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The Spectacle Blog
Later today, the House is set to vote on yet another short-term spending measure intended to avert a government shutdown by extending funding for another three weeks. While a number of House conservatives are expected to vote against it, it’s unclear whether those defections will be enough to kill the bill.
Over at RedState, Erick Erickson slams Republicans for acting like losers, and he notes an ABC poll showing:
Perceived non-cooperation on the budget deficit is one problem for the Republicans in Congress. Seventy-one percent say the GOP is not willing enough to compromise with Obama on the deficit; that even includes 42 percent of Republicans. Fifty-two percent overall also say Obama isn’t willing enough to compromise — still a majority, but a substantially smaller one. (Indeed, 30 percent call Obama “too willing” to make peace; half as many say that about the GOP.)
It follows that on another measure, the public by a 14-point margin says it’s more apt to hold the Republicans than Obama responsible if the budget impasse forces a partial government shutdown. (Then again, three in 10 also say a partial shutdown would be a good thing.)
Last December, Republicans convinced President Obama that they were “hostage takers” and he caved on extending the Bush era tax rates at all levels. Yet from the get go of the budget fight, Republicans have been made it clear that they’re unwilling to shut down the government, fearing that they’d lose the ensuing battle over public opinion as most people not named Newt Gingrich believe the GOP did in 1995/96. So that means that Congressional Democrats and the White House have very little reason to compromise, and if polling continues to look like this, they’ll have even less reason to do so.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 3.15.11 @ 11:05AM
That's completely wrong.
Fight the good fight and win. If the government shuts down few will care so take that bogeyman off the table.
The Republicans would be better off simply to vote not to raise the debt ceiling. That puts the ball in Obama's court.
Dai Alanye | 3.16.11 @ 11:39AM
The reason the Repubs lost in 1995 is that Gingrich gave up too soon---had he stood by his guns he would have won. Clinton was ready to fold from the start but his staff rightly convinced him to hold on, assuming Gingrich would weaken.
Eric Cartman| 3.15.11 @ 11:15AM
Of course the Stupid Party is losing the PR fight. They are unable to stand up and explain the problem using simple English in a straight forward way. Here, I'll help you idiots one more time. Are you listening Republican "leaders"? Here goes:
Walk up to the podium. Take out paper from your jacket's inner pocket. Lay the paper on the podium and drink some water. Grasp paper while clearing your throat and putting on your reading glasses. Look down at the paper and read these words:
"We're broke. Thank you"
Put the paper back in your pocket, take your glasses off and put them in your shirt pocket, exit stage right.
Is that so fucking hard? Stop acting like the weak-kneed jellyfish that gave us Obama.
Cris Worth| 3.15.11 @ 11:32AM
The debt ceiling is the final exam. If the GOP caves game over.
Martin Owens| 3.15.11 @ 12:27PM
"Are Republicans Losing the Budget Battle?"
First things first: were they ever really fighting in it?
Conservative View| 3.15.11 @ 12:38PM
Mr. Rich Dude made his wealth by building a factory. The raw material that comes to the factory is -- taxed. The factory building is -- taxed. The equiptment to make his product inside the building is -- taxed. The fifty or so people he employes are -- taxed. The finished product is -- taxed. The shipping of that product to the retail outlets is -- taxed. The product when sold to a person is -- taxed. All of these taxes originate from Mr. Rich Dude having built up his company. All these taxes add to the cost of the product. What does our government want to do? Why it wants to tax Mr. Rich Dude even more, and raise taxes even higher.
ENOUGH !
If the Republicans fail us now, if they havn't gotten the message that enough is enough, then we do need to start a third party in America. We can no longer afford more taxes, and we can not afford the National Debt. The only realistic solution is to cut government spending by a great deal, not token cuts made for the camera, real cuts that actually hurt.
Do we need OSHA? Do we need to keep funding an educational system that has done nothing but fail us decade after decade? Do we need to keep NPR, or The Arts? Do we need to keep spending and spending and spending? No, we don't.
What we need to do is to stop making Mr. Rich Dude who has generated all this taxed income the enemy, and take a fire axe to the budget. I've had enough, I've had more than enough. To take from those that make to give to those who produce nothing is a failed system.
If the GOP caves, the game as we know it is over. Cris Worth is right. The game will have to change. America can no longer endure what is happening now.
NVA Patriot| 3.15.11 @ 12:49PM
Study Coldwarrior at Redstate - and if you aren't a committee member - change it and change what happens locally; you'd be amazed what a modest effort produces
NVA Patriot| 3.15.11 @ 12:47PM
The Republican need to study Osama Bin laden more. Paraphrasing, when confronted with two choices the weak horse or the strong horse, people choose the strong horse.
The Republicans need to look like the strong horse vice the donkey's. The Donkey's always strive to look like the strong horse - yes they have media help, but people don't believe the media. They are bullies and sham 'strong horses' - challenge them & they fold; revealing themselves
The federal level Republicans have multiple state level examples to follow - Christie, Walker, Kasich, Haley, Palin, etc.
Fighting for the right gains more than you lose in the long run. Watch walker's poll numbers they will rise.
Federal Repubs won't fight which means we will replace them with fighters - look at Cuchinelli - he strikes fear in the heart of the establishment Repubs because he fights; he earned a following and he's winning the PR wars. - yet another example of how to play to win.
Jeff| 3.15.11 @ 1:36PM
Ericson has balanced so many budgets during his city council days ... he's such an expert ...
rage against the world Eric ... the rest of us will work on the problems ...
Dixie Pixie| 3.15.11 @ 1:38PM
To deliberately misquote the song::::
Rainy days, Mondays and the Republican Leadership always bring me down.
With Obama and the Democrats are dead set against any spending cuts, the Republicans are given the choice between shutting down the Federal Government or help spend the money at the current levels.
With the Federal Government spending $222. Billion a month that is a lot of swag to divide between the Parties.
Is it any wonder the Republican Leadership caved with meaningless token and purely symbolic cuts.
CalMark| 3.15.11 @ 2:02PM
Sometimes, you have to do the right thing and let everything else take care of itself.
That's what real leaders do.
Unfortunately, Boehner just wants to be Speaker. He and his "leadership" team are just a bunch of political hack losers.
Grzmlyk| 3.15.11 @ 2:20PM
Once again, the GOP rolls over and sticks its ass in the air.
If we can't get responsible fiscal leadership from an ostensibly conservative party at this juncture, does anyone have any doubt about the fate of this country?
The GOP disgusts me.
NoLib| 3.15.11 @ 2:50PM
There are too many squishes in the Republican party; pundits and politicians alike. What else do we expect?
CateringMelbourne | 12.7.11 @ 4:47AM
Great post!