Politico: Winners and losers in the showdown

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Winners and losers in the showdown

By MEREDITH SHINER

The Winners

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Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio)

Boehner may have been outnumbered by Democrats at the table 2-to-1, but by the way the final deal shaped up, you wouldn't know it. The Speaker got $38.5 billion dollars in cuts, including $2 billion in a short-term stopgap measure running through Thursday as staffers put the finishing touches on his long-term deal. Boehner also forced the Senate to hold votes on Title X family planning funds and on defunding President Obama's health care reform law. And then there's the DC school vouchers program — a pet cause of the speaker — which was reinstated in the deal.

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Planned Parenthood

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Losers

Washington, D.C.

The District always seems to be in a precarious position, with the local government often financially beholden to the whims of Congress. Negotiated into the final spending deal are two D.C.-related provisions and more may still be added this week. One provision bans the District from spending its own funds on abortion procedures for low-income women. Another measure that hasn’t been finalized would prohibit the city from using its own money for needle-exchange programs. And then there’s Boehner’s school voucher program, which gives low-income D.C. students federal funds to attend private schools. The measure is opposed by D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray and D.C.’s Rep. Eleanor Holmes-Norton, who can only vote in committee. Regardless of whether the policies are favorable to D.C. residents, locals will have to accept them.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi

It was just a year ago that Pelosi, not Boehner, was the force at the negotiating table pushing Obama to enact historic health care and financial reform legislation. This time around she was barely a player. Friday night, Pelosi released a statement that could be characterized as lukewarm at best. She congratulated Obama and Reid, but made no mention of Boehner.

“President Obama and Leader Reid should be commended for their leadership and perseverance to keep the government open,” Pelosi said Friday. “House Democrats look forward to reviewing the components of the final funding measure. The American people’s top priority is creating jobs, and we will continue to measure every proposal by whether it creates jobs, strengthens the middle class and responsibly reduces the deficit.”

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[ProSense]

1. No comment? n/t

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2. The Obama Limbo

How low can we go, while patting ourselves on the back?

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3. No -Politico is a right wing rag

Fugg them

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4. The American people are the losers.

And the rich, who are un-American, are the winners.

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5. Meredith Shiner is a hack.

The votes in the Senate are no victory for Boehner as they will achieve nothing.
He lost almost all of his precious riders.

He came up far short of the 61 billion he was trying to cut.

His base is up in arms about this deal.

He is far from a winner.