Budget deal leaves liberals disheartened

Politico ^ | April 9, 2011 | By ABBY PHILLIP

[Chode]

and the RATS, take another one in the.........HA ha!!!

[Marine_Uncle]

I have a strong feeling Krugman in his undergrad years spent to damn much time in his room with packets of LSD, and somehow never got away from that practice.

[Yardstick]

Yeah, this is like getting the tip of the wedge in the crack, which you have to do before you can start hammering away. I least I hope that’s what this is. They’re having a battle royale at National Review over whether this was a win or a loss.

[reformedliberal]

Well, maybe it was a warm-up.

The conversation has changed. zerO is out there saying _he_ wanted _larger cuts_. The Administration says the economy is stronger and stimulus can be withdrawn. If they want to keep calling it stronger, then, eventually, cuts can happen, or else they have to admit they are lying.

Spending cuts are polling well. I expect a bi-partisan bill that cuts spending. Cutting special interests, let alone Departments, has to wait until there is a conservative majority in control of more than one-half of one-third of the government.

[latina4dubya]

“The problem though is that there’s a time to cut the budget, which is when the economy is doing really well,” Greenwald said in an interview Saturday afternoon. “The difference between the Republicans and Democrats is that [Democrats believe] during economically difficult times you need government spending.

what a stupid philosophy... that's like saying when my husband loses his job, we spend more because times are difficult... when times are really good for us financially, we make cuts in our spending... does he hear himself?