I’m with Cruz on this
This is not a “grand bargain” or negotiation””it is complete and utter surrender…
It’s ridiculous, deceitful, and a disgrace.
Make no mistake: the speaker’s golden parachute is a victory for the Washington cartel, for the politically connected elite, and for big business and lobbyists who get in bed with career politicians to grow government…
This budget completely annihilates the 2011 budget caps, the one successful attempt at spending restraint in the Obama era.
We should never default on our debt, but this deal suspends the debt ceiling, saddling future generations with the bill for our reckless spending, while making no meaningful reforms to the programs driving our runaway spending.
The topic for tonight’s debate is the economy. Should be interesting.
I agree fully with what you wrote, and also with what Rush said today – this capitulation by the GOPe is designed to get Hillary elected. They can work with her, but not a “bomb-thrower” like Ted Cruz.
No Republican who votes for this can ever again claim they are for fiscal responsibility or limited government. Doesn’t anybody remember what happened to GHW Bush after his “Read My Lips” lie? Bill Clinton published YouTube videos of that and basically said, “You can’t trust Republicans”. Nothing has changed, sadly. We still can’t trust them.
I have never heard of a 2-year budget deal with unlimited ability to add more debt. Sickening. I am not sure what Congress is thinking. They HAVE to know that we, as voters, are angry at them. They can’t really believe we are happy with this. No way.
I think Rush may be right…they may be wanting Clinton in the office of President, so they can continue their claim of being the ‘underdog’ and win more elections as angry Republicans vote for them to make a change.
Lord save us from this disaster. Every day, I am leaning more and more in favor of Trump. I think he may be the only ‘outsider’ who could truly shake things up enough.
Read again today a Democrat posting on a story about Trump how he and some of his friends will vote for Trump if he is the nominee. They see the chaos in Europe with the muslim immigrants and they are scared.
Trump could win this thing with a lot of support from the other side. This is what we truly need in order to get this country back on the right track again. If Trump gets enough cross-over votes, he will definitely have a mandate from both parties to do what he says he wants to do.
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I don’t agree with Limbaugh. I have a different take on it—no time to write it at the moment (busy) but I will later tonight or tomorrow.
It’s still not a good take, but it’s different.
Ted is a straight shooter.
Undercut the candidates’ arguments for fiscal responsibility and limited government for sure. If this does cede the power of the purse and ability to borrow money to the Executive until 2017 what will Paul Ryan and the House be working on? I am thinking amnesty and all the problems/issues that will come with that. What will be necessary to accommodate the illegal immigrants and all of the “refugees” Obama has agreed to admit.
I have a related question. Does the House Ways and Means committee even bother to hold hearings any more? Is there even a Ways and Means committee any more? The Republican leadership, at least in the house, isn’t even trying to hide it any more; it’s autocrats all the way down. What offended me about this “budget”, even before finding out what was in it, was how it was produced and how it was presented; crafted in secret by a small handful of people and then presented to the house as some sort of fait accompli.
There was a time, and it really wasn’t that long ago; back when congress actually passed an annual budget, when congress would hold hearings while crafting the legislation. Everybody would have a chance to be heard (at least in theory), deals would be struck, compromises would be made, a consensus would be reached, and we would have a budget that nobody liked but everybody could live with. Come to think of it, that was pretty much the way just about every piece of legislation was crafted. Now it’s just diktat from on high.
And to think that people wonder why conservatives like me are so disgusted with the Republican party.
KRB
Hell, Ryan has been chair of Ways and Means only since January 2015.
Now the budget deal’s been done until March 2017. Thank the House GOP for that.
Ryan will be Speaker and still have time for his kids.
What a crappy way to run the country.
Thanks, Mitt.
It would appear that this Congress is attempting the un-Constitutional: extending its mandate into the NEXT Congress.
That’s as illegal is it is possible to be.
They aren’t running a country, they’re running a fiefdom. To the Dems though, it’s back to the old Slave Plantation glory days of the white aristocrat with his free time for art and intellectual pursuits.
When people begin look at Trump with desperation in their eyes, that is proof of the Weakness of the People, rather than the Glory of Trump.
Hard to say which will cause more misery and disappointment in the future, Civil War II or the betrayed expectations of the people in another elected politician.