Who Won the 2011 Budget Compromise?

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... and the American People won since shutting down the government would have disrupted the economy right as we are trying to emerge from a severe economic downturn.
... all the active duty soldiers serving this country won, since the Extreme GOP wanted to hurt military families with their cute blackmail tactics.
Try convincing others with valid arguments rather than using extortion and blackmail. The constant lies for the tea party and Republicans we know now are "Not Intended To Be Factual Statements", but its the only thing you got apparently.

JBuck of KY 10:04PM April 16, 2011

See what article says about tax $$$ paying for abotion...

Bill Hedges of MO 11:52AM April 12, 2011

Your tax dollars do not pay for abortions. Planned Parenthood can't use federal, state, local money for abortions! If you want to be a conscientious objector regarding abortion, then I want to be one with regards to the military, farm subsidies for big Agrofarms, etc.
By the way, the abortion issue is a red herring. The Republicans goal is to outlaw all contraceptives! If you don't want to have a huge family or, better yet, can't afford a large family, than don't vote Republican!
As for the budget deal, I think we all lost!

t of CO 10:37AM April 12, 2011

how can you talk about who won when we as americans all lost. They were 6 months over due in getting just this little part of the budget done. Both parties are to blame along with poor leadership. Democrates had power last Oct when it was due. The republicans haven't done anything since they took power. The president holds private meetings instead of being very public like a true leader would do to get it done. The press won its job in dumbing down the public with its information. We all lost no one won.

Terry of CA 6:49PM April 11, 2011

The middle & lower class get social program cuts - the upper class get tax cuts. Now, just how is anyone but the middle class & lower class having to share in the burden of our debt? They aren't.
The winners are war-mongers, ultra rich, big corporations, big banks, wall street, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya.
The middle class lost. Again & again. Each & every time.
I for one, am getting sick of it.

Jane of OK 5:06PM April 11, 2011

Where I have a problem is when we are cutting programs for our poor but sending gazillions to 3rd world countries to help them. Our money, my money, my tax dollars. I am all for humanitarian efforts but good grief how do we justify cutting the programs for our poor and uneducated and mentally unstable? And how about Medicare? Pay into it our whole life and we are going to have nothing to show for it.

Dana of OK 2:36PM April 11, 2011

I support pro-choice rights unconditionally. But abortion rights end where my wallet begins. Especially if my spiritual belief is that paying for other's abortions is an abomination. All I ask is that your abortion rights are no greater and no more represented than my right to practice my religion to the letter. I should be able to be a consciencious objector to abortion, and I should be free from paying for a system that openly defies my religion. That is why the funds for Planned Parenthood should come from elsewhere, and I hope that one day they will. Afterall, pre-emptively killing unwanted babies born into a low socio-economic status is probably a good deal for the money.

Sveti Balzac of NC 2:22PM April 11, 2011

obviously the victors are the moderate pragmatists in the center. That includes the President and centrist democrats and republicans. Winning does not include the teabaggers, who didn't get anything close to what they were screaming for. Boehner is a winner in the short-term, but he'll be crucified by the 'baggers for not meeting the litmus test of rightwing crazy.

recall walker of WI 1:44PM April 11, 2011

This entire compromise was 100% a failure of the Democrats. This budget was to be passed back in Sept/Oct and guess who was in-charge of the House, Senate, and the WH? But due to the fear of the upcoming election they decided to delay what they were elected to do. Let's see if anyone that is employed can delay the results they were hired to get for 6 months. Do you think they would still have a job? Of course they wouldn't.
Let's see, I will not do my job, but when they hire someone else to get it done I will do everything I can to undermine them getting the results they were hired to do. I wonder how that would go over.
This has been a complete lack of leadership and completely insulting to the American people.

Larry of CA 12:37PM April 11, 2011

It's a joke. Congress is worrying about $35B, big deal! The GOV gave AIG $350B and the car companies over $100B. Anything below $50B is a political decision not fiscal. This budget crap was about abortion. If Republicans fund planned parent hood they are saying the approve of abortions. If they decline they say their against taking care of womens health care issues. Its a lose lose situation. The bottom line is that the federal GOV sould not fund planned parent hood, or AA or any other program that is the direct result of a citizen making a personnel decision to have sex, drink or smoke dope. We have 3.5M people without work, millions of homes are being lost, hundreds of thousands of VETS living in the street. Ou taxes should be used to improve our nation not to fund social problems. The amount of monley spent on AIG could have funded a National Project to rebuild every road, bridge, tunnel, highway, school and national park across the entire 50-states. It would have employed millions of people are put thousands of contractors back to work. The effect would have been felt in every town, store, shop and diner from Seattle to Miami.

Bgibson of NY 12:03PM April 11, 2011