The point stands. This was not even the budget fight. That begins this fall. This was a debt ceiling increase that is typically a blank check with no spending cuts at all attached to it. This time cuts were attached to it, even if they weren't nearly enough.
The Ryan budget cuts around 6 trillion and the House passed it already. That is also the budget that reforms Medicare which was about as ballsy as it gets considering how many supposed conservatives, even here, don't want Medicare touched.
I'm sorry your just not going to get everything you want, or even most things you want, all at once (if at all) so long as Hussein is firmly planted in the White House and the Democrats control the Senate.
Yeah, we can, Republicans control the purse strings.
Problem is, they keep dancing with their "friends across the isle".
Pass common sense cuts and their is no reason to raise anything. America does not need this much government. The problem is still what it was; spending
Quit playing fucking politics with my life. Cut the god damn government and do it now.