In this ONE CASE he did win. He called the President’s bluff on “the sky is falling” because of the sequester and the country saw that it wasn’t.
Not a very big win, but a win - and hopefully a first step.
They managed to get the Senate to publish a budget. Haven’t yet gotten the same from the Executive branch.
A little bit of tactical progress.
This is definitely not the “end of the beginning” to paraphrase Churchill.
I think it was bigger than you might realize. I don’t think it was a coincidence that the global financial markets ramped up the value of the U.S. dollar on the very day that “sequestration” took effect. All it took was a tiny little indication that Uncle Sam was willing to reduce its outlays in the future, and suddenly we began to look like a model of fiscal responsibility around the world.
Thank God for small triumphs....We did manage to jam JugEars gears a bit. Rand Paul and Ted Cruz know how the jam their gears too. How to take them on verbally