If the Republicans were smart (big IF), then they would put the executive branch on notice that there would be no raise in the debt ceiling until the next fiscal year starts, so Obama will have to make ends meet with the funds he has until October 1.
“Don’t fall for this crap. This is nothing more than a save-face story for Obama. While I am not happy at all with the amount of cuts given, I do recognize a CYA piece for the benefit of the Imposter-in-Chief. Regardless of what Boehner did, Obama dropped the ball on this one through his inability to lead. And the point of this story is to make Obama look like some brilliant winner when in fact he wasn’t even involved in the process.”
—It’s going to be a lot less painful and shocking in the end to just admit the truth now, IMHO. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. The ultra-secrecy, broken promises, smearing Conservatives who question any of this, and so forth. I hope I’m wrong, but I think it’s going to get a lot worse before it gets any better with these people.
“Don’t fall for this crap. This is nothing more than a save-face story for Obama. While I am not happy at all with the amount of cuts given, I do recognize a CYA piece for the benefit of the Imposter-in-Chief.”
This is true... but it is also true that a classic way to balance budget is smoke and mirrors. We need real cuts not smoke and mirrors. if this is true, we gave up quite a bit in the ‘details’.
‘If the Republicans were smart (big IF), then they would put the executive branch on notice that there would be no raise in the debt ceiling until the next fiscal year starts, so Obama will have to make ends meet with the funds he has until October 1.”
We can do even better. No debt ceiling raise unless Obamacare is defunded and spending is capped, with locked-in spending caps for FY 2012.