It makes me laugh. If the Tea Party Right won yesterday'
s standoff, which it didn't, the spin from "political intelligentsia" would be that the dominance of the Tea Party Right has just been underscored ... but when the Tea Party Right gets the shaft, as they did in yesterday's outcome, the spin is that yesterday's dust-up is REALLY all about the 2012 negotiations.
Let's remind ourselves that the Tea Party Right's mantra has been "No Compromise". Victory in that context can only be the Tea Party Right getting absolutely everything they demand. All the Social Riders and the 100 Billion dollars in cuts. The Tea Party Right didn't get that.
While I realize there are Debt Ceiling and 2012 Budget fights on the horizon, and although Democrats did accept far more cuts than I feel was necessary, without the discussion of the necessary raising of revenue as well in the Budget package through aggressive taxation on the rich and corporations, it must be remembered that the Tea Party Right set their terms of victory and that was "No Compromise" with their every demand be met. The Tea Party Right didn't get that, so yesterday's agreement was an unambiguous defeat for them.
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