Smitty offers some good advice to conservatives who are justifiably outraged over the budget deal negotiated by Speaker Boehner. It’s time to take a deep breath and think about the big picture.
“Listen, ye Tea Parties: you did not give Boehner a veto-override majority in the House. You did not provide a GOP Senate Majority Leader.
You go to political war with the majority you have, not the majority you might want or wish to have at a later time, to paraphrase Rumsfeld. It’s all well and good to have people setting expectations low, and mocking the details as they leak out of the stinky diaper.
However don’t wear yourself out on the 112th Congress. This election was never more than a restraining order.
So yes, let us vent, but keep the blood pressure moderate. This Congressional rear-guard action, while tactically important, is strategically of less value than the 2012 election. We’re not fixing the deficit, much less the national debt, in a single Congress.” …
Boehner is not the enemy here, and he’s fighting with one hand tied behind his back. We all know who the real problem is.
Update: Speaking of the real problem, check out his plan for “shared prosperity and shared responsibility.” The title pretty much tells you all you need to know. The prosperous will share the wealth with everyone else while bearing the responsibility of paying for Obama’s disastrous policies. 2012 can’t come fast enough.
I am not happy with the deal that Boehner was able to broker, but I can not stress enough how much I agree with your assessment that we need to look at the bigger picture. There is a limitation to what Boehner and company will be able to accomplish in this Congress. 2012 is the bigger fish and it needs to be fried.
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I agree to a point that we need to keep the big picture in mind, however he tied his one hand behind his back when he took shutting down the government off the table. This is what troubles me.
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I get the big picture thing; however the Speaker tied his own hand behind his back when he took shutting down the government off the table and this is what troubles me.
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I can’t stand to watch 0blamer on TV because he is such a nasty mean spirited creature, but I heard his speech yesterday was truly awful, that he’s really going on the attack against anyone who doesn’t shill for his destructive agenda – oh and that he is STILL blaming Bush!
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Remain focused people. The prize is 2012.
The Dems/progressives are going to try to change the conversation and drive a wedge in the GOP using the apparent division between the fiscally austere Tea Party and the more moderate….some say RINO….GOP centrists….
Just remember we are headed up the same stream…against the same opponent. Remain focused on the ECONOMY, the Budget, DEFICITS and do not let the Democrats regain traction.
ITS THE ECONOMY STUPID……
its not abortion, class warfare, taxes, wars, religion, God, condoms for tots………………
ITS THE ECONOMY STUPID…….
Hammer em….do not let up the pressure.
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Initially, I had the same perspective on Boehner & co.’s budget deal. The recent article at National Review Online has changed my perspective. In case you’ve not read it, here’s the link: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/264599/strike-one-editors
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excuse me – the idea is to PERSUADE americans – not to play games, unless of course you know how to win. Look at the mess Paul Ryan is in over this 55 and under thing. He could have avoided that. Are we going to make the case that obamacare is stupid and destructive and unconstitutional, or are we going to play the shutdown card before we even make the case ? Ask yourself how to win a debate. Here is an example -right now there is a guy on cspan going on about reducing mistakes in hospitals. Hey – I heard Newt solving this problem YEARS ago ! Why do dems get credit for Newt’s work ? Phyllis Schlafly points out that Betty Friedan gets credit for ‘solving’ problems that were already solved – ask WHY ? Similarly, obama gets credit from the media for being ‘above the fray’ when he creates the problems. I am reading Hedrick Smith’s “The Power Game” from 1988. A bit out of date, but lots of useful points anyway. Actually I was looking for a book that exposed how lobbyists craft bills so GE ends up paying nothing -multiply that by thousands and you have part of the answer to why your taxes are so high. Of course there are the ACORN’s of the world, and all kinds of other ripoff artists draining entitlements at everybody’s expense too. The ‘hand tied behind our back’ is that the libs own the media. Now, Reagan mostly knew how to do an end run around them and frame the debate – ‘there they go again’ can be more powerful than a shutdown. We want people on our side and for the right reasons. There is a time and place for everything. Use the appropriate tool for the job.
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Smitty, following his logic, would have counseled John Paul Jones to give up the ship, or Gen’l “Nuts” McAuliffe to surrender.
Surprising.
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This is what happens when you do not toe the Libertarian line.
You get trash talked and insulted for willing to compromise in order to gain the bigger prize.
Every fiber of my being wants to throw every GOP out of the house and senate because they sincerely believe………
“Deficits don’t matter”
They will believe that long after they are dead and this country is GREECE.
But they will have gotten “THEIRS” and they will have lived a life of luxury and passed on their wealth to “THEIRS”
Every fiber of my being wants to start a third party…..but that is self destructive….it is divisive and it will hand the “VICTORY” to the progressives/democrats.
Right now they are playing the Tea party against establishment and the libertarians are threatening to hand the government to the democrats because they are indignant over this…..
Sometimes you have to make a stand….sometimes you have to retrench…..Bastogne was a stand that needed to be made…the maginot line was an entrenchment……knowing the difference is what makes Generals and colonels.
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