“This is smart. The Dems wanted to turn the debate away from debt reduction and discipline to “those evil Republicans shutting down the government”. Take the small victory, build momentum, take a false issue away from them and live to fight another day. Don’t throw the good out for the sake of the perfect.”
I agree with you, ... BUT ... they needed it to be $60-100 billion ... that’s why it was wrong to go in with $60 billion upfront, they should have been bolder.
Everything the GOP does gets watered down 4X.
They NEEDED to defund Obamacare and make that a key principle, not take it off the table. They needed to do a $100b+ cut.
It’s also why the Democrats/Reid HAVE DONE NOTHING. They dont want any fingerprints on this... Republicans should stick to their guns UNTIL REID PASSES AN ALTERNATIVE.
Boehner should go back and say “Great, pass it in the Senate, then we will pass something in the House and lets compromise from there” the ‘there’ will be a Senate version at $30 b and a house version of $60b ,so you get AT LEAST $30b and hopefully more like $50b at the end.
Minimum. They talked $100 billion to get elected. They started negotiations by saying they wouldn't shut down the govt. 0bama reigned them in instantly by saying no more than 60B and they capitulated immediately.
They ended up with 33B. Pathetic.