This is the most succinct summary of what’s going on regarding the budget I’ve seen…
The question is: Is the Republican Leadership ready to act like adults and make a deal or are they going to play to their loud, angry and ignorant base…
I still fear most of these cuts are going to hurt the economy in the long run.
It can’t be said often enough: You do not drastically cut the budget when the recovery is this fragile. You need to focus on growing jobs…
Ask Herbert Hoover’s ghost- or FDR’s….
From DailyKos:
To recap, the issue here is that tea party Republicans in the House have made it clear they will not support any funding bill that does not include provisions such as a repeal of the health care reform law and a ban on family planning funding. Obviously, those are poison pill provisions; the Senate wouldn’t pass them, and even if it did, President Obama wouldn’t sign them into law.
Because the most recent stop-gap funding measure, which will keep government open until April 8, did not include those provisions, 54 tea-party Republicans voted against it in the House, forcing the GOP to rely on Democratic votes to prevent a government shutdown. (They needed 32, but got 85.)
Unless tea-party Republicans flip-flop, John Boehner is going to need Democratic votes to pass a funding bill that can pass the Senate and get President Obama’s signature, and Hoyer’s comments were designed to make it clear to Boehner that Democrats are ready and willing to achieve a bipartisan compromise to keep the country moving forward.
Boehner is facing enormous pressure from his party’s right-flank to refuse the Democratic offer for cooperation, even though that would force a government shutdown. Polls show that tea-party supporters are losing confidence in Congressional Republicans on budget issues and by significant margins favor a government shutdown. But while a majority of Boehner’s political base says they favor shutting down government for several weeks, nearly three-quarters of Americans say such a shutdown would be a bad thing.
So John Boehner needs to choose between satisfying his the extreme right of his party, or forging a compromise with Democrats to move forward. The choice is his. Whether or not we have a government shutdown is entirely up to him.
via Daily Kos: Democrats offer Boehner a lifeline to avoid tea party-forced shutdown.
Lost in the 21st Century 
Please! Liberals offer cooperation? America would be likely to cooperation from the Taliban or Al-Qaeda. A Liberals’ idea of cooperation is do it their way or be blamed for their failings as humans.
If the government is shutdown it’s because of the Liberals, both in DC and those supporting them and do so hope that Americans make them pay for it one way or another – either by finally realizing that an American, as opposed to the useless eaters living off government hand-outs, don’t need much federal government, by removing the office at the polls, or by finally exterminating them and all of their followers.
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