IF THE WASHINGTON POST SAYS WE WON WE ARE REALLY f’ED.....
The deal allows the Bush tax rates to expire, that is a tax increase......
Call and tell them to vote HELL NO.
So if I spend $1 dollar less every year, why do I need to borrow $1 more every year?
NOONE has won anything, because the Bush tax cuts will expire, and that’s a tax increase. The military budget will be gutted, if the 3 dems and 3 GOP miss deadline on reducing spending cuts in October, and cannot agree.
Obama is master deceiver, and they only get a vote on the Balanced Budget Amendment...that’s not a win.
How many things has REID tabled without a vote. This is not a win, and 2 trillion over ten years is chump change, and the debt climbs.
The ony hope is Obama loses in 2012. Today I heard thousands of layoffs are coming from several companies, on top of bad news already...double dip recession in the next year...count on it.
I’m not holding my breath on this one, especially with the “super committee” provision, which is a complete joke.
Hobbits kneel for no man.
LOL, the debt will be 26 trillion in 10 years, how many more time can we afford to win. A super tanker could not carry thy load of BS.
LOL, the debt will be 26 trillion in 10 years, how many more time can we afford to win. A super tanker could not carry thy load of BS.
if we cut a dollar of spending for every dollar we raise the debt limit, we will balance the budget in 10 years
Now I’m really confused. I cut my monthly spending by a dollar each month. But I raise the amount I CAN spend every month. And that’s a balance?
Hilarious. Even if the get the full 2.2 trillion, it's nowhere near what Obama's already spent since 2009.
I suppose this “hobbit” comparison would mean the Dems are orcs and Obama is Sauron.
I am glad to be called a Hobbit. The Hobbits had a small government. They had mayors and sheriffs, but virtually no governmental bureaucracy. While Hobbits could be called naive and were all too willing to share, they did not steal from each other and believed in private property. So yes, I am glad to be a Hobbit!
Boehner promised any bill would give Americans 72hrs to read any bill on the internet, going thru congress, we are so screwed
It’s very cheering to have the WaPo terrorizing the Left, making them shriek and just generally harassing them, before the leaders only “deal” even goes for a vote. Let’s give this 72 hours and see how this shakes out before we blow up entirely. Pelosi & crowd may not go for it en masse and 20 some of our guys may not bite either.
Gandalf:
“Hobbits really are amazing creatures. You can learn all there is to know about their ways in a month, and yet after a hundred years they can still surprise you.”
IMHO, we won in the sense that we got nearly the best deal that we could have obtained under the circumstances. We need to win the White House and the Senate next year to really change things for the better.
Well, the problem with this analysis is that the Tea Party members will be voting against the bill.
Pelosi has been told to whip up 100 plus votes to get it through the House (Obama still has his stimulus stash heh heh).
But he’s right that the Tea Party got a much better bill passed. But it’s still not good enough. It won’t fix the problem.
In sum: the best thing about this ‘Tea Party bill’ is that only Dems and RINOs will be voting for it LOL!
And when the economy worsens, as it will, the Tea Party message will be even more popular- and the Dems’ and RINOs’s will be discredited.
Who says the Tea Party can’t play hardball?
I don't think the writer of the column is exactly the primary mouthpiece of the WaPo.
Dealing with the debt crisis and budget deficits and Obamacare and other issues is a war that will have many battles. Some people need to learn to declare partial victory and go on to the next significant battle. This increase in the debt ceiling has taken up enough time and has become a distraction from all other issues.
Neither side was ever going to get just what it wanted. Declare victory and prepare for the next battle.