[Secret Agent Man]

Whether he’s right or not, what bothers me is that I know 100% the Republicans in the leadership will blow it.

[vbmoneyspender]

Peter Beinart is a hardcore leftist but at least he understands the idea that in a negotiation you start off asking for more than you are willing to settle for. Too bad people like Michael Medved, John Podhoretz, Jonah Goldberg, Charles Krauthammer and most of the Republicans in the United States Senate don’t understand that basic principle of negotiation.

[Steven Tyler]

I am drinking his sweet, sweet tears

[SaxxonWoods]

The comments under the article are precious.

Are the posters here who insist the R’s will fold the same ones who said the R’s would never go forward with the shutdown?

Asking for a friend.

I like this govt slowdown. I like it better every day.

[Daffynition]

The wrong family is in the White House. *Our house.*

Based on today's outpouring in DC, I am still encouraged, that American Patriots will take this Republic back from the brink. This writer, like his/her sniveling sycophants, are out-of-touch with the will of the People. *WE THE PEOPLE*, that's us.

[Fungi]

This guy is a flaming liberal. I would not believe anything he says, good, bad or indiffernt, or even complimentary.

[Talisker]

...the GOP keeps moving the ideological goalposts and the press keeps playing along.

One of the most reliable Leftist tactics is to blame their victims of what they are doing. This is a perfect example.

[Jabba the Nutt]

Like some cheese with that whine, Peter?

The natural state is that the Federal Government increases spending and raises taxes forever and ever, Amen. The Democrat Party is insane.

[Jabba the Nutt]

This reminds me of the joke. Two Jews were sitting on a park bench reading the newspaper back in the 30's. One Jew was reading the New York Times with concern at the terrible things happening to the Jews in Nazi Germany. The second Jew was reading the Nazi propaganda newspaper Der Stuermer.

The first Jew finally can't take it anymore, he asks the second Jew, how can you read that Nazi rag.

The second Jew says, well you read how weak, poor and oppressed the Jews are. In my paper, I read how rich and powerful Jews are, that they run the world.

Beinart's in a different world from us.

[fieldmarshaldj]

$1.2 trillion over TEN years ? That’s nothing. We need to be cutting that much and more every YEAR.

[neverdem]

Rush discussed this essay.

I think Cruz and Lee did a great Alinsky on Obamacare in the meantime. Obama came off looking mean and vindictive.

[Night Hides Not]

Hey Libs, the 2011 Budget Control Act is the “Law of the Land,” live with it.