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“I got a feeling the GOP isnt popular here tonight, they are complaining about it at DU too.”

Well, if that’s the case, then it really is a middle-of-road compromise, neither side really likes it ... where the dead skunks and yellow stripes are.

Boehner did a pretty good job overall getting what he got at the end, but he was dealing with snakes and liars and a media ll set to pump up the Dems and blame the GOP, so he had to get the best deal he could and save his powder for the bigger fights. GOP’s early mistake was coming in with $61 b from the get-go instead of the $100 b they needed to do (and promised), they needed a higher opening bid and
(2) they needed to get the Senate on the record.

As far as I can tell, we have one leader - Boehner.
Reid is a do-nothing spendaholic clown and Obama is the Pres—ent.
Once again, we see in the 2012 budget the House is moving first, and will have to bring Reid and Obama kicking and screaming towards some semblence of fiscal responsibility... it wont be easy.

Boehner did a pretty good job overall getting what he got at the end

I'll say it yet again. This budget is $231B larger than last year's. There was no cut. The only thing that got cut were the Dem's ambition to grow government even faster.

With "cuts" like this government spending will double in only 11 years.

RE :”Boehner did a pretty good job overall getting what he got at the end, but he was dealing with snakes and liars and a media ll set to pump up the Dems and blame the GOP, so he had to get the best deal he could and save his powder for the bigger fights. GOP’s early mistake was coming in with $61 b from the get-go instead of the $100 b they needed to do (and promised), they needed a higher opening bid and(2) they needed to get the Senate on the record.”

You sound reasonable.

Earlier this evening I was thinking that I would offer to give up the riders for the whole original $60B, not what Boehner got. But you could see that many house conservatives wanted to finally get this funding out of the way to move on to other battles. Funding the government, especially the military with endless short term continuing resolutions is extremely wasteful.

If Boehner ran into a suicide shutdown battle without knowing how to win like load-mouth Newt did, he would have been crushed and had to have caved like Newt did and give up everything. Many here were beating the drum for shutdown but never offered a real scenario of winning; just like some in 2005. At least Boehner doesnt boast and make idiotic statements that can be used to beat up Republicans like Newt did.

So I dont think much different than yesterday or last year. More battles ahead. Boehner is no hero type, he pushed TARP in 2008 and they shouldnt have kept him on in 2009. So I dont expect much.