Politicususa: How Obama Beat The Republicans At Government Shutdown Chicken

[dennis4868]

The right started trying to spin their last second backing off of a government shutdown last night as victory, but this could not be any further from reality. The GOP controlled House passed a bill that called for $60 billion in cuts, but they only got $38 billion. The Republicans also had to drop every single budget rider relating to the EPA, the funding of NPR and Planned Parenthood. They got nothing.

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Boehner won big? Really? Let’s see, he ended up settling for a number that was originally negotiated over two weeks ago. In all these additional days of negotiations, he gained nothing. The $38 billion in cuts he did here are peanuts in budgetary terms. The President’s 2012 federal budget proposal is $3.7 trillion dollars, so Boehner managed to shave off 1/100th of the federal budget. The cuts are chump change that amount to throwing an ice-cube into the ocean.

Politically Boehner and the House Republican leadership became big losers when they agreed to drop all of the funding and regulatory riders involving the EPA, Planned Parenthood, and NPR from the bill. The Tea Party and social conservatives brought up the funding for Planned Parenthood as a way to further their crusade against abortion, an issue which is the lifeblood of much of conservative activism, but Boehner and the GOP leadership had no problem with throwing them under the bus.

The entire article is here...http://www.politicususa.com/en/obama-republican-shutdown

[ReturnoftheDjedi]

1. Boehner just ran his dad's tractor off into a ditch

Obama just cut footloose. :)

[bluestateguy]

2. I really don't know what is with the media (and DU) obsession with declaring winners and losers

DU is playing along with the same corporate drive by media bullshit that we all claim to hate.

[tblue]

3. So this is a win for Obama? Wow! The bar is low.

If you're a kid who now will be denied Head Start or a Pell grant, it's not any kind of a win.

[dennis4868]

4. Sure it is....

Tea Party wanted 80-90 billions intax cuts and wanted all the riders included in the final agreement, both did not happen, not by a long shot....

[johnaries]

6. Pell Grants and Head Start weren't cut. They were protected.

and if you're referring to Bernie Sanders press release, he said that cuts were made to the SAME CATEGORY as Pell Grants and Head Start - not to the programs themselves.

[Exilednight]

8. Pell grant money was cut overall, they just left intact the maximum amount of what

a person can receive. It just means that less people will receive the same amount of money that was available to them.

[Exilednight]

7. The bar is set so low, my four year old niece could hurdle it and be fairly

certain of clearing it.

[Mass]

5. LOL. Obama proposed a budget with $40 billion increase, he gets $38 billion decrease. Not sure how

you can say he won anything (or anybody else for the matter). We were screwed.
The only thing that happened is that the GOP leasership negotiated with the Tea Party and they ended up where Boehner started (in fact, a little lower as Boehner initial proposal was $32 billion). May be we need to make Boehner our main negotiator, because nobody in our camp seemed to be involved.