Mark Tapscott and David Fredosso captured some of the frustration among conservatives about the budget deal, and for more disappointment, check out Red State. The problem with this debate is that you cannot prove a negative, so it’s much easier for somebody to argue that if House Speaker John Boehner, R-Oh., were willing to let the government shut down, that he could have gotten a better deal, then it is to celebrate a deal that cuts spending by little more than a rounding error relative to the overall budget. But I have yet to read or hear a criticism that outlined a realistic scenario under which Obama would agree to everything Republicans proposed, let alone a scenario in which lawmakers made a major dent in the debt in a six-month budget.
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