No the GOP will not look good with this. But 0bama and the Dems will look bad.
As I have said before we are fighting a war on two fronts: the fiscal front and the political front. If we use all of our resources to win the fiscal front we will lose the political front. If we don’t win politically in 2012 the war is lost. We must concentrate on holding the fiscal front in somewhat check (we may have to give ground) and throw all of our resources to winning politically. Then we can truly go after big government. If the GOP fails to do that then it is all over anyway. But they are our best hope right now.
If the GOP forces the Dems and 0bama to swallow this plan, the Dems and 0bama will have lost on every demand save one. They demanded new taxes and an extension past the 2012 election. The GOP was always going to increase the debt ceiling. But I think they could have forced bigger spending cuts. But the war is not over.
If Reid and 0bama accept this deal they will lose bigger than we will. If they reject it out of hand they will lose even bigger.
I sure I will be burnt at the conservative stake for this, but this is how I feel about this: we saved the Union from doom with the last election. We elected a bunch of folks to carry our “we are pissed” message. They have moved the whole Congress and President. We need to cash in now even though we did not get all we wanted. We will have another fight in November with the next debt limit vote and we can use this for the next election. The next election is where we can get the total win. We need to be patient.
I sure I will be burnt at the conservative stake for this, but this is how I feel about this: we saved the Union from doom with the last election. We elected a bunch of folks to carry our “we are pissed” message. They have moved the whole Congress and President. We need to cash in now even though we did not get all we wanted. We will have another fight in November with the next debt limit vote and we can use this for the next election. The next election is where we can get the total win. We need to be patient.