All of your arguments may be valid, in the near term. However, who is considering our children and grandchildren?
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I completely understand what you’re saying, as I have a daughter and grandkids.
In re the “near term”: We can’t eat the elephant (no ref. to GOP) in one bite; we have to do it a piece at a time.
This little budget bill removes the ability of the Dems to attack the GOP about shutdowns (which would hurt the GOP in 2014, as they would be again falsely blamed), etc.
The GOP needs good press, not false accusations, to keep the House majority and win the majority in the Senate. If that can be done in 2014, a GOP Legislative branch can do a lot to change things. ....Proof is in the past.
Clinton’s last 6 years had a GOP Legislature and was forced to agree to many positive actions so he could be re-elected for a second term.
Bush’s last 2 years had a DEM Legislature that forced him to just give in to them because they were veto proof.
Sorry, but bullsh!t.
As no Congress can obligate the next, the ONLY way is to take the big bites. This concept of piece-meal ALWAYS means 2 steps forward (for the Dems) and MAYBE one step back (GOP)...though I haven’t seen ANY reversal in many a year.
I, unlike the low-info voters that lock-step with the DEM, can handle multitasking. And, again, I had NO problem with the shutdown (except the damn capitulation EVERY step by the Weeper EG: re-institute back-pay for those that SHOULDN’T BE EMPLOYED); I knew what was why.
If the GOP needs good press, maybe it should TALK once in a blue. All I’ve heard are crickets on everything from F&F to the NSA/IRS. Yeah, real good way to rally the voters by NOT making their displeasure known...unless it’s against the Tea Party/(C)/etc. as the Weeper has done with the budget.
As to Clinton vs. Bush, false argument. One does not merely sell out their principles because the others have the votes. You make them PAY for each vote, you voice WHY, and make over-ride the veto. I sure as shit don’t subscribe to the ‘destroy the Republic to save the Republic’.