Activists Give Boehner A Nod of Approval (Tea Partiers looking forward)

The Wall Street Journal ^ | April 9, 2011 | Jonathan Weisman and Jennifer Levitz

[dforest]

The biggest probem we have is not winning the Senate in 2010.

The Senate in Dem hands gives Obama a lot of cover.

If we would have won the Senate, Obama would have had to deal directly with republicans instead of being able to use Harry Reid and the Senate to stonewall the negotiations and act above the fray.

The blame would have been laid directly at Obama’s feet.

To turn all this around, we will have to win big, otherwise everything will be a replay of last week.

[ohioWfan]

Good post.

We've got lots of work to do, and I don't think too many of us are giving up (though the defeatism of some on FR would indicate that there are some who are).

This deal is obviously not what any of us wanted, but it is a step in the right direction. It forces discussions on the floor of the Senate that Harry Reid was desperately trying to avoid, and it allows us to fight another day for the Ryan budget.

We are still in a position of power as Tea Partiers, and great battles lie ahead.

We must NOT give up!

[Fantasywriter]

What, by this action, was done with the Federal budget:
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A family with income of $26,000 a year is spending $38,000. (Add eight zeroes to each of those figures and you have the federal budget.)
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The so-called “man of the house” tells his family, “We can’t go on like this. Our credit cards are near their limit, and soon we won’t even be able to pay the interest on them. We need to spend less, so let’s cut spending this year by $630 to $37,370”
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After a few days of conflict at home, he can’t bear the pressure. He goes back to his family and sheepishly tells them he will be satisfied if they cut spending by only $390, and that he will accept the family spending $37,610.
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Why should we have any confidence Republican leaders will have the courage to address the remaining $11,600 in my example (multiplied by 100 million in the federal budget) when they can’t hold out even a weekend over a lousy $240 that won’t even begin to address the problem?
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I’m thoroughly disgusted with not just them, but my supposedly conservative Congressman that voted them into positions of leadership. Why give majorities to Republicans when they allow Democrats to dictate the agenda and the results on any issue of consequence?

Brilliant, brilliant analysis. Thank you for making it so simple, even a caveman could understand it. :)

[Tzimisce]

38 billion in cuts = a savings of -160 billion dollars for the month of Feb (and only the month of Feb).

Good job RINOs. :D

[DNME]

Patience, grasshoppers ... patience.

Boehner is in the middle of a long, difficult fight with a body of incompetent blunderers. There are bigger fights ahead and this was just the opening skirmish. One good point is that the Speaker scored a few major concessions from the Dems that will come into play later. Remember, we still have the debt-limit fight coming up in about a month, and the new 2012 budget. The war rages on!

No, the Senate probably will NOT vote to repeal ObummerCare. But they will have to go on record as voting to keep it in place, and that will hurt them at election time. Patience, my FRiends.

One clever move by Boehner was letting the fired-up freshmen have a say in the negotiations. They’re the ones who want the most drastic cuts and now they’ll stay interested and involved. Another good move was letting the shutdown clock run down to the final hour, which took some backbone. Good!

Go right ahead and keep the heat on Boehner for failing to achieve the goals that were set. It doesn’t hurt to remind him, over and over, that we are flat BROKE and PISSED about it.

I would have preferred the full $100 billion in cuts, but I can live with this compromise. For now.

Let’s keep our powder dry see what happens in the next few weeks.

[lentulusgracchus]

Since when does the Wall Street Journal have an in with the Tea Party, which it dismissed as weirdo extremists for years. And who are these “much of the movement’s institutional leadership “?

Asking the right questions bump.

Since when does the non-institutional Tea Party have "institutional leadership"? What is that WSJ/RiNO codespeak for?

Beware the Judas horses of RiNOdom. People like the WSJ editors desperately want to bring the Tea Party people into camp, and sit them down next to the RiNO campfire. Have some smores, kids -- smore trimming, smore compromising, smore access capitalism, smore corruption, smore buddy-system party leadership that excludes you conservatives .....

[alstewartfan]

I was only joking. The deal SUCKS, like Souter!!

[lentulusgracchus]

’m not for death panels, but I’m tellin’ you — there is enormous craziness .....but also crafting health legislation that gets control of costs and gets control of patient expectations.

Go back to your lobbying firm's boss and tell him we gave you a "B" for effort and a "D" for candor.

Nice to hear from the Fortune 500 and the Business Roundtable now and again. It spices up FR.

I'm just wondering how you plan to break it to the American People that they need to brace up and accept their obligation to die for your quarterly operating results.

[lentulusgracchus]

I see you lean toward the “Are We There Yet” set. Unfortunate.

I see you lean toward the belittling-sincere-conservatives set. Doubly unfortunate, but I suppose inevitable given your self-selected screen name.

Ivy league? Or just generic RiNO topsider-wannabe?

[suzynrogers]

Thank you. I feel like I’m am the enemy with the rinos but they are are being driven from our party and they have no place to go. They are part of the old Rockefeller movement and they are really democrats.

[ohiogrammy]

Thanks so much for your valuable insight. My best friend just died from metasized breast cancer. She went through a year of hell with chemo, and then radiation when it hit her brain, and they just kept telling her to take more! She died two weeks ago leaving her husband $300,000 in debt and nothing she did ever helped her at all.
My parent’s 90 year old neighbor went through hell because he was convinced that if he had all of his teeth pulled and went through radiation he would get better. Guess what? After he went through hell he died!
I really am tired of what I am seeing, it is sick.

[paratrooper82]

You are right about that “ this was not a fight” at all!

[Sal]

He also advanced a runner in place to score. Making Harry Reid promise a vote on revoking Obamacare is huge as it will make very vulnerable Rats have to take a vote on it very close to the ‘12 election.

Some will be forced to vote for revocation to protect themselves and that will be very useful—especially if enough do so to force Hussein to veto a passed revocation bill.

The ones who vote against it become way more than vulnerable. This little deal could cinch the Senate for us. Could. But the inning has been kept going as you said.

[Sal]

I should have added that I am normally one of the firebreathers. If I could somehow be in charge, we’d have less than half as many “Departments” with cabinet level status. Most things would be cut to the bare bone and all that would be left are the very few things that the fedgov should be allowed to do.

I about freaked when I heard the measly amounts “we” were going for, but we live in a world where a couple generations have been dumbed down by the Teachers Unions and that limits what’s possible AT LEAST TO START WITH.

If we take the Senate we’ve got a lot better chance to succeed. The biggest enemy we have is the fellow traveler enemedia who will work over the weak minded populace and that enemy has not yet been fully defanged. Expanding our numbers (and electing BETTER people) in the House and taking the Senate are absolutely critical. I believe that we can take the WH too IF we get a real candidate...

I can’t tell how much I wish it could happen this week, all at once and have the American people cheering...

[KeyLargo]

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

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2702879/posts

[TCH]

I made no such statement, nor implied any such action. I am contending that we cannot sustain the expense of providing taxpayer funding of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security... It is a fiscal impossibility... Unless you believe that 55 BILLION in unfunded liabilities is possible to cover.