund NPR. They SHOULD defund Planned Parenthood. They should have STARTED by calling for $150 Billion in cuts, and “settling” for $100 Billion, to include cutting Planned Parenthood AND NPR... Republicans are terrible negotiators. In any event, they will have to make some concessions — but they SHOULD stand — or alternatively they should send up funding measures piece by piece and make the Dems in the Senate kill every one. There’s MORE than one way to DO this!
Bottom line — STOP trying to kill off fellow Conservatives simply because they want to pursue a different strategy than you! That doesn’t make them your ENEMY. You just might appreciate their ingenuity and insight under different circumstances!
Not this conservative!
He had better stick to the plan.
This boils my arse. John A. Boehner is the Republican Speaker of the House yet I have to live in his district to get a email to him? Grrrrrr
If they can’t do this, they can’t do anything.
They ARE doing this. But it doesn't mean we get 100% of what we want; that won't be possible when we hold the reins of only 1/3 of the branches of Gov't.
It may sound pretty, but realistically how do you force Dems to vote for ALL that conservatives want?
If the Repubs can get these cuts in such an environment, more power to them.
NO WAY
Would every look at the source of this article and calm the hell down.
How many times has the NY Times the rest of the MSM pulled this crap before?
That’s not compromise, that’s caving. If they want PP so bad, the cuts should be at least $100 billion.
Why not 200 billion? Why not the entire stimulus and close down GM in the process?
Would everyone look at the source of this article and calm the hell down.
How many times has the NY Times the rest of the MSM pulled this crap before?
It’s always next year...next election... next time for them... they are always looking down the road to do their job and meanwhile the people are sinking fast in this pawn game.
Stupid stupid stupid.
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