[fwdude]

Winning? The Republican idea of winning is not letting the Marxist Democrats have all of what they wanted?

[Siena Dreaming]

A 3% reduction in what was supposed to be a Dem budget. I'll take it.

Now lets move onto hearings for the 2012 budget. That's where larger cuts will take place.

[hal ogen]

It is very difficult to see progress when the deficit for this current fiscal year is $1,700,000,000,000 and they MIGHT cut that by $40,000,000,000 (that’s less than a 2% cut of the DEFICIT). Elections can’t come soon enough to kick out even more DIMs and their RINO friends. These congresscritters hate you and your children.

[Buckeye McFrog]

it is very clear that the Dem tactic is to put the 2011 budget to rest any way they can and move on to the fight over the 2012 budget. It will buy them time to try and gin-up the same kind of huge anti-cut protests they’ve been having in the UK.

[econjack]

The top of my wish list is this:

The President comes out as says: “By Executive Order, all federal agencies with the exception of the branches of the military and Social Security have 10% less to spend tomorrow than they do today. If the heads of those agencies cannot keep benefit and service levels at their current level or better, they will be replaced by people who can. The expected productivity and efficiency gains are realistic and expected. Fail to fulfill those expectations and you will lose your job. Have a nice day.”

[ken5050]

The WSJ is totally wrong on this..if the GOP can’t win this little skirmish, fresh off the HUGE 2010 win, then how can we expect them to win the BIG ones..

[pgkdan]

OK great. The ‘Republicans’ are winning! Big effing deal!!! The AMERICANS are getting screwed!!!

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Republicans and tea partiers should pocket the victory and move on to the bigger fights over the 2012 budget and debt ceiling.

This is true. It's the 2012 budget where TEA philosophy will prevail. Let's move on to step two.

[mad_as_he$$]

And (as usual) the taxpayer is losing.

[Nonstatist]

A deal like this would prevent a government shutdown—at least for now—which could jeopardize the GOP's ability to win future budget fights that are more consequential. Next week, House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan will release his fiscal 2012 budget, which we are told will contain more than $2 trillion in savings over the next decade. ....

. We hope freshmen Republicans don't mistake this early budget compromise for Armageddon and refuse to vote for it. That could weaken the final deal by forcing GOP leaders to move left to get Democratic votes. Republicans are winning the spending debate because they have methodically kept their focus on spending issues rather than on extraneous policy riders. ...

Sounds like a smart strategy.

[Mariner]

Pablum.

Has the WSJ been leading the enemy class?

[zeugma]

I’m sorry, but anything less than $200B is a joke, and $500B is still not low for what is needed. I can’t believe we’re even talking about $30-40 billion in comparison to a multi-trillion dollar spending spree.