https://redstate.com/erick/2012/01/18/again-conservatives-were-right/feed/Conservative News & Politicsen-usFri, 12 Jun 2026 03:23:21 -0400<![CDATA[On and on it goes. Republicans in Congress cut deals with Democrats. The Republicans&#8217; favorite reporters and pundits tell us just how awesome those deals are. Then those deals blow up in our faces.More tragically, then the same Republican leaders who negotiated those deals go back and negotiate the next deals and the same reporters and pundits at the same publications who told the last ones were so awesome tell us these are so awesome and then these deals too blow up in our faces. Conservatives always raise the alarm. The Republicans always run to the usual suspects to spin their way out of the mess.On Facebook yesterday, Senator Jim DeMint noted this folly. Republicans were supposed to have big wins on the debt ceiling and on the Keystone XL Pipeline. They told us they had played the Democrats. Instead, we played ourselves.From Senator DeMint:]]>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:36:47 -0500<![CDATA[Erick Erickson]]>https://redstate.com/erick/2012/01/18/again-conservatives-were-right-n41884