[Sola Veritas]

There was NO Tea Party victory in this debacle.....Palin, et. al. should stop saying otherwise. The Tea Party was played and duped. If you are a fiscal conservative, you should be furious.

[MichaelNewton]

If it weren’t for the Tea Party, the Democrats—and Republicans too—would have done much worse.

[Lets Roll NOW]

Nobody won, there are no cuts. We will have to fight this fight again and again.

[Roccus]

Whenever this many politicians vote for the same thing, there is only one loser......the taxpayer.

[TomServo]

[mad_as_he$$]

How’s that “big win” feeling now?

[Cheetahcat]

Do not forget Obamas Orange ,Golfing Buddy,The Bonehead ,who was also the prime negotiator,on the Ceiling and the CR, remember how that worked out (Puke),In short we have a good Army with a RINO traitor leading it!

[DOGHEAD]

Guys we only have 1/3 of the Govmt controls. This was a skirmish.. I’m tired of hearing Donald Trump and others
complaining... We had a skirmish and held the ground and did not cede the ground. It was only one skirmish in a war.. Do you want people like Donald Trump by your side during the next fight? How are we going to win the war when we cannot stand together through only one skirmish
when they had 2/3 more resources than we did. I’m proud.
Keep up the fight! Don’t stop and don’t turn on your own
folks!

[mazda77]

Palin, et. al. should stop saying otherwise

If you read it peoperly, she was inflecting a bit of sarcasm. Hear it and you'll pick it up.

[annieokie]

I am beyond Furious, I'm over the top LIVID.

Those Tea Party Congress was sent there to HOLD THE LINE for us. They caved. Where is the victory in that? NONE.

And I don't want to hear, "It could have been worse", NO, it could have been BETTER, if they had just kept their promise.

For once let the CRISIS happen, of course there never was a crisis and we know it. So any guesses on what the next CRISIS, the sky is falling panic will be?

Now get the hell to work on the Obamacare repeal, of course we all know that will never happen either.

[oldbrowser]

This was an intervention by the taxpayers trying to stop the spendaholics in Washington. In the end we got a promise to do better in the future if we just give them another 2.5 trillion dollars.
This is the way it happens every time with addicts of any kind; just give them what they want and they promise they will never do this again.

A successful intervention would have been if we had stopped them cold and forced a shutdown of the government's non essential services. We could have then had a serious discussion about the size of government services given the size of our wallet. I guess we have not hit rock bottom yet.

[Tzimisce]

There will be fallout for this.

The next step is for the Ruling Class to show us our proper place.

It will be harsh.

[McGruff]

You know that commercial, “Can your hear me now?”. We showed them we can filibuster at least in the House. Just have to keep the pressure on the establishment Republicans.

[GeronL]

This was a victory for big government to keep the ponzi scheme going for another few more years

[so_real]

I am furious. No doubt. The opposition swarmed over our team and defeated us. The line didn't hold. And it appears a few people, like Benedict Arnold Alan West, switched teams on us -- that didn't help. We were beatedn by superior forces.

The "you won" mantra is not, however, a "sales pitch". They are not trying to convince us we had a victory in order to appease us. The purpose of this media dagger is to set the stage for further borrowing (aka. theft of tax payer dollar) as this outrageous debt ceiling increase and budget fail miserably.

The liberals and RINO's are setting us up to take the blame for its failure. In the future they will call to tax us further in order to repair what they will say is "the damage the Tea Party visited upon the economy". Call us "winners" today in order to disenfranchise us tomorrow as this political feces of a budget further destroys the economy.

I give Sarah Palin a pass, however. In the interviews I've heard, she appeared to be saying our "success" was in our ability to make the establishment nervous. The Tea Party flexed its young muscle for the first time in politics. We didn't win, but we did give the other team cause to take notice. She is encouraging further exercise of that muscle. I did not hear her indicate this budget bill was any type of legislative victory.

[YHAOS]

As usual, Rush is right, even with half his brain tied behind his back.

[broken_arrow1]

‘the arguement is that the Republicans didn’t want to take the blame if they said NO to raising the debt ceiling, which could impede chances of winning Senate and Presidency in 2012.

Now, suppose that Republicans do win big in 2012. Then what? Do they make massive cuts in entitlements and end EPA, DoEnergy, DoEducation, HUD, etc.? The deficit?...NOT LIKELY, for the same reason - they want Republicans to be re-elected in 2014, expecially the freshmen will be sophomores by then! THEY WILL NEVER HOLD THE LINE!!! and we as a nation are going down like Greece.

We have been duped!

[Gene Eric]

>> The Tea Party was played and duped.

TEA was not a willing participant to the elite bastards’ mockery and excoriation.

[MontaniSemperLiberi]

But we “changed the conversation in Washington”......

[rogue yam]

The tea party was neither played nor duped.

Yes, the deal is crap, but most people know that and that's the point.

Without the tea party there would have been a clean debt ceiling increase and all of the talk right now would be about "green jobs", high-speed rail, and more "stimulus".

Now America has woken up to the fact that we're broke, we're still spending like crazy, and the 'Rats have absolutely nothing to offer on any subject.

So now for the next fifteen months we will all demand a plan to balance the budget, entitlement reform, roll-back of regulations, and a slashing of spending.

The 'Rats will be handcuffed on all of this and the tea party caucus will lead the way to the biggest election day rout this country has ever seen.

It all starts now!

[alstewartfan]

I guess you didn’t hear her on Hannity. She does NOT believe that this was a victory in any way. She considers it a debacle, which it is. Bob