[kabar]

Republicans don’t want this protracted fight right now....too many other more important issues,.....

That is always the GOP's excuse when it comes to fighting the Dems. They saidrthe same thing after they the 2010 midterms when they had all of the momentum. They failed to achieve not one cent in spending cuts and passed the largest increase in the debt ceiling in history. Instead, spending continues to increase and the absolute best outcome we can expect from the "Grand Bargain" is a reduction of $4 trillion in deficit spending meaning that we will still add $6 trillion to the national debt during that period.

I don't hold out much hope of any spending cuts. It will be more smoke and mirrors using accounting gimmicks and putting off any real spending cuts until many years out leaving it to future Congresses. Both parties want the spending binge to continue, which will be an inevitable disaster.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

CNN...the libs referring to “needless spending cuts” HUH???

[PaleoBob]

That is always the GOP’s excuse when it comes to fighting the Dems. They saidrthe same thing after they the 2010 midterms when they had all of the momentum. They failed to achieve not one cent in spending cuts and passed the largest increase in the debt ceiling in history. Instead, spending continues to increase and the absolute best outcome we can expect from the “Grand Bargain” is a reduction of $4 trillion in deficit spending meaning that we will still add $6 trillion to the national debt during that period.

I don’t hold out much hope of any spending cuts. It will be more smoke and mirrors using accounting gimmicks and putting off any real spending cuts until many years out leaving it to future Congresses. Both parties want the spending binge to continue, which will be an inevitable disaster.

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There won’t be any spending cuts. Not real ones.

And any extra dough they get they’ll just use to run up record new deficits and debt.

The spiral down now is just about irreversible—save for a new political party.

[mtnwmn]

“They failed to achieve not one cent in spending cuts and passed the largest increase in the debt ceiling in history. Instead, spending continues to increase and the absolute best outcome we can expect from the “Grand Bargain” is a reduction of $4 trillion in deficit spending meaning that we will still add $6 trillion to the national debt during that period.”

That is why so many Republicans stayed home.

[Cheerio]

Republicans don’t want this protracted fight right now....too many other more important issues,..... That is always the GOP's excuse when it comes to fighting the Dems. They saidrthe same thing after they the 2010 midterms when they had all of the momentum. They failed to achieve not one cent in spending cuts and passed the largest increase in the debt ceiling in history. Instead, spending continues to increase and the absolute best outcome we can expect from the "Grand Bargain" is a reduction of $4 trillion in deficit spending meaning that we will still add $6 trillion to the national debt during that period.

With the GOP it is always "We need all three branches or we cannot achieve our goals". Let's take a little stroll down memory lane.....Republicans wave the white flag of surrender Posted on April 9, 2011 by Todd

FR post #33 by RnMomof7, "The scam of the EPA and regulating carbon will be stopped. 2012 will be the Mayan end for the Rats and their leftist rule.

NO IT WON'T.. THE PATTERN IS SET..

Then they will whine and cave and then ask for our votes to get the senate and the White house or else they can not do anything..BS

This was nothing more than a political dance "