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That Budget Deal Some of You Love Isn’t Much of a Deal

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  April 13th, 2011 at 05:23 PM  | 

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That budget deal some of you have been going ga-ga over? Turns out it does not cut $38.5 billion. According to the Congressional Budget Office, it only cuts $353 million.

Tim Pawlenty is the first 2012 candidate coming out of the gate in opposition to the deal. He’s urging Republicans to vote against it.

Frankly, at this point, any House Republican who votes for the compromise should be flogged by the tea party movement — metaphorically speaking of course.

And we might really need to reconsider whether or not our existing leadership has the moral authority to continue leading. They said they were all in for $100 billion. Cut it to $61 billion. Compromised at $38 billion. And now that turns out to be $353 million.

This is embarrassing.

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UPDATE: The one silver lining in all of this is that the House GOP Freshmen should now be radicalized against any deal cut by the House leadership.

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  • donnybrooke

    Sounds like using a metal rod on sensitive parts.

    Unfortunately, I don’t think it will do any good. Calls, e-mails, letters seem to have no effect. What is it that will get through to the GOP leadership? Do we have to go “Wisconsin Labor Union Crazy” before they will pay attention? I sincerely hope not.

  • bk

    would there have been any cuts at all?

  • http://www.neoavatara.com/blog neoavatara

    …but if this is the case, I would vote against it as well.

    I took leaders of our party at their word. I guess I got burned…again.

    If the real cuts are less than a billion, I say shut it down…and let the cards fall where they may.

  • alaskaescapeartist

    MORE FRESHMEN

  • chihank

    Should Tea Party Senators attempt to filibuster the budget deal in the Senate?

  • runner12

    strategy. Some of our Representatives think that you should take what you can get given the Dems own the WH and Senate. Others think you should swing for the fence.

    Being more on the side of swinging for the fence on this one, I still gave them the benefit of the doubt and initially was okay with the deal.

    HOWEVER, with all of this new information coming out about the funny math in all of this I am more inclined to support opposing this deal and fight for more cuts.

  • Conservative_not_Republican

    Somehow new math has entered Washington. We keep hearing that the Republicans control one-half of one-third of the government. Somehow implying that the Republicans have a little more than one-sixth of the power.

    I checked my Constitution and no bill becomes law without approval of the House of Representatives. Doesn’t that give the House equal power with the Democrats?

    Once it’s passed, it will be pointed out that the budget is a “joint” product of the Congress. It will be bipartisan. It will be a Democrat-Republican deficit.

  • Dave_in_Fla

    Then it has gotten really bad.

    I see no hope here. The Dems and the media have won, the country is toast.

    We might as well shut the whole thing down, bring the troops home and let the world burn. Let the chips fall where they may.

  • melbedewy

    sadly what will happen is that millions who came out in November will quietly slink away or return to their ancestral home of the Jackass party. Result: Democrat landslide next year.
    Next “Captain Caveman” moment=next month’s debt limit increase. “debate”.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD36ZhpHPpE

  • nancylee

    The Republican House leadership is terrified of a government shutdown and the Democrats know it. The Republicans will cave if it comes down to that.

    We need more Tea Party freshmen in 2012, to reinforce the ones that have tried to hold the line. Otherwise, we’re really toast. I have no faith at all in Boehner and his buddies, except maybe for Ryan.

  • Darin_H

    Vote it down, shut it down. I don’t care anymore.

  • basokla

    Yeah. I’m going to be “that” guy.

  • Adjoran

    I definitely blame Boehner that some people don’t know the difference. After all, he’s been teaching America English and math for the last 30 years.

    No, wait . . . he didn’t. So I suppose it falls on me, like everything else. Take an example.

    Barry takes 1000 apples from the orchard. John tells Barry he took too many. Barry gives John 10 apples to put back in the orchard.

    So, how many oranges did John retrieve?

  • e_rowe

    Ron Paul was.
    http://www.texasinsider.org/?p=45553

    Ron Paul filed his exploratory committee paperwork a few days ago. He was the fund raising leader of all candidates in the last quarter. He has consistently polled well ahead of Pawlenty. He’s the father of the tea party movement, which is the source for this recent surge of insistence that the GOP push genuine spending cuts. And he has by far the most consistent conservative voting record of all candidates.