Posted on 04/09/2011 9:14:39 AM PDT by Al B.
With due respect, I think those who are praising the budget deal are deluding themselves. Under circumstances where we are trillions of dollars in debt, the GOP just caved on its promise to cut the relative pittance of $61 billion in spending because it’s just not worth fighting for more than the half-pittance of $40 billion Democrats claimed was their drop-dead number. “Drop dead” meant daring Republicans to shut the government down (which, as we know, doesn’t actually shut the government down). The Republicans blinked.
For me, this is no surprise — as I’ve said several times (see, e.g., here and here), I don’t think they’re serious. But I want to make a point about how strange this praise of Boehner & Co. is. A mere four months ago, the big controversy in conservative and Republican circles was whether the GOP had reneged on their vaunted pledge to cut $100B in spending in the current fiscal year because they had seemingly come down to $61B. As I noted at the time, there was no question that, if you looked at the fine print of the pledge, the commitment was $61B — but that if you looked at reality, both $61B and $100B were laughably unserious. No matter. Folks around here pooh-poohed my criticism and insisted that a $61B pledge was a sober first step, showing real fortitude about getting our fiscal house in order.
So now they’ve stopped short, significantly short, of that purportedly serious step, and the reaction is, “We won!” You’ve got to be kidding me.
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False. The Tea Party "starting figure" was $100 billion off Obama's 2011 proposal. The total CR cuts amount to $78.5 billion. Yes it's less than $100 billion but it's also *not* the $38 billion you claim. That $78.5 billion eliminated all the increases Obama asked for in the never-passed 2011 budget and added billions in real cuts.
Boehner got an agreement from Reid for a Senate vote on Planned Parenthood and ObamaCare.
I think you missed the point. Progress was made. Now is not the time to stab Boehner, Bachmann, DeMint or Ryan in the back. They'll only have as much spine as our support gives them in the debt ceiling and 2012 battles.
Give it a week or two. Tea Party is generally not proactive when it comes to setting up demonstrations/rallies. These things take a little time to do right, and there hasn't been any time yet.
Thank you.
And the $20 M for: It is all FR posted.
US to fund $20m remake of Sesame Street for Pakistan
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13015768
IT’S NO DEAL, IT’S A SELLOUT
http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/its-no-deal-its-a-sellout/
Listen to what Mark Levin had to say
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffG-0IZF4bY&feature=share
Sorry, but in my view Boehner caved. We are trillions in debt! Even if it is $78.5 billion as you claim; this doesn’t mean squat!
Boehner should’ve asked for $200 billion! As I said previously, we don’t have time to do things in tiny pieces. We need to make massive...and i mean massive cuts now!
Boehner and McConnell are pathetic excuses for leaders. You want to praise this, you go right ahead...but my guess is folks with your viewpoint are in the minority.
What if he hadn't gotten it? Which he wouldn't have...
What if Republicans "shut down the government" over what was perceived as an "unrealistic demand"? Which it would've been...
Then what?
As it is, chalk it up as a win -- a small win -- for the 'Pubbies. It's the largest spending cut ever approved by Congress. And Reid will have to do some things he doen't want to do.
And the dirty little secret is that Reid capitulated because he knew he wouldn't win a Senate vote.
Earlier in the day, Joe Lieberman said that -- in the absence of a budget agreement -- he and "a few more Democrats" would be voting for the House bill (one more week, one more $12 billion cut).
Reid's caucus is cracking.
It was a small victory -- a large victory wasn't in the cards -- and it has significant import for future negotiations on larger amounts and bigger issues (e.g., 2012 and forward).
The full book title is Invisible Resistance to Tyranny. His earlier book is Secret Freedom Fighter: How To Fight Tyranny Without Terrorizing The Innocent. Another book that’s supposed to be good is Enemies Foreign and Domestic by Matthew Bracken.
They are the best of what is left.
LLS
These people that push these things a pure evil.
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Rush today said this is all about the Republicans, Democrats and media elite going after the tea party by making Boehner look like a hero and doing anything possible to diminish the tea party.
We got nothing.
John Boehner Must Go
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