{"id":21408,"date":"2011-07-25T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T17:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=21408"},"modified":"2011-07-25T11:28:40","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T16:28:40","slug":"sound-off-like-you-got-a-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=21408","title":{"rendered":"Sound Off Like You Got A Mandate!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Throuigh the simple expedient of remembering why they were went there<\/em>, and staying with it against a full-court media press, the House GOP majority\u00a0has prevailed on Harry Reid to cave on the budget<\/a>.<\/p>\n

…now that Harry Reid is developing a proposal with $2.7 trillion in cuts and nothing in revenues, it’s a safe bet that it won’t include any tax increases. Which means that whether Republicans realize it or not, they’ve won. The question now is whether they can stop.<\/p>\n

Originally, the Democratic position was that we should simply raise the debt ceiling. Republicans said “no.” There would have to be a deal that reduced the deficit by at least $2.4 trillion — which is the size of the debt ceiling increase needed to get us into 2013.<\/p>\n

Then the Democratic position was that we should raise the debt ceiling through a deal that reduced the deficit by about $2.4 trillion, with $2 trillion of that coming from spending cuts and $400 billion coming from taxes. Republicans said “no.” There would have to be a deal that disavowed taxes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sound familiar to Minnesotans<\/a>?<\/p>\n

If you’re a conservative, neither the Minnesota budget nor the various GOP proposals in Congress are perfect. \u00a0 Neither can <\/em>be; both faced Democrat chief executives, and in Congress a Democrat-controlled Senate. \u00a0Let’s be honest; the GOP at the federal level is doing its darnedest to shake off a decade-old habit of going along to get along with the establishment and its craving for spending. \u00a0 Viewed through a conservative purist’s lens, it’s not good enough; viewed from the perspective of a GOP that, six years ago, was spending money like an Orange County sweet-sixteen with dadders’ platinum card, it’s well-nigh miraculous.<\/p>\n

Ditto the Minnesota GOP. \u00a0Again – the MN budget deal isn’t perfect, and the MNGOP admits it. \u00a0They had to compromise to get past the Governor. \u00a0But the job in Minnesota isn’t just getting a budget passed; it’s reversing five decades of “government first” inertia among the state’s governing class, against a DFL<\/del> phalanx of lavishly-funded special interests who would leave no mound of slime unturned to protect the status quo.<\/p>\n

The GOP went to DC and Saint Paul with a clear mandate; don’t be that <\/em>GOP, the one that played ball with the DFL on a wink and a backslap from 1969 through 1998, the one that went inside-the-beltway native after 1994.<\/p>\n

There’s a lot of work to be done. \u00a0But it’s amazing what you can accomplish when you remember your mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Throuigh the simple expedient of remembering why they were went there, and staying with it against a full-court media press, the House GOP majority\u00a0has prevailed on Harry Reid to cave on the budget. …now that Harry Reid is developing a proposal with $2.7 trillion in cuts and nothing in revenues, it’s a safe bet that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,2,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-minnesota-politics","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21409,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21408\/revisions\/21409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}