This economy has taken YEARS to get in the condition it is in.
It will NOT be solved all at once, no matter how much you throw a tantrum, no matter how much you b!*ch about what or was not done.
BOENER GOT THE DIMS TO BLINK. Get it?
The tone has changed from spending, spending, spending, to stopping it. It would have been far worse to shut the government down, and holding the military hostage, pout over a few billion.
Name one of the Congress-critters with the balls to do that?
This is a win for conservatism. Not the big all-or-nothing that wins us nothing but disdain from most of the electorate, but a victory.
Had the government shutdown, it would have handed Oblunder his 2nd term.
This is going to take a LOT of fighting, not just one battle for America, but a number of battles.
I agree with you. Maybe it will prove to be a watershed event that we can all look back that changed folk's view of the Nanny state of the federal government. We are doomed if we don't have a change in our thinking as a nation.