Posted on 04/13/2011 6:10:43 AM PDT by Kaslin
If this was a triumph, I’ll eat my hat.
Comedy Central
War is Peace.
Freedom is Slavery.
Spending is Thrift.
We’re all being played for fools, and personally I’m sick and tired of it.
Political theater and shell gaming from the political class - who’d have thought.
The left continually minimizes the Tea Party, works overtime to paint it as a small bunch of ignorant, toothless rabble-rousers. The right is slow to defend (as usual.
Have we seen pols mocking clearly dangerous groups? Not so much.
Hmmmmm.
See tag line.
It actually decreases domestic discretionary spending this year by 4%.
EVERY DIME SPENT BY CONGRESS IS AT THEIR DISCRETION!
Some “victory”.
On every serious proposal pubbies caved. No answer to the planned parenthood demagogery. So dems win removal of spending cuts.
No stones to defund Zero care so it stays and as NPR crowed today, it has money to take care of other minor cuts.
Much of the cuts were from pots that were slated to be eliminated any way like czar positions that were not filled.
Oh yeah...we should cheer alright...with a Bronx cheer.
Elections have consequences only if you actually use your mandate....I HOPE they will stand and fight in the next rounds.
And message to Ryan: cut more corporate welfare in your proposal...you’ll go a lot farther if your resolution is not perceived as weighted against the poo-er.
The consensus seems to be that Republicans got the better of the deal.
Oh c’mon, Boehner got rolled like a barrel.
Boot Boner! . . . Boot Boner! . . . Boot Boner!
Call your representative!
Boot Boner! . . . Boot Boner! . . . Boot Boner! . . .
You can dress a sow in a ball gown, tie bows on it, call a presser to describe it as anything you want and all you’ve got at the end is an overdressed pig.
All I’ve got right now is more disgust and disappointment in “my” government than I’ve felt in my lifetime.....INCLUDING the absolute worst days of ‘Nam.
Don’t tell us you’re going to stop the massive flooding in the basement by bailing with a thimble and pretending there isn’t a broken water main.
When in the heat of battle you find your army in full retreat, there are 2 things you must do to stop the tide...first, you must stand fast and hold the line...then and only then can you muster your forces for a counter attack....this budget holds the line, does not really decrease spending, but does not increase it either...the counterattack begins now...start the judging from this moment forward...
We're learning that this is not true. It is a fraud.
I've been criticized for being hard on Boehner, but I supported him strongly during last weekend's negotiations when he needed it.
Now it turns out we were supporting a lie and a scam against our own interests. That is a big step too far. I'm pi$$ed.
Mark Levin stated that the actual number is much smaller as some items “cut” were never allowed to or were not going to be funded in the first place. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice...
I’m not happy with the cuts. I wanted to see PP, NPR, and the EPA cut off. I wanted a triple-digit $BB reduction.
That said, I haven’t read much discussion on these threads regarding the consequences the GOP would have suffered if a shutdown had occured.
The author points to the last shutdown and its side effects. Would a shutdown have helped Zero with his re-election plans?
We didn’t win both houses of the legislature in 2010. Zero’s still got the pen, and we don’t have a voice in the MSM. I hate compromise, but we can’t be shooting ourselves in the foot, either.
We need to act strategically here.
Yes, it’s more like $18B last time I checked.
Even the AP admits this was a scam.
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