Get this:
The Senate-passed measure to keep the government operating represents an enormous compromise by progressives to avoid a damaging government shutdown. The Democrat-controlled Senate agreed to temporary funding levels that are far closer to the Republican-controlled House budget plan than they are to the Senate’s own budget for fiscal year 2014. Moreover, this concession is only the latest of many such compromises over the past several years.
The data are from the Office of Management and Budget. In billions of dollars:
1,203 Original Obama budget request
1,185 The 2010 budget
1,095 Paul Ryan's original request
1,066 The debt ceiling compromise of 2011
1,058 2014 Senate budget (less than Paul Ryan's original budget)
986 The 2013 Senate Continuing Resolution
967 The 2014 Ryan Budget
From Center for American Progress
It's even more telling when you see it in a chart. Sorry, I don't know how to embed an image . . .
go to this link.
I am almost blind with anger over the bullshit that spews daily from every media outlet, telling us the Democrats are as much to blame for this shutdown as the Republicans.
THERE IS NO EQUIVALENCY.
Look at the goddam numbers!!!! The Obama administration has backed down and compromised time and again. Now, the administration is willing to accept the Ryan budget . . . and the GOTP demands more surrender.
I do not understand why the President, VP, Pelosi, Reid, and the rest of the Democrats are not trumpeting these numbers as proof of just how much we have backed down.
I just don't understand it.