Republican leaders in Congress have just negotiated a fiscal deal that can best be described as unconditional fiscal surrender. It is the worst budget deal to be negotiated by the GOP since George H.W. Bush agreed to violated his no new taxes pledge in 1990 at Andrews Air Force Base.
The result of that capitulation was to make Bush a one-term president and to split the Republican party right down the middle. By raising spending, canceling budget caps, ending the sequester and raising the debt ceiling by nearly $1 trillion this deal has the same catastrophic potential.
Every presidential candidate should be asked where they stand on this deal. Anyone of them that supports it is no friend of taxpayers or balanced budgets. Read more
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