(Have you noticed that just like with ObamaCare, it's the Senate calling the shots on everything?)
Senator Reid's cuts are the last spending cuts anyone's going to be seeing for the foreseeable future.
From TheHill.com here:
“The numbers relative to the problem are minimal, but the directional change is huge,” said Rep. Jeb Hensarling (Texas), the chairman of the House Republican Conference.
Yeah, right.
The opposite is more like it. The next fight will be over the 2012 fiscal year budget, and Republicans will die on that hill, after which it's a long way to the election.
Democrats will dig in, having compromised on the Bush tax rates extension, new revenues in the debt ceiling debate, and spending cuts. Their attitude will be that it's time for Republicans to give in on something.
More spending cuts before the election aren't going to happen.
