“they scorned compromise”?
“Tea Party members went on Fox News to complain that it only called for $2.4 trillion in cuts, instead of $4 trillion.”
Even with the $4 trillion there would have been NO cuts. And the debt would have continued to rise year after year. That’s even assuming that future congresses would honor this deal. Not likely.
To say that they Republicans or Tea Party Republicans did not want to compromise really means that did not capitulate even further.
The debt ceiling increase WAS the compromise....or at least was supposed to be the compromise. In exchange for reducing the 1.5 trillion dollar deficit we are running. That’s why they were voted in. The voters continue to be on our side....I hope we are able to maintain that because if this next election does not go well for conservatives, this ship is sunk.