Time to Resist the Republicans’ War on Government - Campaign for America's Future
http://ourfuture.org/20131023/time-to-resist-the-republicans-war-on-government
Democrats in the White House are confronted with a dilemma. On the one hand, the clocks ticking on their temporary budget deal with the Republicans. If it runs out and theres no new agreement, we run the risk of a default and the government could shut down again. But the need to negotiate places them in a position where they might appear to legitimize the GOPs extreme positions, immortalized in a series of Republican budgets.
In the short term, Democrats need to negotiate. But in the longer term, we urgently need a real debate about the role of government in this country a debate which highlights the ever widening gulf in values between the Republican Party, as reflected in its budgets, and the American people.
It would be tragic if Democrats won a battle, but the nation continued to lose a war.
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This would be a good time to remember ONeills legacy. He never hesitated to speak eloquently and forcefully for the role of government in peoples lives even while negotiating with Republicans determined to do away with government altogether.
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