[Pining_4_TX]

OK, we all agree with what Steyn said, so now what? Many say we should keep fighting, but it seems the other side has already won. Do we go down with the ship, move out to the boonies and stockpile supplies, or try to find some place on earth that is not in the same predicament? I’m afraid most of us will go down with the ship, because the other alternatives are not feasible.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”For a good example of how Washington drives even the greatest minds round the bend, consider Charles Krauthammer’s analysis on Fox News the other night:
“I would actually commend Boehner and Paul Ryan, who in the end voted ‘yes’ for a bad deal. But they had to do it.”
If courage is the willingness to take a stand and vote for a bad deal because you’ve been painted into a corner and want Obama to fly back to Hawaii at the cost of another $3 million in public funds that could have gone to algae subsidies so he’ll stop tormenting you for a week or two, then truly we are led by giants.”

In the case of this latest deal it wasnt just O who painted Bohner in a corner.
The ‘we don’t want nuthin passed into law’ R cacuas in the House joined Dems in rejecting plan B, and that plan ewould would have keep even more of the taxes from going up than the final bill without the spending.

After that Bohner had little choice but to pass whatever crap the Senate had him. If he didnt he personally would have been blamed for everyones taxes going up, and for doing it out of spite. I didnt see a single House member step up and say he wanted Bohner's job, so much for guts.

There really was no 'principle' behind refusing to enact part of the Bush tax cuts, the ones that rejected plan B called it a tax increase as if taxes would not go up after it was killed. And they never argued that we cant afford any tax cuts without equal spending cuts, they never would.