1. Shut the guvermint down and blame it on the Democrats.
2. Cut spending on the backs of Americans with little or no means and blame it on the Democrats.
3. Compromise with the Democrats and lose the Tea Party support.
Which one will they chose?
If they close down the guvermint a lot of their Tea Party supporters won't get their Social Security checks, plus we see how well shutting down the Guvermint worked for Newt and Company.
It must be so nice to live in the rarified, privileged airs inside the Beltway, where you are untouched by those little things like unemployment, dependence on government assistance, Social Security, the Veteran's Administration or anything else. Because as a member of the Villager Cocktail Circuit, it's possible to talk about the possible government shutdown not as the impact it will have on very real people, but as who wins the political propaganda spin wars.
If they cut spending on the backs of Americans with little or no means their Tea Party supporters will realize they are Americans with little or no means. Maybe they need to suffer the consequences of voting against their self interest. If they think things are bad now, just wait until medicare is privatized.
The plan would essentially end Medicare, which now pays most of the health-care bills for 48 million elderly and disabled Americans, as a program that directly pays those bills. Mr. Ryan and other conservatives say this is necessary because of the program's soaring costs. Medicare cost $396.5 billion in 2010 and is projected to rise to $502.8 billion in 2016. At that pace, spending on the program would have doubled between 2002 and 2016.
If they compromise with the Democrats they can kiss their Tea Party support bye bye.
Yep the days of fence straddling are over, so called moderates need to pi$$ or get off the pot.
Political moderates and on-the-fencers have had it easy up to now on budget issues. They could condemn “both sides” and insist on the need for “courage” in tackling the deficit.
Yep, the TeaPublicans are caught between Barack and a hard place.
From the outset, my goal has been to significantly cut our domestic spending but, at the same time, make sure we’re making key investments in things like education, infrastructure, innovation -- the things that are going to help us win the future..
And over the course of the last several months, we have identified areas where we can make substantial cuts. In fact, what we’ve been able to do is to present to the House Republicans a budget framework that would cut the same amount of spending as Speaker Boehner and Chairman Rogers originally proposed -- their original proposal for how much would be cut.
And several weeks ago, there were discussions between the White House and Speaker Boehner’s office in which we said, let’s start negotiating off of that number, $73 billion. We are now closer than we have ever been to getting an agreement. There’s no reason why we should not get an agreement. As I said before, we have now matched the number that the Speaker originally sought.
The only question is whether politics or ideology are going to get in the way of preventing a government shutdown. Now, what does this potentially mean for the American people? At a time when the economy is just beginning to grow, where we’re just starting to see a pickup in employment, the last thing we need is a disruption that’s caused by a government shutdown. Not to mention all the people who depend on government services, whether you’re a veteran or you’re somebody who’s trying to get a passport or you’re planning to visit one of the national monuments or you’re a business leader who’s trying to get a small business loan. You don’t want delays, you don’t want disruptions just because of usual politics in Washington
Which one will they chose?
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