GOP SELLS OUT IN OBAMA BUDGET DEAL

GOP SELLS OUT IN OBAMA BUDGET DEAL
boblonsberry.com ^ | 04/09/11 | Bob Lonsberry

Posted on Monday, April 11, 2011 9:00:32 AM by shortstop
Breathe deep.

That’s what defeat smells like.

Get used to it.

Boehner and the freshmen sold us out.In the first test of the new speaker, in the first demonstration of what the tea party Republicans are made of, they got nothing.

They caved.

They sold out.

And we got screwed.

Do this math with me. The deficit is $1.4 trillion. They cut $38 billion. That’s less than 3 percent.

And that’s failure.

You write a check for $100 more than you have in your account. The bank tells you it’s rubber. So you rip it up and write a check for $97 more than you have in your account and you call yourself a fiscal conservative.

That’s what we got.


We got blown off.

Deficit spending is the greatest threat to the stability and future of our Republic. We know that in our hearts, and we heard it in campaign speeches.

But we sure as hell didn’t see it in this deal. What we saw in this deal is another generation of empowered Republicans contenting themselves to be Democrat Lite.

The guy who sticks a knife nine and three-quarters inches into your back is not any better than the guy who sticks a knife 10 inches into your back.

And it wasn’t just in the pocket book where the Republicans sold out, it was also in the heart. The party that loves to talk about principles didn’t have any.

In the world of government, money equals priorities. You can’t separate budget from policy. What you decide to fund, and how much you decide to fund it, is money on one end, but people’s lives on the other. If one group’s pet projects get money, and another’s don’t, it makes a lot of difference.

Which is why environmentalists and the pro-abortion people are so happy. They won like crazy.


On the two issues the Republicans said they wouldn’t compromise on – they compromised.

If by “compromised” you mean “surrendered.”

The $300 million federal tax dollars Obama and Harry Reid wanted to go to Planned Parenthood – the money John Boehner said absolutely couldn’t go to Planned Parenthood?

It’s going to Planned Parenthood.

And the horrific global-warming regulations, the ones that strangle the economy and our freedom and ensure America’s prosperity continues to decay and erode, those came through unscathed.

You went to bed promised by the Republicans that they would take care of those.

And they did.

They made them permanent.

In the end, there were no principles. In the end, there was no victory. In the end, there was no change.....................................