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.
“Now get the hell to work on the Obamacare repeal, of course we all know that will never happen either.”
I think the Tea Party and other fiscal conservatives won’t let themselves be bullied into silence next time.
If they had “held the line” as you put it, the Democrats would have engineered some defacto-default, stopped Granny’s checks, blamed the Tea Party with the help of the media, and would have severely damaged the Republicans in 2012. I saw this script before... it happened during the gov’t shutdown in the mid 90’s.
This isn’t a battle... its a war. And the next big skirmish, perhaps the biggest of all, is in 2012. We’re in a great position to take the Senate, hold the House, and take the White House. We’re changed the narrative, taken a first step (albeit a small one), and stopped the rubber stamping of increases to the debt limit.
A “victory” as you describe it now would have been very very short-lived. Long term is the only way we fix this.
“Those Tea Party Congress was sent there to HOLD THE LINE for us. They caved. Where is the victory in that? NONE.”
I’m not Tea Party per se. And I spoke out that “some” compromise was going to be necessary when stalwarts like Jim Robinson said to “hold the line.” I now realize I was wrong. Really wrong!
I foolishly believed that the Tea Party conservatives would get at least half of what they sought IF they compromised and played along. Shows what a fool I can be.
Jim Robinson was right...and now I publically state I was wrong and apologize to him for my suggestions of the necessity of compromise. You cannot compromise with these establishment types....they only will play you for a fool.
Now get the hell to work on the Obamacare repeal, of course we all know that will never happen either.
I respectfully dis-agree with you sir. In the not too distant future, nobody will buy federal gov’t bonds anymore. This is as certain to happen as the sun coming up.
At that point, even printing money won’t be enough to continue all programs, all departments and so on. There is a 40% cut in the size of the federal government coming down the hill at the socialist’s and there is not a damn thing ANYBODY can do to stop it! Sadly, outside forces will force it all to happen! Our 3 branch system is irreparably broken. It is going to messy, messy and violent!!! As I have argued before, the best thing that could happen to America is for the government to have horrible credit so that they CANNOT borrow money and are forced to live within their means like the rest of us.