I was ticked off at first, too - but as I read many different analyses I think maybe this frames the debate for future, and much larger battles.
The libtard media is in bed with the demoncrats, so no matter what the reality is, WE would have been the reason for Gov. "shutdown".
We originaly proposed 31 billion in cuts, the Dems said no - the Tea Party Congressmen/women wanted 61 billion, so we got 38 - better than the 31 Dingy Harry said was a non-starter.
Not a big victory for "us", but I think this sets the stage, with our eyes on 2012, for much grander victories.
Bachman in 2012!!
It wasn’t a victory at all, unless you think that increasing spending from 2010 to 2011 by $300 Billion MORE dollars is a “cut.”
The GOP is corrupt and in bed with the media and the Democrats. Note how virtually NONE of the media is reporting the actual budget figures for this budget. Instead they keep parroting that this is a $39 Billion cut.
But it’s not a cut in actual dollars — just a cut from the increase that Obama wanted. It’s no cut at all — its an increase of about $300 billion over last year’s fiscal budget.
You’re being taken by the GOP. Same crap they’ve been saying since 1985 and TEFRA (another infamous Republican budget compromise, that the Establishment sold us as a victory.)