“Frankly, we are lucky we made the headway we did.”
This is what we are being told to think. I say BS, conservative came out the big losers here. Even the brain dead public understood this arguement.
‘If you take ten dollars into a store you can’t buy a twenty dollar item’.
If you have a credit card bill for $5,000.00 dollars and you can only pay $1,000.00 you are going to have to make payments with interest’
We conservatives had 75% of the public behind a balanced budget and lowering the deficit. It is VERY rare that there is such a consensus on any major issues. The beltway Republican establishment caved when they could have pressed the issue for a win. Instead they supported a deal which increases the debt ceiling by almost 10 trillion dollars over the next decade. The Democrats scored big here, not only did they get to continue out of control spending but they managed to divide the Republicans even more.
I dropped out of the Republican Party during GW’s second run knowing full well what this Party has become. Every Republican that voted for this bill must be defeated. I will never give up the fight. I will always vote conservative.
“We conservatives had 75% of the public behind a balanced budget and lowering the deficit.”
You’re right.
But there is a strong, long-standing and perpetually cultivated entitlement mentality in America that will take decades to de-program..... some of them even call themselves Conservatives. I have met them.
They ADORE ‘fitting in’ with MSM culture in America and being accepted by Liberals. They love what they can get from the government BUT they HATE what is costing them. They vote Liberal more often than not… and they make me sick.
Anyway… the entitlement mentality (however it is constituted from one election to another) is almost an insurmountable obstacle to the idea of fiscal accountability. But a first step was made... that’s what I meant