It’s Obamacare, Stupid:

Obamacare is not an extraneous issue to the budget fight. It is the fight.

Many establishment conservatives are agog with joy over the grand sellout of a budget deal.  They feel that John Boehner was the real winner in the debate.  The problem is that they are all focusing on the dollar amount of the discretionary spending cuts.  They are forgetting the 800-pound gorilla in the room; Obamacare.  The cost of O-care to our economy, liberty, consumer choice, and health care system is incalculable; certainly ions more than the diminutive $38 billion (really $26 billion in new cuts) in discretionary cuts that were secured by Boehner.

The Wall Street Journal penned a disingenuous op-ed lauding the spending deal as the ” first victory for the Tea Party.”  They further admonished conservatives for criticizing the deal.   Here is what they had to say:

“Republicans also showed they are able to make the compromises required to govern. We realize that “governing” can often be an excuse for incumbent self-interest. But this early show of political maturity will demonstrate to independents that the freshmen and tea party Republicans they elected in November aren’t the yahoos of media lore. A government shutdown over a spending difference of $7 billion and some policy riders would have made the GOP look reckless for little return….

Now the battle moves to the debt ceiling increase and Paul Ryan’s new 2012 budget later this year, and there are lessons from this fight to keep in mind.One is to focus on spending and budget issues, not extraneous policy fights.” (emphasis added)

Let’s get this straight.  Republicans won their biggest electoral victory in 70 years over the issue of Obamacare, yet it is merely an “extraneous policy fight” to the Journal’s editors?  Republicans pledged to defund Obamacare and now they are admitting that they will never employ any meaningful tactic to force the issue.  In fact, they voted to extend an Obamacare program in March.

Read more here: http://www.redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2011/04/11/its-obamacare-stupid/