What nonsense.
Boehner and the House Republicans scored a big victory tonight. Did we get everything we wanted? Of course not. Is there any chance in hell we were going to get everything we wanted? Of course not.
We control the House. That’s it. The Democrats control the Senate and the White House. We are NOT going to get everything we campaigned on because we don’t control the necessary machinery of government to get our wish list completed.
All this nonsense about Boehner being forced out or that we somehow lost is absolute hogwash.
We have now changed the terms of the debate. The country is no longer talking about whether to cut, now we talk only about how much. President Obama was forced to go on TV tonight and essentially embrace spending cuts - just months ago he was busy pushing spending increases.
This was a major Republican win tonight. Period.
“All this nonsense about Boehner being forced out or that we somehow lost is absolute hogwash.
We have now changed the terms of the debate. The country is no longer talking about whether to cut, now we talk only about how much. President Obama was forced to go on TV tonight and essentially embrace spending cuts - just months ago he was busy pushing spending increases.”
This is true.
We have President Obama now taking ‘credit’ for a budget that is the ‘largest cut in spending in history’ ... Obama drinking the Tea!!!
This is like Clinton in 1995 ‘the era of big government is over’ ... next 6 years the govt - under GOP budgets grew smaller than at any time in the previous 30 years (or the next 10 :-( ) ... so this day IS historic ...
This is not the end, but the beginning of the end of Big Government Obam-unism.
Elections matter. And this agreement has shifted the debate significantly.
Here, here!!!! I see the “Donner Party” Republicans are out in full force tonight. They don’t get 100% of what they want, immediately they are ready to eat their own. You did a masterful job in capturing the truth of the situation and not the half cocked opinions of many.
I wouldn’t call it a major victory, but it was more than I expected from Boehner. I give him a B.
As to the rest of your post, I agree that people should climb down off their high horses and get a reality check. When you only control 1/3 of the process, this wasn’t too bad at all as a pretty solid first start into the big battle, especially when the pubs’ usual M.O. is to fully cave, then snivel, then lick their wounds and go home and curl up in the fetal position. It appears that they tuned up their spines a bit, perhaps as a result of the strong rebuke they received over the lame duck fiasco.
*SIGH* We have so far to go to restore this country to a constitutional republic.
Have you ever stopped to think how blissful life could be without Marxists constantly on the prowl?
then why are Harry Reid and Obama smiling?
Yes, the establishment Republicans "won". Hopefully we can primary them all out next year.
((Tell them they won....Maybe they'll buy it))
(((Yeah, throw it out there, see if they fetch the bone)))
I agree this was a net positive but....
When you have fallen over a cliff it is a little hard to celebrate the gentle updraft that slows your acceleration.
If this deficit isn’t turned around soon it won’t matter who is Republican, who is Democrat, who is conservative, who is liberal.
We will all be serfs.
Boehner and the House Republicans scored a big victory tonight.
Signed, The Democrat party.
That's it! The Tea Party turned the debate from a question, "What should we buy next?" to a statement, "Stop spending and pay off the bills!"
Big victory? You can't be serious. We're running a $1.5 TRILLION annual budget deficit. This nation is accumulating debt at the rate of $6 million/minute. We added over $260 BILLION to the debt just in March alone. Gubmint spending went up 25% in the past two years and kicking the can down the road for another week is the "best deal we could get"? Where again is the "big victory"? The only "big victory" is the victory won for the status quo......
Thank you for bringing some sanity to this board. Everyone is so 100% or nothing. They don’t understand how this has to play out until we get control of the senate and the presidency. Then we can save the country. Now we have to save our movement....keep it moving forward and prepare to kick their asses in the next election and every election after that.
Spot on.
Well said.