Topic: No government shut down for now

[hemm]

Double edged sword for me. I am glad on one hand that the shut down didn't happen for one very simple selfish reason. My Son is in the Army. He will get paid. He earned it. I know he did, and will for the next # number of years in ways he hasn't even thought of yet.

A blank check payable to the free people of the United States of America up to and including death.

That deserves a MOTHERFVUCKING PAYCHECK.

The other edge is I was in during the last shutdown........after that we didn't have sh!t for training money. It got cut. Thanks that time to Monica Lewinsky's boyfriend's admin.

All they did here was put a tiny band-aid on a sucking chest wound.

I am now an Independent. Fvck all the parties. I am done with this sh!t.

I'm outta here before I blow a blood vessel.

[Predator Don]

Dang, no shutdown. I was counting on the 3.5 billion in savings a day.

Can someone cut me a crumb of pie?

[Libertas]

$39B?

People are applauding a lousy $39B?

That better be multiplied by a factor of 50 or people are just whistling past the graveyard!

 

[IronDioPriest]

http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/04/09/who-won-shutdown-showdown-it-wasnt-even-close

This is worth a read. I don't have the patience to read the whole thing on tiny dumbphone screen but it looks like the pubbies got a lot more than the diminished spending cuts that have us so angry. I wanted deeper cuts, and still think they shouldve driven harder, but if some of the other things they got have any teeth, they'll go a bit of the way toward assuaging some of the disappointment.

[John Florida]

http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/04/09/who-won-shutdown-showdown-it-wasnt-even-close

This is worth a read. I don't have the patience to read the whole thing on tiny dumbphone screen but it looks like the pubbies got a lot more than the diminished spending cuts that have us so angry. I wanted deeper cuts, and still think they shouldve driven harder, but if some of the other things they got have any teeth, they'll go a bit of the way toward assuaging some of the disappointment.

 Well they took a piece out of health care by not giving the IRS any more money towards it.That's 1500 less emplyees.

[charlesoakwood]

There were no votes on defunding the EPA or PBS and NPR. Democrats fought for and won a $2 billion cut from the Department of Defense, knocking the military appropriation for the rest of the year down to $513 billion.

But the GOP had to be able to see this as a win in the end, because it is puny compared to what they want to do next.

Yes, "But the GOP had to be able to see this as a win...", it was a loss and we all know it.  "Past is prelude" and this loss is prelude to the next one.  Watch for Boehner and Cantor to undermine Ryan.  ...insert "suckerfish.img" here...

[Sectionhand]

Kamikazees died for the Emperor and they still lost the war . A shutdown would have been suicide for the Republicans in 2012 and the MSM and Stymies gang know it and would have reaped the benefit . This was a tactical draw that didn't make either side look particularly good . The Dems will try it again when the 2012 budget negotiations come . That's when the real nut-cutting starts and they try to lay the same trap all over again . This is all about the 2012 elections because the Democrats don't give a rat's ass about spending cuts and don't kid yourselves otherwise . The Republican Party better start learning some Public Relations tricks because they sure as hell can't count on the media ( with the exception of Fox News ) to tell the truth about this crap .