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."
Freerepublic.com: "GOP deceived us about $38 billion??? I was just listening to Mark Levin and he was saying the GOP cut only about $10 billion from the budget because most of it had already been cut or wasn't going to be spent anyhow!"
Ace of Spades: "Suckers: We Were Fooled; Budget Barely Cuts Anything...This is a "cut"? In what sense? This is absolutely horrible. You know what we've got? Another stimulus, but a covert one....My heart is really leaving me on this."
I'm sure there is tons more, but wanted to give folks here the flavor of how the rightwing bloggers are starting to see this deal...
See any others?
Thanks folks pointed me to this from Protien Wisdom: "Obama and Dems are getting the public credit, if you can believe a (meh) CNN poll; and politically, the spin is starting to move to Obama’s having been able to save every key program, while giving up virtually nothing. We’re losers. Obama saved the country. There’s your story. Just as I predicted it would be."
And also to this from Sweetness & Light: "So it is official. Boehner lost in these negotiations....Abortion didn’t get the Republicans any further cuts. All it did was cloud the issue and fire up the Democrat base....If anything, Mr. Boehner taught the Republican freshmen how to cave."