The Republican goal was never to meaningfully cut the budget and reduce spending. It was to avoid a government shutdown at all costs. Why?
Riot insurance!!! EVERYTHING the RINOs do is f*cking riot insurance! A real cut in the budget would have affected welfare payouts like the earned income tax credit, or cuts to the SSDI welfare program which would have resulted in tens of thousands of drunks and druggies rioting in the streets because their supply of free federal dollars for life had suddenly been shut off. Just like the recent riots in Athens and London when those governments announced draconian budget cuts impacting the entitlements crowd.
This “coverup” and kowtowing to entitlement thugs and welfare crooks has been going on in America since the sixties. If we don’t take our medicine and end the riot insurance programs—even if it means insurrection in the streets having to be put down by federal troops—we will lose this nation. We are already being held hostage by foreign countries and their pernicious economic strategies. but we are also being strangled by our own domestic welfare mobs as well. It’s time to man up and rid the country of this terribly immoral fear we have of ever offending or inconveniencing those who are holding a knife to our throats.
“The Republican goal was never to meaningfully cut the budget and reduce spending. It was to avoid a government shutdown at all costs. Why?”
Wrong, the GOP goal was to make a downpayment on spending cuts and fiscal responsibility in FY2011. They did that.
Another goal was to defund Obamacare. They didnt do that. Other policy goals will have to be fought another day.
The GOP goal was never to shut down the Govt, but ‘avoiding’ it? Well the House passed HR1 in Feb, and passed a short term CR this week. The GOP managed to get some of their goals met and did it without a govt shutdown.
You are right, but the Republican primary voters cannot understand.