Posted on 04/10/2011 4:38:57 PM PDT by smoothsailing
OPINION
APRIL 10, 2011
The Tea Party's First Victory
Obama opposes spending cuts right up to the time he calls them historic..
This is getting to be a habit. President Obama ferociously resists tax cuts, trade agreements and spending cuts—right up to the moment he strikes a deal with Republicans and hails the tax cuts, trade agreements and spending cuts as his idea. What a difference an election makes.
This is the larger political meaning of Friday's last minute budget deal for fiscal 2011 that averted a government shutdown. Mr. Obama has now agreed to a pair of tax cut and spending deals that repudiate his core economic philosophy and his agenda of the last two years—and has then hailed both as great achievements. Republicans in Washington have reversed the nation's fiscal debate and are slowly repairing the harm done since the Nancy Pelosi Congress began to set the direction of government in 2007.
Yes, we know, $39 billion in spending cuts for 2011 is less than the $61 billion passed by the House and shrinks the overall federal budget by only a little more than 1%. The compromise also doesn't repeal ObamaCare, kill the EPA's anticarbon rules, defund Planned Parenthood, reform the entitlement state, or part the Red Sea.
On the other hand, the Obama-Pelosi Leviathan wasn't built in a day, and it won't be cut down to size in one budget. Especially not in a fiscal year that only has six months left and with Democrats running the Senate and White House. Friday's deal cuts more spending in any single year than we can remember, $78 billion more than President Obama first proposed. Domestic discretionary spending grew by 6% in 2008, 11% in 2009 and 14% in 2010, but this year will fall by 4%. That's....
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Not me. Just one more liberal in the Senate wasteland.
SO........who did the Party you head up run in that race?
No one.
But if we had the power to put someone on the ballot there at that particular point in time, I assure you it wouldn’t be someone who stands foursquare against our party’s platform, like the Republicans did.
I’m going to a Tea Party Rally on Saturday. Trying to decide on a sign.
Share when you make up your mind. We have a tax/tea party rally Friday.
"He brought us back a historic cut in spending. We haven’t done anything like this since we demilitarized in World War II,” - Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) speaking of John Boehner.
Talk is cheap. There’s a reason you don’t, and won’t, have the power to run someone in those kinds of races, and Grizzly hit on it pretty well upthread.
No, I would think that the TEA parties’ first victory was the 2010 elections.
"He brought us back a historic cut in spending. We haven’t done anything like this since we demilitarized in World War II,” - Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) speaking of John Boehner.
And oh, by the way, the final number is really pretty much the Democrat crumb on the bottom right...
Well, whatever. You just go right ahead celebrating your mythical “victories” then.
I agree. The title is silly. The T.E.A. party has had many victories before this, otherwise the leftists wouldn’t be smearing it all the time.
And you can keep standing on the sidelines ........................ pissing and moaning about those who aren’t.
All conservatives were standing on the sidelines in that race, since the only candidates were pro-baby-killing socialists.
No they weren’t. Many of them contributed to the Brown victory.
Perfection is the enemy of good, and in 98% of the races past and present, we can either have a good conservative candidate who wins or the perfect conservative candidate who loses.
You may have had the perfect candidate, but no one voted for him.
That leaves it up to those of us who support the good guys to save this republic for another day.
Not much I can do for those who are willing to delude themselves into believing they’re doing something for conservatism by electing pro-baby-killing socialists.
Then they are at best conservatives in name only. Their actions belie their words.
The fault is yours, you didn’t offer an alternative.
Hey, at least I’m not pretending...especially pretending to support conservatism by supporting pro-baby-killing socialism.
Actually, you’re contributing to the pro-choice crowd by not running a candidate against them, you’re just laying down and letting them win by default.
Hey, unlike yourself, I know the limits of my ability.
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