Thanks for reinforcing my point ... For you anything that does not immediately and in one fell swoop achieve the final objective is a failure. That is the clear inference drawn from your line of reasoning.
If instead of writing the first thing that comes to your mind and posting it, you read the headlines, you would discover that the ink is not yet even dry on this first battle, and we are on to the next of what will surely be multiple rounds. From Fox News:
“Despite Congress averting a shutdown, the epic clash between Republicans and Democrats was just the first of a series of fights with debates on the national debt ceiling and 2012 budget looming.”
You have written that the only satisfactory outcome is one that immediately and completely resolves the deficit problem. It’s not even so much that I disagree with you and others who are always, always, always on this site angry as all get out. Truly, I am happy to discuss differences of opinion and approach.
What bugs me is how mean and bitter you all are about anyone who would want to take a different strategy. You impugn their motives. You degrade their efforts and intelligence. You call them names.
We’re all on the same side. We can differ in our approaches and we can and should be frustrated at the slow path toward better days. But there is no cause for the kind of hate-filled nonsense that has come to characterize Free Republic these days — and directed at allies no less. Can’t you all at least train your words on our adversaries??????
By the way, you are all boring. I was once quite impressed by the level of discourse here. I think the thoughtful, contemplative, and well-reasoned posters all got bored and moved on.
You have written that the only satisfactory outcome is one that immediately and completely resolves the deficit problem.
Really? You think that I posted that I want 1.5 trillion in cuts "immediately"? Read what I posted to you above. You conclusion is based on absolutely nothing that I said.
So why did you make that up??
By the way, you are all boring. I was once quite impressed by the level of discourse here. I think the thoughtful, contemplative, and well-reasoned posters all got bored and moved on.
The name calling by you continues. You're the one who called people who disagreed with you "Knuckleheads".
As I said, the 2010 budget was 3.5 trillion with a 1.3 trillion dollar deficit. The 2011 budget, which became Boehner's budget because the Democrats never passed one, will now be 3.6 trillion with a 1.5 trillion dollar deficit. That's not "good". That's bad.
Which is why you replied to me with your snarky strawman fallacy post.