Here’s the bottom line.
Obama wanted the shutdown badly to demagogue up is 42% approval rating up. The little speech he gave last night at 11:00 pm EST that was aired across the country wasn’t the oratory he wanted to unleah against the Republicans. And Boehner moved the Democrats more than they wanted to go getting 38.5 billion in cuts. It wasn’t the 61 billion the Tea Party may have wanted, but not handing the Dems a shutdown is more important.
Spending cuts is important and the GOP needs to slash as much as necessary to avoid financial disaster for the United States.
However, if the choice is between getting an additional amount of money cut from spending or giving the Dems and Obama a tool i.e. a “government shutdown” to spew a torrent of lies about people dying in the streets because of heartless Republicans, I say it’s more important to make sure that Obama is a one term president. Don’t give him the bullets to shoot you with!
The name of the game is getting cuts and keep Obama weak!
CBS News reports House Speaker John Boehner emerged the star when tense negotiations among congressional leaders wound up heading off a government shutdown, in the eyes of CBS News political analyst John Dickerson.
"He's the big victor, indeed," Dickerson told "Early Show on Saturday Morning" co-anchor Jeff Glor. ... The number of people (among Republicans) unhappy with the Speaker is small. ... The priorities that Speaker Boehner had are the priorities you have to have when you're trying to get your members together, get something that can actually pass, and negotiate with the other house of Congress, and with the White House.
"Republicans are often saying, 'Look, we only control just the House of Representatives. There are these other two big forces in Washington.' Given that there are those two other big forces, John Boehner got a lot of spending reductions that Republicans wanted, [and] moved Democrats much closer to where the Republican position was. So it was a big, big night for him."
President Obama, Glor noted, praised the deal. But was he a winner here?
"It is rather awkward for him," Dickerson responded. "Earlier in the week, when he gave a news conference, he seemed irritated that he had to get involved at all in this sort of bickering between the two houses of Congress. He got involved. He was certainly pressuring Speaker Boehner at various points.
"But if we compare this to the deal that the president struck at the end of last year, on the Bush tax cuts, [where] he was able to say, 'Look, Republicans got what they wanted in the tax cuts, and we got other things for lower income Americans, and things that progressives and liberals would like,' - in this case, what he got was just that the deal wasn't as bad as they thought it was going to be.
"There aren't a lot of things in here that the president can say, 'I won these things.' He can only say, 'I kept these bad things from happening.' "
Tea Party members, Dickerson noted, also "didn't get everything they wanted. But they certainly were on John Boehner's mind all the time, and that's one of the reasons he really stuck to his guns here, and pushed this to the last minute. And they will also be trying to prove that they are still as powerful as they were since they didn't get all of the cuts they wanted. So, yes, this will be something we'll be talking about in this (upcoming) larger budget battle (over the next fiscal year and beyond), for sure."
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Obama is one the ropes and the Left knows it. At this point, keep the foot on Obama’s neck and DON’T LET HIM UP!
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