No Shutdown, But a Lot of Sellouts

[unhappycamper]

No Shutdown, But a Lot of Sellouts
by John Nichols
Published on Saturday, April 9, 2011 by The Nation

If you had asked Franklin Roosevelt or Harry Truman or John Kennedy or Lyndon Johnson or Jimmy Carter or even Bill Clinton what Democrats would defend in a fight over the future of government, there's no real question that funding for housing, public transportation, community development programs and safe air travel would be high on the list.

Yet, in order to achieve the Friday night deal that averted a government shutdiown -- for a week and, potentially, longer if an anticipated agreement is cobbled together and agreed to -- all of those programs took serious hits.

The arrangement worked out Friday night averted the threatened shutdown with a two-step process. First, the House and Senate passed a one-week spending bill that addressed the immediate threat. That should give Congress and the White House time to finalize a fiscal 2011 spending deal -- on which they have agreed in principle -- before an April 15 deadline.

So who won the standoff? President Obama says the deal is good for the future, and that might make some Democrats think that he and the Democrats prevailed.

They didn't.

[xchrom]

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[KG]

2. oh, c'mon. you're making a mountain out of a molehill!

i'm sure someone will post some blue links to back me up... :P

[bvar22]

3. The Republicans & Democrats "have agreed in principle".

They have agreed that RICH people deserve MORE money,
and that The Working Class & The Poor should PAY for it.




Who will STAND UP and FIGHT for THIS American Majority?
Platitudes, Rhetoric, Empty Promises, and Excuses are meaningless now.

"By their WORKS you will know them,"
And by their WORKS they will be held accountable.