The question now is what are the Republicans going to do about righting the ship. It seems to me the big fight starts now.
Inside the DC “bubble,” it’s a big win for Boehner. In the real world it’s a joke. One penny saved on the $1000 bill of spending — if you even consider a minute “reduction in an increase” meaningful.
Theyre selling independence,
Actors in the white house,
Acid in digestion,
Mortgage on my life,
Mortgage on my life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtURmn_knzA
The deal sucks.
Even when Morris is right he still makes my skin crawl. Toe sucker.
It’s a sad day when Morris is more conservative then the GOP leadership
Keep buying gold and silver. The dollar is toilet paper.
As in Punch and Judy!
He sure has the part down, doesn't he?
This deal isn’t important as important as Paul Ryan budget and the debt ceiling is. Actually, I’m surprised they held their ground for $38B.
If the Republicans were smart they would tie the Ryan budget to increasing the debt ceiling. If they pass the debt ceiling without the budget you might as well forget any hopes of getting the Ryan budget through.
1) Roll back congress’ budget to FY2000 levels.
2) End all retirement benefits for elected or appointed officials, including congress itself.
3) Especially end all retirement benefits for SPOUSES of congress. Why on earth they get benefits I've no clue at all.
Until CONGRESS takes serious the idea that they're spending someone else’s money and gets their own financial house in order, everything else is just play money to them. Shifting mountains of money for political effect, rather than treating it as money taken from us, sometimes even at gunpoint.
You don't retire from Congress, you get told someone else is going to take over the duties and you can go back to your life now.
It was a feeble effort, much more show than go. In the face of a multi trillion dollar problem he made his stand over what amounts to nothing more than a few days interest on the national debt. Not good
No one talks that much about a great deal, if it was so good, the American people would already know that, they would not need any probing from the lame old media!
Same basic question I asked my Tea Party friends. With this who thinks the repubs will have the guts to do the right thing on the debt ceiling and 2012 budget. I do not. I do see how they could do it but they are gutless so I fear without OD intervention all is lost.
This is just a continuing resolution funding the Govt temporally. This is not the annual budget. Right? There was no budget passed in 2010 for 2011 so CR’s for a few weeks at a time are the way the govt is being funded. The 2012 budget formed in 2011 will be the big fight.
NPR defunding
EPA riders
Planned Parenthood abortion mills defunding
Obamacare defunding
Did the Republicans win ANYTHING?
No. The cowards caved on everything. I am done with Boner and the rest of the em-effers.
Boehner and the OP(formerly the GOP) sold the Constitution as they have done for decades. This time they did not address the root cause of the problem. The root cause is due to Congress expanding their powers far beyond the enumerated powers granted to Congress in Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution. Violating Article 1 Section 8 has created not only an Unconstitutional government but one so large it has become cost prohibitive.
The only way to reduce federal spending is by eliminating all federal agencies not in compliance with any of the enumerated powers in Article 1 Section 8. Doing so will dramatically reduce the size of government along with the associated costs. Any budget proposal that does not address this issue is nothing more than smoke and mirrors!
Who is this “we” Dick Morris speaks of?
A complete sellout.
And a completely worthless “cut.”
How much did Bush spend to fight AIDS in Africa? Somewhere around this cut.
The country is facing the death of its currency and the GOP dickers over a few billion dollars.
They should be using incrementalism — favorite tactic of the Left — to hack away at our deficit spending and to pay down our debt.
They should be talking about hundreds of billions for this first round of cuts.
Then, once they win that, it should be another several hundred billion. On and on until we cut the hell out of not just federal spending, but the entire federal government as the Leviathan it has become.
So if Boehner had gotten the $61 billion in cuts instead of $38, so-the-hell-what?!
Freepers are crying because he got 1% instead of an ultra-conservative Tea Party approved 2%?
Despicable for ANY politician - but for the CIC?
Our soldiers are NOT ‘nonessential personnel’. How the HELL did he get away with that?
Another part of this equation: Yesterday, BEFORE it was known in there would a shut down, our soldiers got a notice regarding their next paycheck due: They were warned that they wouldn't get paid for the 9th-15th of April!
I can tell you that the looming probability of their pay checks stopping weighed heavy on them, especially the ones deployed. They were worried about their spouses and children back home: Mortgage, food, bills.
In addition, our soldiers would be required to show up for duty every day - while not getting paid.
HOW COULD A CIC DO THIS?
However, the REAL nonessential personnel, would NOT be expected to work - AND were to get unemployment!
Now, answer me this: This cut off of soldiers pay was already all set up - before it was even known if there’d be a shut down.
Name me one other time the gov’t has gotten ANYthing done on time? Even this budget fight was over a budget that was, by law, supposed to’ve been passed last year! (And they admit they didn't do it last year because of things that would come to light that would cost a lot of them reelection! So they were able to get away with ignoring the law on passing an annual budget without repercussions - and...
Well, I'm still to angry and disgusted to write all I'm thinking...
Except one more note: Chucky Shooomah likened the Tea Party to nothing but a flea on the tail of a dog - the tail being the Republican Party - and the dog being the gov’t - i.e., HIM and crew.
When are we going to educate these ‘enemies domestic’ that they are there as ‘representatives’ to carry out the will of WE THE PEOPLE - they are NOT there as RULERS.