“When you’re in a minority position, as we are on the Hill, you take the best deal you can get to minimize the damage to the country (unquestionably our first priority), and try to avoid being politically eviscerated, which is what would have happened to us if we didn’t compromise at this juncture.”
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OK, I’m going to try very hard and not insult you this time, but do you actually belive what you just posted? You’re telling me that the GOP voluntarily giving this nightmare of President 2.4 Trillion dollars upfront, with ONLY 1 Trillion cut over ten years was the best we could do?!?!
OK, so we didn’t default...big deal! We lost our credit rating thanks to the “best deal we could get!” The problem with spineless people like yourself, Boehner, McConnell, Ingram et al. is that you work on the basis of fear: “Oh no...we might get blamed!” Guess who was out in front of the cameras the very next day trashing the GOP? That’s right; President Obama, Schumer and other POS on the left. We owned this debate, we could’ve kept sending the Senate CCB abd the onus would’ve been on them to pass or reject it. We got more voted in the House on CCB than this POS that Behner shoved down the house member’s throats!
Sean Hannity was exactly right whe he said “The GOP [Leadership] is compromising with themselves.” The only thing that would’ve kept our credit rating from being dropped to AA+ would’ve been CCB. But based on fear, and taking the “best deal we could get” we’re not only going to be many more trillion dollars in debt, but we’ve also lost our AAA rating. This is in large part the fault of John Boehner and other pu$$ies who make their decisions on fear.
Sorry, but I have no respect for people like yourself who take these cowardly positions. It’s actually quite an embarrassing thing to behold.
You can keep making excuses for people like Boehner, McConnell and Ryan, and try to convince yourself that this was the “best deal we could get...”, but the fact is, because of this horrible deal with the Devil, we’ve lost our AAA rating.
We all have the same goal, but some of us believe that we can reach that goal more quickly by getting other folks on board, who might have gotten nervous if all the cuts were put in place at once, but can be persuaded to do them over time.
We didn't get into this mess overnight, and we won't get OUT of it overnight, either. By working WITH folks, rather than chastising and haranguing them, you'll be more likely to get a few of those Independents to vote for your fellow Tea Partier for Congress, next time, thus making real cuts much more likely.