Hey if it makes you feel better, go for it. I got tired of getting my ass chewed trying to offer any kind of reasonable analysis of this last night. Everyone knows what you say here is true. Including Boehner. But it took 30 years of overspending and overconsuming to get us to this point and it’s going to take more than one halfway budget bill to get us out.
Did we get what we wanted? No. Did the other side? NO. Do we live to fight another day? HELL YEAH!
I don’t know if we will get everything we want in the next showdown or not, but I do know this: If what happened last November hadn’t happened, we would not even be having is conversation. So before you go out to tar and feather Speaker Boehner, just take a few minutes and think back to the grand old boxtox-filled jet-setting days of Speaker Pelosi.
You have a good point - the election last November has at least brought this to the attention of many average Americans.
We have set the narrative and framework for 2012 and forward.
39 billion over 5 months will now be a baseline, over a year that is 80 billion in cuts that Dems have agreed to.
In 2012 we should be able to push for 150 in cuts over an entire FY. If the elections in 2012 go our way, we can start to push for the Rand Paul 500 billion dollar cuts.
This is a marathon, not a sprint
Another Freeper a month ago or so, who sounded as if he/she knew Boehner personally, actually said Pelousy is considered a “friend” by Boehner.....scary thought.
There had better be some sort of strategy to this, because it looks like the cocktail party members (the repubs AND the dims) just want to continue to go to the coacktail parties....on the taxpayer’s dime....and-—WE’RE OUTTA DIMES.
Imagine what the deficit would be if the democrats still controlled the House. Keep the pressure on the GOP. But don’t turn it back over to the dems.
This is the very reason conservatives are disgusted. We worked hard to get conservatives elected and take control of the House. We were promised $100 billion in cuts. Then we found out that our crybaby "leadership" thought this would be too mean and we would have to accept $61 billion but we would get it by eliminating the puss filled planned parenthood and NPR subsidies. Then we were told that the $61 billion in cuts would be too mean and we would have to accept less but we would not budge on the planned parenthood subsidies. Now we find out Crybaby settled for $38 billion, a number the Dems are laughing at, and to get the laughing Dems to agree to this pittance we had to cave on abortion funding.
Right now I put Crybaby as the number one defender of taxpayer funded abortions and chief supporter of profligate spending. Apparently he, and you, have a radically different opinion from me about what the message from the voters was in the last election.
You don't understand that the emperor has no clothes. You can rant all you want about compromise and fighting another day but it is becoming extremely obvious that our "leadership" is indeed naked.
The only hope I see on the horizon is a strong leader like Trump. The elite, effete, nancy boy Republicans get rolled by the much tougher Democrats every time. Can you imagine Reid trying that crap with someone like Trump? The Republicans, and the Country, will continue to slide backwards until we get strong leadership. We won't get it from professional politicians.