Sorry, not good enough

All you need to know about last weekend’s budget “cut” deal:

The federal debt increased $54.1 billion in the eight days preceding the deal made by President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) and House Speaker John Boehner (R.-Ohio) to cut $38.5 billion in federal spending for the remainder of fiscal year 2011, which runs through September.

Drawing the obvious conclusion, Doug Ross:

That's right: even crediting the $38 billion in cuts, the deficit increased more than $15 billion over the last eight days.

Boehner:  Deal was “as good as we could get.”

Mark Levin:

Boehner’s argument for why conservatives should be satisfied with this 1/30th reduction of the deficit is that the House GOP is too weak to win.

Limbaugh (4/11 show, parapharased):

If you go into a contest with your objective being “as good as we can get,” you will lose.

Rand Paul, voice in the wilderness:

I didn’t come to Washington to settle for $6 billion less in spending than if I had not been here. I suspect most of my freshmen House friends didn’t either.  That’s barely half a day’s spending at our current pace.  This discussion is simply not credible or serious, and unfortunately, it has not been from the beginning, as the House leadership has made clear.

Think about it another way before you vote: The entire budget cut plans skim 3 percent off the top of our historic $1.65 trillion deficit. That means the side of Big Government got 97 percent of what they want.

Boehner:  Next time for sure!

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