[socialism_stinX]

I don’t understand why so many FReepers are blaming this budget deal on Boehner. It’s not his fault, and there’s only so much the House Republicans can do about it, until the GOP retakes the senate and the White House. The huge deficit isn’t Boehner’s fault, it’s the results of all the dumbed-down, uninvolved, uninformed Americans who voted for Obama in 2008 and voted for democrats for the senate in 2008 and 2010. It’s the dolts who reelected people like Boxer and Reid who are the problem here.

If the House Republicans tried to hold out for more, the government would shut down and while fiscal conservatives would applaud that shut down, 70% of Americans would oppose the shut down and then of course, the news media would spin the whole thing as being caused by the “extreme draconian budget cuts” that Republicans demanded and the democrats refused to go along with, to save the children. The GOP would even up getting blamed for the shut down by most dumbed-down voters and the whole incident would hurt us in the 2012 elections. The problem is this folks: we didn’t win enough elections in 2006, 2008, and 2010. Rumsfeld screwed up the post-invasion tactics in Iraq. Bush let Rumsfeld run the war when he should have let the Joint Chiefs run it, then the resulting casualties played right into the MSM’s hands and they used it to thump the GOP in 2006. Bush also screwed up by making sub-prime mortgage standards too lax and not understanding the risk of mortgage defaults to the economy. Republicans have made mistakes and we’ve paid the price in election defeats. (Just for the record, I do believe Bush had the right philosophy and strategy on almost every issue, but his tactical implementation of strategy was seriously flawed on Iraq and the US economy.)

So now we have to counter-attack and win more elections, retake the senate and the White House. Then we can pass Ryan’s budget plan and Zero won’t be there to veto it. So will you all please stop blaming Boehner...at least he won his election to the House the last three times.

[screaminsunshine]

I have some nice Swampland for sale down near the Everglades. Interested?

[Defend Liberty]

I don’t understand why so many FReepers are blaming this budget deal on Boehner. It’s not his fault, and there’s only so much the House Republicans can do about it, until the GOP retakes the senate and the White House.

The OP(formerly the GOP) and the RATs are both to blame. They two factions of one big socialist Republicrat machine that has enabled Congress to expand their powers beyond the enumerated powers granted to Congress in Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution thereby creating a centralized, runaway, out of control government too costly to maintain.

The only way to reduce the federal deficit is by restoring the limited government principles our founding fathers instilled in the Constitution thereby forcing Congress back within the confines of Article 1 Section 8. any budget proposal absent of this requirement is nothing but smoke and mirrors by the OP and the RATs.

[paudio]

Thank you for saying cool, rational points in the midst of emotional rants.

[Carling]

Bush didn’t lessen restrictions on sub-prime mortgages. That goes back to the late ‘90s.