If this is victory, I'd hate to see defeat.
At the present time, the Republicans are a pronounced minority in both the House and the Senate. And there is a Democrat President.
Nonetheless, a victory has been achieved: Extending the Bush tax cuts.
It's hardly a defeat.
“Otherwise, this is a victory for conservative
If this is victory, I’d hate to see defeat. “
You have a short memory.... Obamacare, stimulus, cap & tax, budget-busting pork bills... that was just the last 20 months.
Now we have, even before the new Congress is sworn in: Obama caves on taxes, doing the one thing he promised in his campaign NOT to do, and approve and validate the Bush tax cuts.
Small victory. half-a-loaf. compromise. lousy deal. Whatever you call it ... It’s still a move in the RIGHT direction, for the first time in about 4 years, the first thing that will move us, just for a while, in the tax-us-less direction.
I think the GOP should have bargained harder myself, we need more boldness and vigor and fight in what we do, but its not a defeat.