It’s Obvious That Democrats Did All the Compromising on The Budget Agreement
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- It was obvious the two-year agreement was a deficit hawk’s dream based on Speaker of the House John Boehner’s response to the Koch Brothers, Freedom Works, Heritage Action, Americans for Prosperity, and Club For Growth. Boehner accused the teabagger groups of “using our members and using the American people for their own goals. Listen, if you’re for more deficit reduction, you’re for this agreement.” Boehner is right, the budget is all about reducing the already falling deficit and nothing about revenue by closing corporate and the wealthy’s tax loopholes that would have made the austerity budget palatable. Since 2010, the victims of austerity-mad Republicans have never been the richest Americans, and the only difference in this agreement and earlier austerity is it targets a different segment of the population; federal employees.
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What is curious about this agreement is not that Ryan likely pushed hard for a deep austerity-laden budget, but that Murray acquiesced to an economic theory that is proven to ravage an economy during a tepid recovery. Has Murray not been conscious to see the devastation in Europe after three years of austerity, or have Republicans so polluted the minds of Democrats that they think trying the same failed policies over and over again will have a different result because this is America? And where was revenue-producing tax reform by closing loopholes for corporations and the filthy rich? There were no provisions for infrastructure improvements guaranteed to create jobs, and those tiny two-year reductions in the sequester cuts still do not address the devastation over the next nine years the cuts will do their worst damage and kill millions of jobs. It is beyond the pale that Murray could stand there next to Ryan and announce a budget agreement as acceptable giving everything Republicans lusted for two years ago that Senate and House Democrats rejected out of hand as barbaric and totally unacceptable in 2011 and 2012.
This so-called agreement is as unacceptable today as Ryan’s Path to Prosperity was two years ago, and worse, it contains deeper discretionary spending cuts than Democrats railed against then. Of course Republicans love it, it contains no revenue, or tax reform affecting their dirty rich patrons, and it pays for the minute sequester cuts with other entitlement cuts and federal employees’ pensions. If any American depended on Murray, or her Democratic colleagues, to fight for Americans and wage a war on economy devastating austerity, they can put those hope to rest because it is apparent that the negotiators were unconscious during last year’s election. Agreeing to this budget sent a clear message to Americans that Democrats lost the 2012 elections and Republicans won; especially the war on austerity.
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eliminated the threat of the debt ceiling fight. 
in time for the 2016 election when we all know all the crap they left off the table he will certainly put on the table after getting elected. Why give them the illusion of compromise when they sure as hell will do exactly what they want when they get elected. More importantly they can blame Democrats for these crap ass deals since the Democrats are overwhelmingly voting for them and they continue to have a large amount of their house voting base voting against them. We know these are bad budgets, we know we have better ideas... why vote for bad ideas that they can't even convince their house members to vote for?
Setting yourself up to take the blame for bad budgets while helping idiots like Ryan look moderate is dumb politics. Plain and simple dumb politics. It's going to be a real shame when 8 years of Democratic president are over and we never once tried real liberal ideas in our budget. Heck we never even held out and made a case to the public for them. Instead we settled over and over for slightly less bad conservative ideas. Woot rally your base to that 
Quoting your Blue Link:
"The GOP got those drastic, unheard of cuts in 2011 thanks to Obama's blundering."
You are saying that The Sequester" being the "default" is because of Obama's Blundering?
Those are tough words coming from you,
but contain some truth.
Despite his denials, it WAS the White House who proposed The Sequester,
which you now cite as "The Default".
Have you ever read Machiavelli?
Question:
How do you The People to cheer for $5.00/gallon gas?
Answer:
Raise the price to $7.00/gallon for 6 months,
and then drop it back to $5.00/gallon.
The People will CHEER ,
because the propagandists are telling them that $7.00/gallon is The Default!
Machiavelli is smiling from the grave.
You will know them by their WORKS.
...obviously taking lessons from the most awesome negotiator of our time, President Obama...
