Warning: This is mostly ranting and democrat bashing! (oh the hypocrisy)
Obama didn't want any revenue, he just let it die"
Fact: Revenue a.k.a tax increases would have died in the House again and again, and you pounding your fist screaming "but I really wanted it" wouldn't make that less true. So there was no chance for revenue unless you wanted the President to play chicken with the debt ceiling like the GOP.
Oh but wait, he's a secret GOP anyway!
People here can try and convince themselves that the GOP would have taken the bulk of the blame for a default, but the long-term repercussions of such a thing would have haunted democrats for years to come, because the party in charge always takes the bulk of blame.
This deal isn't bad at all. Really, it isn't. There is a lot of GREAT DIARIES that explain this point more eloquently than I can. In a nutshell: it triggers defense cuts, essentially leaves SS and Medicare off the table and the cuts it does recommend are to part D and are minimal. The debt issue is off the table til 2013 and the cuts have to be made in 4 months so there isn't a hostage taking on the tax cuts like many here have said. I really can't be mad at this.
Many of you should take a stroll to Redstate or Hotair. They are screaming the same things you are about their side. I thought dems were level-headed and really did understand governing, but being on Dailykos I have found most here want democrats who govern like the GOP.
"oh it's disgusting, dangerous, stupid, etc what they are doing"
But it seems you'd be fine if our side used those same techniques.
"well at least we would win".
Then, might I suggest you become a rabid sports fan because obviously you are ignorant to politics. Regardless of what anyone thinks, this country, as a whole, is left on some things and right on others and can be persuaded to sway the way the wind blows.
To be honest if half of you just stopped bitching long enough to read this bill it would occur to you that dems set themselves up for a great fight in 4 months.
"but the GOP got everything they wanted"
Every conservative site is sure not looking at this as a victory but they aren't nearly as harsh as you guys are to their own party, and that's why they get more of what they want.
They don't whine as much. Stop playing the victim and always looking at what you didn't get and instead let's rally behind what we did get and fight for more. Stop sulking in the corner like a whiny 6 year-old or you will be treated as one.
A lot of the country thinks that dems can't be pleased EVER!
and it seems as if they can't unless it is absolutely everything they wanted and nothing they didn't want.
Note: sorry for the bad grammar, spelling, and capitalization but it's on a phone and in a hurry. I just couldn't hold this in much longer.
Update: This diary had to be corrected. And I wanted to add links to 2 great diaries that said what I wanted to say only better.
With democrats like these, who needs republicans? - This is a very common phrase that can be taken in different ways.