Sad that on FR one hears the call to say “...we gave BHO EVERYTHING...” as a STARTING point for the leadership.
If the bar is THAT low, what does it matter whom takes the Weeper’s place?!
Where are the individual bills? Where is the CUT in each of those bills? There is/was the BATTLE vs. DEMs to have them debate and VOTE on said bills?
As usual, and EXPECTED, we had D.C. pissing away their advantage to run out the clock for the next ‘crisis’ inside the beltway.
Sad indeed.
Understand that time & again, the fight from the left & center (& much of the not-far right) is fiercely against cutting ANYTHING. Just reducing the standard rate of increase in spending induces hysteria & rage.
Indeed, our starting point should be nothing short of straight-up balanced budget. We’re not facing an existential threat, so there is no reason for spending to be no more than revenue. Should BHO (or whoever is POTUS) reject it for not spending more, make clear we’re happy to negotiate what gets cut and what gets funded - so long as revenue exceeds spending, period, discussion stops there, yes we’re willing to shut the whole thing down (no “paid furlough”) if we can’t agree on that under the best of conditions.