[Al B.]

FYI as you catch up on last night.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Well, at least the Cherry Blossom Festival in the District of Corruption was able to go off without a hitch today. Hopefully, the trillions of Americans flooding to our National Parks and the Smithsonian this morning won’t encounter any significant hangups.

[Texas Eagle]

The only thing Boehner won is future assurance that GOP leadership can safely promise the moon but then settle for crums because their rah-rah corner will spin any paltry accomplishment, no matter how empty it shows the promise to have been, into a victory.

Game, set, match.

[Artcore]

Great point!

And there are some in FR that think these same “leaders” are going work hard and Push Ryan’s cuts? PAAHHLLEEAASSEE!

The GOP has once again snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.

[biggredd1]

Boehner WINS BIG!!!!!!!!....
http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/16268

[NWFLConservative]

This amounts to any of us bringing our own lunch to work one day out of the month instead of going to a fast food restaurant. It doesn’t mean spit. And Planned Pre-emptive Infanticide, NPR and other parasite’s doors are still open.

As usual, the f’n GOP caved.

[glennaro]

Looks like yet another example of "we let 'em slide this time, but just you wait -- we'll really get 'em next time."

[jeffc]

If the Repubs can keep this up by doing the same next year (keep cutting a little at a time), we’re in business. Hey, the sliced salami approach works for the Dems, why not us?

[fightinJAG]

But this wasn’t “the” budget. This was about what happens between now and, first of all, five days from now and then the rest of the fiscal year (i.e., until the end of September).

It was a $$78.5 Billion haircut from Obama’s budget request for THIS fiscal year (cleaning up the mess made by Rats not passing a budget last year). And we still have the debt ceiling issue coming up and Paul Ryan’s real budget for the future to go.

I don’t see it as a defeat.

[tumblindice]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eceUXYtdw8Q

You know how to whistle, don’t you, John? Just put your lips together. And blow.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

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.

And it's just discretionary spending anyway. How can we believe that Congress will ever touch the big financial obligations - the entitlement programs - when they're this worthless on relatively trivial spending?

[LibLieSlayer]

The republican party is dead to me... no matter what they do going forward. I will NEVER donate to the national party again... I have been donating directly to candidates and I will continue to do only that. I will NEVER vote for a dim... all dims are evil... and I may vote for a republican... but I will ONLY VOTE FOR A CONSERVATIVE... never again will I hold my nose... never.

LLS

[ctdonath2]

Agreeing to a $38B (or whatever it is depending on how you squint at it) “cut” isn’t a win, it isn’t a compromise; in light of the >$1500B deficit, it’s outright surrender with a vapid face-saving clause.

WE.
DON’T.
HAVE.
THE.
MONEY.

SHUT.
IT.
DOWN.

[upchuck]

I commented here the other day that Boehner had gone from no balls to maybe bb sized ones.

They are shrinking.

This “deal” doesn’t mean squat and makes me damned glad I’m old. I feel sorry for anyone below 40. I seriously doubt you have a clue as to the future. Maybe I won’t be around.

IMHO, there’s no one “of weight” in DC really interested in avoiding the coming catastrophe.

[Terry Mross]

The dems rammed healthcare down our throats. Why can’t we cram something down their throats. And I don’t want to hear about “1/2 of 1/3 of the government”. The GOP were as bad as the dems when the GOP had 3/3 of 3/3 of the government.

[RobRoy]

With this budget deal, we are like the family on financial brink that, after much consternation and bickering has finally decided to reduce their Netflix account to one movie at a time from three.

This is gonna leave a mark.
Crash course
http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse
Short version:
http://www.chrismartenson.com/page/crash-course-one-year-anniversary

One hour meltdown:
http://www.grandpappy.info/honehour.htm

The man is almost at the door.

[Defiant]

The Republican leadership is even more pathetic than I expected. I thought they would cave after a day or two of being beaten up when the government shut down. I didn't know they would actually treat a shutdown like a disaster that they caused and work to avoid it at all costs. That gave the Dems leverage that they didn't deserve to have. The House has the leverage, but refuses to use it. Obama loves government. There is no government unless you do what the House says. THAT is leverage.

Bunch of pansies. I hope the freshmen start to join forces to find someone with a pair to lead them.

[geologist]

The mammoth problem is the medias, they are on the side of the liberals and this is true for years, maybe always, and it does make a huge difference.

Republicans mostly remain well mannered, they do not distort, or call names, and get ugly, and we all know the democrats do all of these with impunity. God help us. While I do not believe all conservatives are moral or without corruption, I do see that they attempt to take the higher ground and act more like Christians are expected, supposed to act.

Of course it doesn't work or hasn't. We are not repentant and God is not pleased with what is. Light and darkness do not mix. Where there is light there is no darkness. Light can overcome darkness. Darkness can not overcome light.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

2 Chronicles 7:13-14 (New King James Version)

13 When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people,

14 if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”

[Lysandru]

So I understand all of the wailing about the unseriousness of the budget deal. But for those of you who want the whole loaf or nothing...what is your practical alternative?

The 1/2 of 1/3 of the government is directly relevant here. There is simply no realistic way that we are going to get what we really want. Heck, even the Ryan budgetary proposal for 2012 and beyond is not enough. Politics is the art of the possible. The Sheeple still don't grasp the sheer magnitude of our fiscal crisis. And if both sides appear intrasigent, we can lose our support from those damned "moderates"-- who are unfortunately necessary to a winning electoral coalition.

We need to look to Fabius Cuncator for inspiration here. Winning everything you want today is useless if we lose the long term war.

[cizinec]

That is absolute drivel. He know well how the budget process works. The Ryan Budget is the *only* budget being discussed for 2012. If we don’t get at least 5 trillion cut for the 2012 budget (yes, over the next ten years), then I will be angry.

No matter what came out of this stupid CR (and that’s all it was), everyone in Washington knows darn well the real fight will be over a real live 2012 budget. Boehner is letting Ryan go with his budget.

If we don’t get at least 5 trillion in cuts, 0bama and the dems will lose the Senate and probably the White House. They know it. There is already grass roots support *from liberals* supporting the Ryan budget.

If Boehner had decided to fight for $100b in cuts on a stupid CR at the cost of trillions in the 2012 budget, he would have been a fool.