You Are of No Use to Us, Just to Them - To them Compromise is Capitulation, The Senate GOP’s Surrender

Faux press adulation must play with Senator's minds

They have lost all sense of why they are there.
They couldn't care less about our rights as individuals, just their continuation as media-queen Senators.
Forget that Obamacare is about caring for Obama, not America. That is why he is so intransigent about it. m/r

The Senate GOP’s Surrender | National Review Online

OCTOBER 14, 2013 By  Quin Hillyer

The Collins-Manchin plan on the budget would secure nothing of note.

House Republicans had a joke in the mid-1990s that the Democrats were their opponents, but the Senate was the enemy. Today’s House Republicans are beginning to develop the same sentiment — but this time, it’s not a joke.

When Representative Paul Ryan last week used the pages of the Wall Street Journal to suggest a way out of the shutdown/debt-ceiling morass, conservatives complained that Ryan’s column did not even mention Obamacare. Yet now Ryan himself, less than a week after some conservatives accused him of sandbagging their efforts, is complaining that Senate Republicans are sandbagging his own compromise proposal just as it seemed to be gaining traction.

Conservatives were right about Ryan, and Ryan is right about the Senate. The Senate’s apostasy, though, appears substantially worse.

At least Ryan’s proposal aimed to accomplish conservative goals: long-term savings, entitlement reform, new limits on the coddling of federal employees, and a simplified tax code with lower corporate rates. Its deliberate refusal to include even the slightest nick in Obamacare’s edifice provided evidence that Ryan is far from averse to disappointing conservatives — but at least he could claim to be keeping his eye on the long-term goal of greater fiscal responsibility.

Nothing like that can be said about the Senate plan whose details began to emerge on Saturday. It would essentially forfeit all leverage associated with both the debt ceiling and the annual appropriations process by providing a largely “clean” spending resolution through March while raising the debt ceiling enough to last through January. The only “concession” it would extract from the Left would be a two-year delay — not even a repeal but merely a delay — in the medical-device tax. The full repeal of this tax already enjoys majority support in both houses of Congress, and Barack Obama has indicated it is not central to his health-insurance Leviathan.

If the Collins-Manchin plan isn’t the equivalent of Neville Chamberlain’s “peace in our time,” that’s only because the moral stakes aren’t as high. Left unaddressed in the plan as it’s been reported are the possibilities of delaying all or a significant part of Obamacare by at least a year; attacking the Independent Payment Advisory Board, which is the largest of the highly vulnerable parts of Obama’s health monstrosity; undertaking reforms in entitlements or taxes; and taking steps toward any other significant fiscal or policy achievement.

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