I just spent half an hour in the car getting a dose of Rush. He can't ever give a Republican credit for a bit of progress. The budget compromise bill for the shank of FY '11, apparently in Limbaughian terms was a total collapse.
It wasn't. It was an irrelevance to the real issue that has now been moved out of the way. It showcased some absolutely ludicrous language from the shrieking left and it demonstrated that movement in the right direction is possible. But, bottom line is it was pre-season ball.
The game now commences. It is a full 2012 budget, progressing seriously toward spending reduction, completed in accordance with the deadlines established by law and seriously raising the issues of entitlement program review.
Paul Ryan has put the game on the field. Boehner and team must now emphasize that no one, repeat no one, shout NO ONE currently receiving entitlements like Social Security or Medicare will get their benefits cut. It is future game and it will not kill grandma.
Obama is now going to dump generalities before the public. We're going to get the rich to "pay their fair share" and we're going to spend like drunken sailors on shore leave in Olangapo in order to "Win the Future" (whatever that means.)
This is game on. A narrow victory, but a victory nevertheless, in spring training is meaningless. Now is crunch time so let's stop second guessing yesterday.
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Exactly correct Ed. Now is the time to bring the team together and map out the strategy for the coming season. I find the rhetoric about this bill much ado about nothing.
No. It is time for Boehner (and all the rest of the old-school congressional frat-boy RINOs) to get a clue about why there was so much republican success in 2010.
The American public is onto both the democrats and their gutless republican collaborators. The message was clearly sent in 2010: we're tired of the people we elect _always_ surrendering their principles to accommodate the democrat socialist agenda, in the name of 'bi-partisanship'.
Quite simply, the nation is broke, and can't afford these political games a day longer.
Boehner dickered down the demanded $100 billion (prorated from much more for the six months remaining in the fiscal year) to $61 billion. Then, during the eight days that the Fed increased the national debt by $58 billion, he gave the dems a $38 billion 'bargain' - for an effective loss of $20 billion.
What part of "NO COMPROMISE" does Boehner fail to understand?
He has possibly done irreparable harm to the anti-Marxist position of strength republicans possessed in the House (for the 2012 budget-cutting).
He may also have destroyed the republican party's unity against the dem looters and violators of the Constitution.
Where do those honoring Tea Party ideals go now - except to a third -Conservative- Party? (Which will be further divided by the youngsters, voting for Libertarian foreign-policy isolationists and pothead supporters . . .)
Limbaugh is absolutely right, though he still sees some small amount of hope (that RINOs will finally get the message). Sorry, but I don't see a rosy future.
I agree with you, Ed.
Republican successes in the 2010 election didn't happen so much as a result of adherence to the blather of Rush Limbaugh as they did as a result of rejection of Obama, Reid, and Pelosi. The Republican base didn't shift it's support; the "independents" did. Neither the Republican base nor the Democrat base can win national elections on their own. They have to win with independents. Recognition of that fact doesn't make one a RINO. Strident adherence to positions that approximately 50% of the country will not support is a good way to lose elections. Kudos to Boehner and others for having the wisdom to understand this.
Mike B.
Well, the 38.5 billion in cuts turns out to be an actual 20 billion (read today's Wall Street Journal). This deal shows me the Republicans don't appear to have the guts to push this president to real spending reforms. It also appears the Republicans in the house are afraid of the Democrats.
Even if they had managed to get $100 billion in cuts it would still be insignificant against the amount of debt we actually face.
I'm surprised at your conclusion sir. You have a history of clear thinking but on this one, you have my head spinning. Please reconsider all of the relevent information and see if you don't find holes in whatever argument it is you are making.
Anymouse,
I love a debate, but before I can engage, I've got to have a clue about the flaws you find in my initial position which is that sweeping up the remains of the Dems malfeasance regarding enacting an FY 11 is small potatoes and the important game where the score will really count is the FY 2012 budget which must be submitted in prelim form by May 15 and final by Sept 30. If you've got more disagreements, you've got to spell them out for a senile old fat man.
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