CONSERVATIVE REVIEWS ARE
IN ON RYAN’S BUDGET DEAL: IT SUCKS!
The new
budget deal introduced on Tuesday with much fanfare by Rep. Paul Ryan (R) and liberal Sen. Patty Murray (D) landed with a dead-cat
thud among fiscal conservatives…
“The
result of this budget conference is not acceptable to fiscal conservatives,”
declares Matt Kibbe of Freedom Works.
“The proposed plan would increase spending $63 billion above the budget caps
set by Budget Control Act of 2011—the only actual spending control achieved by
Congress under the Obama Administration. The deal claims to offset these costs
by increasing various fees, and by making small reforms to government pensions.
These new fees aren’t being used to shrink government or balance the budget;
they’re simply a mask to help hide the breaching of the budget caps.”
“The
solution is not to walk away from progress and add over $60 billion in spending
over the next two years,” writes Al
Cardenas, chairman of the American Conservative Union. “We are not
impressed by the cost cutting gimmicks and urge Members of Congress to tell the
Budget Conference to get back to work!"
“This
proposal swaps debt reduction today and next year, for the dubious promise of
debt reduction a decade from now,” said Club for Growth President Chris Chocola. “All Republicans have to
do is nothing, and they will retain the rather modest budget savings that comes
from the sequester. Apparently, there are some Republicans who don’t have the
stomach for even relatively small spending reductions that are devoid of
budgetary smoke and mirrors.”
"Heritage
Action cannot support a budget deal that would increase spending in the
near-term for promises of woefully inadequate long-term reductions," the
organization said in a statement. "While
imperfect, the sequester has proven to be an effective tool in forcing Congress
to reduce discretionary spending, and a gimmicky, spend-now-cut-later deal will
take our nation in the wrong direction."
Sen. Rand Paul: “I
think it's a mistake to trade sequester cuts now for the promise of cuts later. I cannot support a budget deal that raises
taxes, never balances and doesn't reduce our nation's $17.3 trillion debt.”
Sen. Marco Rubio: “We
need a government with less debt and an economy with more good paying jobs, and
this budget fails to accomplish both goals, making it harder for more Americans
to achieve the American dream. Instead,
this budget continues Washington’s irresponsible budgeting decisions by
spending more money than the government takes in and placing additional
financial burdens on everyday Americans.”
Sen. Tom Coburn: “I
can’t support this deal.”
Rep. Raul Labrador: “It's
really a terrible plan."
Senate
Banking Committee Ranking Member Mike
Crapo: “It doesn’t appear to be something I will likely support. It’s pretty light on entitlement reform and
the entitlement reform that’s done is not structural. It doesn’t do anything to
actually change or fix that.”
“This
budget deal creates a faux peace in Washington, D.C., while burdening taxpayers
by sweeping the impending fiscal crisis under the rug," Amy Kremer, chairwoman of the Tea Party
Express, said in a statement. "If the Sequestration was a baby step
forward, this is a baby step backward.”
“This
is a suicide mission for the Republicans,” Todd
Cefaratti of TheTeaParty.net told the Daily Caller. “After last year’s epic
New Year’s Eve cave, Republicans are now contemplating another. They’ve fallen
for the media spin that conservatives trying to cut spending are the problem in
Washington.”
“If
this deal is enacted, a precedent will have been set, and the big spenders in
both parties will sadly gain even more clout going into future budget
negotiations,” writes Chris Edwards
of the Cato Institute. “Blowing through existing budget caps by $45 billion
this year could set the stage for spending hundreds of billions of dollars more
over the coming decade.”
"The
deals floating around the smoke filled rooms of Capital Hill are intended to
get politicians past the next election; none of them actually solves the real
crisis,” writes Richard Viguerie of
Conservative HQ. “Capitol Hill Republican establishment leaders are making a
major blunder if they think Tea Party and grassroots conservative activists
don’t understand the difference between a deal to get them past the next
election and a solution to the spending crisis.”
“We
will hold members accountable, Republican and Democrat, if they go forward and
vote to raise spending above sequester levels,” said Tim Phillips, president of Americans for Prosperity, in a New York
Times interview.
Meanwhile,
Business Insider reports that “House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) snapped at conservative groups that have come
out in opposition to the budget deal," calling their opposition “ridiculous.”
In
response to Boehner’s slam, the Club for Growth issued the following statement…
“We
stand with Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Tom Coburn, Rand Paul, members of the
Republican Study Committee and every other fiscal conservative who opposes the
Ryan-Murray deal. After carefully
reviewing the budget deal…we determined that it would increase the size of
government. We support pro-growth proposals when they are considered by
Congress. In our evaluation, this isn’t one of those.”
This
one is gonna be ugly. Real ugly.
FAMOUS LAST WORDS
“If
Paul Ryan were a Peanuts character, he'd be the guy who pulls the football out
of the way just as he himself is about to kick it." - RedState's Erick Erickson
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