Boehner Repeals Murphy's Law (WSJ Opinion)

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Boehner Repeals Murphy's Law

The debt-ceiling deal puts the GOP in a good position for 2012.

By WILLIAM MCGURN

When it comes to Murphy's Law—the idea that anything that can go wrong, will—we Irish have our corollary: Murphy was an optimist.

Even from this sunny perspective, it's hard to look at the debt-ceiling compromise and see it as anything but a conservative victory. It's not just that Speaker of the House John Boehner succeeded in imposing some conditions in exchange for an increase in the debt ceiling. It's that the deal has Democrats, including the president, essentially signing on to the Republican framework for defining the Beltway's budget problem: spending that is too high rather than taxes that are too low.

For the moment, the press focus remains on the intra-conservative spat between Republicans who favor Mr. Boehner's deal and tea partiers who largely oppose it. These disagreements will fade, however. And come the 2012 elections this deal will help force the debate that all conservatives have wanted all along—about the size, scope, and proper mission of our federal government.

That's a striking achievement, especially if you remember how this year started. We began the debt-ceiling debate on Democratic terms, with President Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner insisting on a "clean bill" that had no conditions attached. Then came threats about grandma not getting her Social Security check if Republicans didn't do as the president demanded, and folks likening Republicans and tea partiers to terrorists.


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1. Lets see now

This is from a Rupert Murdoch owned paper, so why should we believe anything they say?

Sure republicans got more than the democrats, but to think that the party that took this country hostage in order to get their way is a "WINNER" is asinine to say the least! I have read a lot of discussion boards on news sites since this whole mess started, an one thing that seem to be fairly common was that the tea party needs to GO! Their popularity is down, only around 10 people turned up at their D.C. rally, yet the Boehner had to kiss their ass in order to get things done because he knew that these people are not only crazy enough to take this country into an economical disaster, but also he, and the other main stream republicans, were worried that they would get a primary challenge in the next election, and even though he kissed up big time, they are sill going to run a teabagger against him!

This is a whole lot of spin, and republicans are praying that the country "FORGETS" all about this, that it gets swept under they rug, but I don't think that is going to happen. All democrats have to do is keep what happened in the news, bring it up whenever they can, and use the words from the tea party nuts who did this in ads to take them down.

Yes, republicans got more, but they also lost, and no matter how much the right wing rags try to spin it, it WILL be a factor in next years elections!