Analysis: GOP wins cuts without government closure

WASHINGTON (AP) - Less than three months into a tea party-flavored Congress, federal budget cuts amount to $10 billion. Government shutdowns total zero.

That translates into twin early triumphs for Republicans, who are determined to reduce spending and have so far defied attempts by congressional Democrats to cast them as an uncontrollable rabble that would just as soon shutter the government as downsize it.

"We've made it clear that a government shutdown is not an option - period," GOP Rep. Hal Rogers of Kentucky, the House Appropriations Committee chairman, said recently as the House was voting to cut $6 billion of the $10 billion while keeping the government running through April 8.

Not exactly.

The rhetorical threat of a shutdown is a recurring one, put to differing uses by various interests in the struggle over the size and scope of the government. As Congress returns this week from a break, that threat hangs over negotiations on legislation to enact tens of billions and keep the government running through the Sept. 30 end of the current budget

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is it to watch basketball games? I mean, these guys get breaks every three weeks and the breaks last 4 weeks until they take the summer break that lasts 8 weeks only to return for the Thanksgiving break that lasts three weeks when they take 6 weeks off for Christmas break.

Let's cut their salaries to reflect the amount of time spent doing the peoples' work.

The reality is that FEAR is Fantasized Experience Appearing Real. That means that Dems are fantasized experienced that they have to be like Republicans to win the election.

The reality is that this country needs to have distinct political parties. We know that the Republicans stand more: they stand for austerity because they have the believe that wealth flows downward instead of deep analysis of reality.

This country needs a powerful left to point out of the hypocrisy of the right.