“Dems took away your doctor. Dems took away your health care”
If nothing else they will stay home
The only thing to like [not hate] about this is that is does indeed remove the power of the purse from the Senate Dems - which they had effectively stolen.
Hence the focus of DC can be 0bamacare and the nightmare it is as we roll toward 2014.
I heard some real world-class dumba$$es on Hannity last night
One guy kept saying the his beloved Obama had “cut the deficit in half” and “given health care to millions”
And talked about “what are WE going to do about people who don’t have insurance? as it is is OUR problem and only “the government” has solutions for everything.
And these were no stupid-sounding people.
And I am getting VERY tire of everyt BLACK guest saying “can i finish my statment” 100 times whenever you interupt to point out they are factually incorrect
(yes it is MOSTLY black guests I hear saying this- I dont know why, its not a racist thing, it is just what I SEE )
The bottom line is that this bill increases the deficit and spending and grows the government. It does not solve one single problem... this bill is meaningless unless you want compromise for the sake of compromise. Cruz says this, Rush says this, Levin says this and I say this. You can disagree but we are correct about exactly what I have stated above. Republicans have never won an argument or an election compromising with the dims... to quote clinton... “Not one single time”.
Oh and wasn’t it the same CBO that stated that OBAMACARE WILL ONLY COST 924 BILLION DOLLARS OVER 10 YEARS????? Does anyone trust their math any longer??? More like 22.5 billion in cuts over ten years... not 85 billion and that figure is probably a lie.
There are times when it becomes necessary to move tactically in a undesirable direction in order to succeed strategically.
This is such a time. Obamacare, as it continues to roll out with predictable impacts and results, is going to be the gift that keeps on giving.
Accepting, tactically, this budget deal in order to get it off the table is acceptable if doing so results in a GOP House AND Senate in January 2015 that can pass and send spending real reductions to Obama.
I’m not happy with it. But politics is the art of the possible and conservatives who insist on asking for the impossible will only harm our chances of turning Obama into a real lame duck year.
When he is drowning, they want to throw him a life vest through another ill-advised government shutdown. The GOP would have eventually had to vote for another budget retreat when that was all over.
Wiser heads saved the GOP from another humiliating rout at the hands of Obama and the Democrats.
I strongly disagree.
The GOP leadership may claim it has long-held policy goals, but, in action, they have no intention of changing anything.
RE: “They [the leadership] want to keep the focus squarely on Obamacare and a painfully sluggish, high unemployment economy in the midterm campaigns, unimpeded by distracting threats of another shut down.”
It doesn't matter if we win the Senate in 2014, and, in my opinion, we have almost no chance of winning it anyway.
The GOP leadership is NOT going to do the serious strategic thinking or accept the political risks that will be required to repeal ObamaCare.
The GOP leadership is NOT going to make politically painful cuts in the budget.
The GOP leadership is NOT going to undertake serious reform on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid - except to increase the taxes and reduce the benefits of the upper middle class, of course.
For comic relief, here are the 19 goofiest pictures of Bork Obunga:
http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/13/the-19-most-awesomely-ridiculous-obama-photos-of-2013/
Pass them along!