I wouldn’t expect to pass 100% of what we want. But the fact that the deal raised spending and raised fee revenue was ridiculous. The Republicans traded their defense pork for welfare pork. The budget should have simply maintained the status quo of the sequester. If that was good enough for a deal last year without a shutdown, why wouldn’t it be this year? Not to mention I think it’s a 2-year-deal, so the Republicans already gave up the store for the year after their expected “sweep” election takes place for no reason?
I agree that many Republicans hated the sequester cuts so they cut a deal on that too.
And obviously Dems hated cuts to their stuff.
Ryan never like those sequester cuts even though he originally praised that sequester bill in 2011 then spent 2+ years backtracking on them.
Bohner gave his members the shutdown they demanded but they never had focused goals or demands to go with it to use it for anything.
It was one theme after another and ended up a confusing mess and in the end Bohner did what we all knew what he would do, pass the Senate bill.
On Obama’s side it was simple. Accept the original CR as is.
It pretty much killed the appetite for another. That primed the pumps for this deal.