To be completely frank, I didn’t support either of them before this, either, for a number of important reasons.
But their support for a bill that would have borrowed and spent trillions more, just like Obama wanted, is just one more brick in that wall.
Every one is trying to cover themselves now, but some of us have paid close attention through every single step of this process.
And the fact is, there were only NINE House Republicans who didn’t at one point or another vote to raise the debt ceiling by more than two TRILLION. And most of the rest of the Republican establishment was on the wrong side of that equation.
Been reading some of the things you've written lately and agree with a fair share. I get the frustration.
I reluctantly was pulling for CCB insofar that it trimmed 6 or 7 trillion off the estimated 9 or 10 trillion to be borrowed over ten years. Capped expenditures as a percentage of GDP and forced a vote on the BBA. Figured it was a start. I am certain that if the Conservative cause would have not approved the raise in the debt ceiling, we would have "owned" the economy forever after. With SO many people on the dole, the media would have focused on soup kitchens, homeless shelters, etc. ad infinitum and the discussion would have never been changed from that scene and pointing out everyday that the Tea Party "caused it". Would have been too much of a system shock imo. Wish it wasn't so, but that's how I see it. But I also figure that we have about a one in ten shot of not having "soup kitchen America" within a few years anyway.
Not very happy about what did pass. It for sure is a boon for the establishment. Don't know of any other way to control our destiny right now but for winning elections and throwing out the dead wood.