Thanks to Republicans, we're going to knock down this year's 1.65 trillion dollar deficit .... to 1.646 trillion.

Boehner must go. McConnell must go.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...07032.html

Completely disgraceful. They let the fear of a 1995 repeat keep them from doing what they were sent there to do.

The only cuts in this thing are ones Obama already wanted? They just caved completely in this.

Resounding victory for Obama and the Democrats. Republicans lack of spine makes me want to puke.

This CR only goes to March 18th.

Don't abandon all hope just quite yet.

(02-27-2011 05:33 PM)Ninerfan1 Wrote:  They let the fear of a 1995 repeat keep them from doing what they were sent there to do.

I don't think -- both for policy reasons and political reasons -- that the GOP should be seeking a shut-down. But if a shut-down happens, there are plenty of reasons to think that it won't be perceived by the public the way the 95-96 shutdowns were perceived. Here's one: The liberal first-tier and second-tier newspapers (NY Times, Wash Post, LA Times, Boston Globe, Atlanta Constitution, St. Pete Times, etc.) have greatly waned in their influence. Their pro-Democrat propaganda reaches a much smaller % of the population than it did 15 years ago. The same goes for the pro-Democrat magazines, TIME and Newsweek. Here's another reason: Fox News Channel did not exist at the last go-around, and the Internet existed but was utilized by a small fraction of the people who utilize it now. Plus, the mainstream TV-news organizations (CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN) have (as a group) been repeatedly discredited and increasingly ignored in recent years. The TV-news monopoly of people like Walter Cronkite and Leslie Stahl and Katie Couric and Dan Rather and Bryant Gumbel is gone forever. The combined force of all these changes in the news-media industry over the last 15 years assures that a "shut-down", if one occurs, will not play out the way the last ones did during the Clinton years.