House GOP split into two factions on budget deal

Source: Raw Story
By David Ferguson

According to a McClatchy report today, the members of the House GOP have split into two camps on the current budget deal, the flexible and the non-flexible.

On one side are the long-time Republican House members who see the president's current deal, which gives them 80 percent of what they want, as a win that they should take and go home happy. On the other side are newer House members, including freshmen representatives of the Tea Party, for whom the closure of tax loopholes and other revenue generating measures are anathema, who believe that to compromise would be worse than letting the deal (and by extension, the world economy) go down in flames.

Freshman Representative Allen West of Florida wants to take bold action now to slash government funding and reduce the deficit without any new taxes. He says, "I didn't come here to kick the can 10 years down the road."

Whereas long-standing members of the House like California's Dan Lungren, who first came to Congress in 1969, believe that a compromise can be reached and that Congress can still "work".

More at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/07/17/house-gop-split-into-two-factions-on-budget-deal/

raising taxes until the last war is settled. How patriotic it is to pay for wars for national security. Putting the republicans on the defensive to explain why they don't want to pay for two "necessary" wars.

where negotiations must take place.

how to present/sell it, and we're really bad at that. :(

Republicans don't want to curtail military budgets or either of the military actions taking place. They cost money and we don't have the money. Even if cuts to SS, Medicare, and Medicaid are enacted, not enough money to "win" the "wars", which is a big deal to these guys.

Are any of the newbies?

down the road because all he wants to do will have to be revisited because it simply won't work.

for 500 years!