@Maj. Bill Martin
I know the Pub talking point is wait until 2025 and give us control of the House, Senate and White House. I place no stock in that position.
It's not a "refrain". It's a 100% accurate recognition of political realities that aren't changing before the next round of elections. We can
wish it was different, or pretend that "courage" is enough, but it isn't. It is a raw numbers game that we are seeing play out that way right before our ours. I don't see how it is even arguable.
If the House won't break the CR cycle now why do we think they will do it later.
Because right now, you don't have anything close to the number of votes necessary to support a long holdout. With a bigger margin, you might. Again, I don't see how that is arguable as a matter of simple math.
Anybody remember the refrain about how they would get rid of obamacare?
Sure. To pass actual legislation, you need control of both houses of Congress and the Presidency. That's a prerequisite, but it doesn't guarantee success. It got sunk by one vote - McCain's.
You guys are talking about what you want to happen, or what you believe is necessary. I'm just talking the reality of having enough votes. And right now, we don't. Changing Speakers didn't change that vote count one bit, and might have actually made it worse by destroying any sense of conference solidarity.
Probably the best we can hope for is a 20-30 year cycle of economic stagnation similar to what Japan has been experiencing.
I agree.
My point all along has been that even if things are bad right now, they are going to continue to get worse if we can't get more control of Congress in 2025. Smartest course we had was to go with that 8% cuts to the CR, then focus on the best
achievable goals possie until the next election.
Instead, we've done the political equivalent of a Japanese banzai suicide attack - an all-out insistence on immediate victory no matter the likelihood of success, and no matter the negative repercussions.
I just think that's dumb.
