let him toot his horn, even kill OBL only gave him a 4 month bump.
This is a win for our side if we get cuts and no tax increases.
Bimgo. Dumpster is going to explode.
“This is a win for our side if we get cuts and no tax increases”
Wasn’t reids plan originally to have spending cuts coming from the supposed draw down in the ME? Is this going to be a double hit for the military when spending isn’t down by Nov? Then the Republicans would take the hit for putting national security at risk for not passing a special funding/spending appropriation for national security. We’ve been had again if this is to be the case.
CUTS???? WHAT CUTS??? A non increase is most certainly NOT a cut!
I'm thinking a lot of you folks are delusional. There's nothing for us in this. $2.8 trillion? Figure it's actually 1.5 knowing their pencil whipping. And by the time CBO does their estimate, probably down to under a trillion. NOBODY here remembers the last deal? The $82 billion one that turned out to be $30 billion that had already been flagged for cutting? Well this is the same kind of deal.
If this ensures that there won't be another debt ceiling debate before the election, then Obama won. Period.
You guys are actually cheering because the military is going to get cut? You're nuts.
There's nothing good in this. It's all a pack of lies. They overspend by almost 2.5 trillion every YEAR that's $25 trillion over ten years and you guys are cheering 2.5 trillion that's probably not there and is guaranteed to disappear after the election.
Flame away.
My guess is the Left will be apoplectic about it.
Raising the debt limit is the coward's way out.
Doing so, it gives an excuse for Obama and the establishment Republicans in power to do two things, raise taxes and spend more.
The stalemate is getting spending under control. Not going in to default or raising the debt limit. Only Obama can take this country in to default and only big government types can see raising the debt limit as a solution to the problem.
Both sides are working this issue through the prism of re-election.
Neither side want to make the tough decision about targeted and specific spending cuts.
Plus a vote on the BBA. Yes it’ll fail but it puts everyone on the record and people will still be pissed come election time over it.
Considering the reps only hold 1/3rd of the government, this isn’t that bad of a deal. I do wish they would have held for a limit so Obama would have to go through this during mid-2012.
Let’s see the details but if this is true, Boehner and the TEA-party related reps did well.