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http://www.drhurd.com/index.php/Daily-Dose-of-Reason/Politics-Government/Prin... ....." Perhaps the real victors in this budget battle are the "moderate Republicans" --in other words, those who don't stand for anything other than Democrat -lite. They have in John Boehner a leader they can count on, and they can now form a coalition with Democrats to have a governing majority. Theirs is a Big Government not quite as big as Democrats would like (i.e. infinite in size), but big enough to keep in place all the damage that Big Government has done, right up through and including Obama's first two years in office. In Washington, “moderation” is always the goal. ObamaCare and nationalized automobile/banking industries are the new “moderate.” This is all a far cry from Boehner’s initial bragging that he’d cut government “every single week” once he became Speaker. Half a pail of water thrown off an already sinking ship is nothing to brag about, Mr. Boehner. It's now up to the Tea Party to go back to the polls and keep repealing and replacing Republi
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who mostly agree with Democrats, until America really does become a two -party system. We're clearly not there yet. Democrats and Republicans won the budget battle; but America lost it.
http://www.drhurd.com/index.php/Daily-Dose-of-Reason/Politics-Government/Prin... ....." Perhaps the real victors in this budget battle are the "moderate Republicans" --in other words, those who don't stand for anything other than Democrat -lite. They have in John Boehner a leader they can count on, and they can now form a coalition with Democrats to have a governing majority. Theirs is a Big Government not quite as big as Democrats would like (i.e. infinite in size), but big enough to keep in place all the damage that Big Government has done, right up through and including Obama's first two years in office. In Washington, “moderation” is always the goal. ObamaCare and nationalized automobile/banking industries are the new “moderate.” This is all a far cry from Boehner’s initial bragging that he’d cut government “every single week” once he became Speaker. Half a pail of water thrown off an already sinking ship is nothing to brag about, Mr. Boehner. It's now up to the Tea Party to go back to the polls and keep repealing and replacing Republi
cans
who mostly agree with Democrats, until America really does become a two -party system. We're clearly not there yet. Democrats and Republicans won the budget battle; but America lost it.
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