No team plays a perfect season and no party wins everything in a negotiation. (Sorry....I should add that the Miami Dolphins were perfect in 1973, 14-0 during the season and 3-0 on their way to a Super Bowl ring!)
However, Speaker Boehner won a lot on Friday night:
1) He prevented a shutdown. It would have been a nightmare to give the media the excuse to run interviews with tormented tourists who can't get into The Washington Monument or the young military wife in Ft Hood who won't get a paycheck.
Instead, the government goes on and we can now focus on the real battle, the upcoming debt ceiling debate & the 2012 budget.
"He also forced Harry Reid and Barack Obama to re-open the DC school voucher program, a small but important pushback on educational reform.
He didn't get the $100 billion in cuts he promised or the $61 billion the House passed, but the House isn't going to get
everything it wants in the 112th Session of Congress, either.
everything it wants in the 112th Session of Congress, either.
He got a budget passed on his terms — cuts — which is more than can be said for …"
2) Pres BO was reduced to the guy who couldn't get his own party to pass a budget last September 30th.
What do you call a president who can't get his congressional majority to pass a budget?
You call him a "weak leader" and more and more polls are confirming that the country is not impressed with a president who does not understand that governing is making decisions rather than just reading "hope and change" speeches from the teleprompter.
In the end, Speaker Boehner got budget cuts and set the table for "the mother of all budget battles" coming up this summer.
What's next?
Speaker Boehner and the GOP majority should pass the Ryan proposal calling for trillions of dollars in reductions & entitlement reforms.
Let Pres BO veto that budget.
Let Pres BO, and the Senate Dems running for reelection in 2012, defend $300 million for Planned Parenthood or money for NPR.
Speaker Boehner did well but the big one is just around the corner.
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