Posted on 04/09/2011 6:52:12 AM PDT by KeyLargo
What Did the Republicans Get With the Budget Agreement?
Created 2011-04-09 00:49
Summary:
A compromise was reached on the 2011 Budget on Friday night. What did the Republicans gain and what did they lose in compromising with the Democrats?
Compromise in itself is a very major problem with Republicans. The Republicans have been compromising with the Left for decades, transforming the United States into a nation that has become progressively more Liberal and has accumulated a national debt greater than $14 trillion.
Compromise in itself is a very major problem with Republicans. The Republicans have been compromising with the Left for decades, transforming the United States into a nation that has become progressively more Liberal and has accumulated a national debt greater than $14 trillion.
Speaker of the House John Boehner settled for less than $40 billion in spending cuts from President Obama’s 2011 budget. This is a lot of money, but less than the $61 billion in cuts that the voters had expected and demanded. The $1.65 trillion Obama is adding to our national debt this year is enormous and only slightly dented by the spending cuts. The current Republicans tell us the budget will not be balanced for quite some time.
Most of the Republican members of the House and the Senate who were first elected in 2010 were elected with the understanding that the Federal Budget would be cut significantly, ObamaCare would be fully defunded, and no more money would go to Planned Parenthood and NPR. Many Conservative voters will think that too much was given up by Speaker Boehner in reaching a compromise. Boehner’s great challenge will be to hold onto these voters and to regain their confidence for the 2012 elections.
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GOP loses either way.
Big cuts: Republicans blamed for everyones woes. Dems win.
No cuts: Republicans blamed by every Republican. Dems win.
Mediocre cuts: Republicans blamed for not enough cuts and everyones woes. Dems win.
Because Dems would not set a budget when they should have. How clever.
Oh, for the good old days when we had the House, the Senate, and the Presidency and we were cutting spending left and right. We were unstoppable in those heady days... /s
NO MORE RINOS!
A comment on Boehner’s Facebook:
From Kimberly Searcy
“As a supporter of President Obama and a true American I have nothing but the highest respect for you for your wise decision. Thank you for your courage.”
conservatives are GLAD they did not pass a budget. This gave us a chance to cut.
KABUKI THEATRE
Obama takes credit for ‘biggest annual spending cut in history’...
Drudge
It's not the democRATs who are the only problem. It's RINO pussies too numerous to name who cave and kiss ass. (Even when we hold a majority)
THEY gotta go! Losers, the GOP are led by spineless losers!
So is a losing the Senate races in Delaware, Nevada, and, effectively, in Alaska. My point is that so long as we conservatives focuse blame on elected representatives for doing what they perceive to be the in their own electoral interest and thereby excusing ourselves of fault for failure to support them, we will find ourselves in this trap that we were in last night. The problem is not in the stars, Horatio, but in ourselves.
Liberals have been winning the war from the ground up since I was indignant about the firing of McArthur. They have taken over the churches, schools, universities, the newspapers, public radio, television, virtually all of our eleemosynary institutions, federal and state bureaucracies, unions, and generally everything politically correct.
We then send the few elected representatives we can cobble together from ever shrinking electoral and demographic landscape to Washington and expect them to do at the top of the pyramid what we ourselves are unwilling to do at the base. When they falter in the face of overwhelming odds from every quarter, we blame everybody, especially these politicians, but ourselves.
Now this is generally the point in the argument in which it is asserted that if only the conservatives would be conservative they would win all the elections. We have seen in the above noted Senate races that that ain't necessarily so. There are many secular forces arrayed against us and to be a pure conservative is almost to stand naked before one's enemies. But I do not carry the motto, "attack, repeat, attack" at the foot of my posts because I believe in passivity in the face of evil. I believe we are in a mortal conflict not just for the soul of the nation but for its very existence. This is a fight not just worth winning but it is a fight literally for survival. It must be won!
All this is by way of predicate to articulate a unique point of view on this thread: we did well to avoid shutting down the government this time because we were not ready, we had no plan, we had not brought the country along with us. It was the wrong battle fought for the wrong reasons at the wrong time. If we had won our victory would not have worked any significant good effect on a budget out of control with 2010 deficit at $1.65 trillion it was a feel-good gesture. The victory likely would have been pyrrhic.
Make no mistake, I want this damn government shutdown, I want the EPA financially starved and shutdown, I want Planned Parenthood bankrupted, put out of business, and it's bloody abattoirs shuttered and shunned as if they were as radioactive as Fukushima. I want to win. I do not want to stake all feel-good or face-saving gestures.
Above all, I do not want to give Barak Hussein Obama the opportunity to turn the tables on reality and accuse Republicans of torpedoing his plan of economic recovery just when it was starting to work. I do not want him to drag the Republicans down to his level. I want the electorate to see this reality: the economy is Barak Obama's economy; let the voters judge him on his economy. If we shut down the government, the media and Barak Obama will convince many of the unwashed that everything was coming together when the Republicans, who put us in this fix in the first place under George Bush, got power again and resorted to their old tricks.
It is the job of a politician who would be a statesman to lead the people in the style of Ronald Reagan. Alas, we do not have our side of this issue effectively articulated by our conservative leaders. We have our talk radio hosts who are our spokesman by default. We have Bachmann, Palin and Senate DeMent but the first two have been marginalized and, anyway, they are not enough. Marco Rubio is excellent but not in the presidential race and those in the presidential race have not caught the imagination of the people. Now comes Paul Ryan who might be a shining star who might, just might, become the statesman conservatives desperately need. A shutdown last night would have continued to pull the spotlight away from Paul Ryan and his plan.
Yes we must shut down the government but we must shut it down for a better reason than mere pique, it must be shut down in support of a plan that tells the people that here is the solution, here are your jobs, here is the future for your children, here is the light at the end of the tunnel. Shutting down the government to save 2% of 2010 deficit fails utterly to offer the people such a vision. It risks all for no advantage and threatens to exhaust our momentum for no better reason than to save face.
Let's get to work from top to bottom and articulate why a plan like Paul Ryan's is worth mortal combat-because it saves us all from mortal peril. Let us pick our fights as Machiavelli would have us do. Let us fight to win, let us fight to kill off the enemy, let us be sure of our tactics and strategy, let us rally the people to the colors.
Soon we will have a replay of last night's crisis in the struggle over the authorization of the debt. Will we be ready?
The 2012 budget fight has not even begun yet, but it will be a repeat (times 10) and the Republicans will get virtually nothing. Ryan's plan is effectively dead.
Best thing that could happen now is if the gov’t steps on the gas peddle to drive this country into complete bankruptcy ... a complete financial collapse which will take decades to get out of.
Maybe future generations will look back and make sure this never happens again.
“Republicans never fail to fail. “
And Republicans never fail to disappoint. Prepare for disappointment. When the GOP caves in and votes to raise the debt limit and they will their ace in the hole is gone and then the Dems will ride roughshod all over them.
All Tammy Faye had to do was call Dingy Harry up on the phone and tell him that if he even wanted a chance at getting the debt ceiling raised he better agree to the paltry $61 Billion in spending cuts. It would have all turned out differently.
Wait til the Dems carve little Paulie Ryan’s budget proposal up. He and Tammy Faye will be sobbing in the cloakroom.
Deal reached: President Barack Obama poses for photographers Friday in the Blue Room at the White House in Washington, D.C. He spoke regarding the budget and averted government shutdown after a deal was made between Republican and Democrat lawmakers
Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare and Unemployment consume every tax dollar the Federal government takes in.
Everything else the Feds do is done on borrowed money.
"For his part, republican Mark Kirk feels a last-minute settlement is likely . He says he wants to see the government continue operating.
Kirk says "extraneous policy measures" are not central to the debate over government spending. He says he doesn't support singling out Planned Parenthood for a 100 percent cut"
You are so right! We need to go back to the drawing board and get at the grass roots campaigns. Back to the basics on finding key new people to run. Oust the Rinos and the Dems both. Keep the good fight going. Never say die and all that stuff. Add your own cliches.
Amen to your comments.
Obama remarks on budget
Apr 9, 2011 8:02AM
"I want to think Speaker Boehner and Senator Reid for their leadership and their dedication during this process. A few months ago, I was able to sign a tax cut for American families because both parties worked through their differences and found common ground. Now the same cooperation will make possible the biggest annual spending cut in history, and it’s my sincere hope that we can continue to come together as we face the many difficult challenges that lie ahead, from creating jobs and growing our economy to educating our children and reducing our deficit. That’s what the American people expect us to do. That’s why they sent us here."
MSNBC Moment: Lawrence O’Donnell Tears Up During Emotional Live TV Defense of Planned Parenthood
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