Any conservative who thinks this deal was bad must have been climbing the walls in pain during the Bush era, when Republicans were doing the spending and passing the socialist programs. Like when Republican leader Tom DeLay said the Republican majority congress couldn’t cut spending because all the bad stuff had already been cut out of the budget. Or when Bush passed his Medicare drug bill and turned the nation’s schools over to the federal government with Ted Kennedy’s No Child Left Behind.
No kidding. This is what I don't get. People are wailing as if the Republican party was somehow more RINO than ever - and wanting to primary folks like Paul Ryan. Please name me a time the GOP was more conservative than it is now? At least since WW2, I bet you can't. In just a couple short years the Tea Party and movement conservatives have pushed this party further to the right than it has been anytime in generations.
It's one thing to hold our representatives feet to the fire, quite another to freak out and declare the end of the republic because tying spending cuts (however small) to a debt ceiling increase for the first time didn't achieve as much as we wanted.
Just in case you weren’t alive, conscious, or were posting on daily kos IN THOSE DAYS...
yes, we (FR) were against AL of those, very loudly.