Red Bloggers: "It is becoming more and more clear that Republicans got played in the budget deal."

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Red Bloggers: "It is becoming more and more clear that Republicans got played in the budget deal."

by timmyc

FYI: Just to show the new tone starting to take hold in the rightwing blogger community over the recent Budget deal.

From Erik Erikson at RedState: "It is becoming more and more clear that Republicans got played in the budget deal."

From HotAir: "All of this makes perfect sense from the Democrats’ perspective. It’s win/win....So the specifics make this an obviously good deal for Democrats — but what were Boehner and his deputies thinking in signing off on it?"

Townhall.com "National Review editor Rich Lowry is beginning to wonder if Republicans got "punked" during last week's CR negotiations. He says the vaunted 2011 budget deal is looking "worse and worse" by the minute."

National Review Online: "Friday’s much-heralded budget deal is a pyrrhic victory for deficit hawks....Obama was able to preserve many, if not most, of his pet projects, like Pell Grants, Planned Parenthood funding, and Americorps. It’s not clear who should be licking their wounds today."

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[Gman]

1. LOL! Sounds like DU!

but in reverse!

[JoePhilly]

7. +1, My first thought as well.

[dkf]

2. They are pissed just because they didn't want Obama to have anything he values?

God they are such babies.

So freaking unserious...it's pathetic.

[unblock]

3. republican leaders just wanted a way out of the mess

the extremos of their own party had them in a bind. they had to have a showdown but any remotely protracted shutdown would have been a political disaster for them just like it was for gingrich. the republican leadership doesn't really care about the deficit anyway, they just use that rhetoric to shut down any democratic proposal. and to the extent they DO care about the deficit, they want to fight about it during normal budget negotiations, not during they crazy brinksmanship times of deficit ceilings and continuing resolutions.

republican leaders got what they wanted, which was out of this mess with something they could tout as an interim victory.

the republican rank-and-file can be disappointed; that's hardly a problem for the republican leadership, it just empowers them to be more aggressive during the rest of the negotiations, e.g., for fy2012.

[Tarheel_Dem]

4. That's not the narrative in the leftosphere. It's absolutely amazing that any

real legislation ever gets out of Congress. With bloggers on both sides becoming increasingly ideological and hateful, moderate voices are drowned out. Scorekeeping has replaced pragmatism, and compromise (what real adults do) has become "caving". What a world.

[tanyev]

5. Ha ha!

[Logical]

6. Both side are claiming they lost so they can control the next debate. n-t