You can only beat your head against the liberal brick wall for so long – from The Hill:
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) announced Tuesday that he would pull out of the talks with two other Republican and three Democratic colleagues.
Coburn said the talks have collapsed over the tough issue of entitlement reform.
“We can’t bridge the gulf of where we need to go on mandatory spending,” Corburn said Tuesday afternoon. “I don’t see that there’s going to be any fruition in continuing them at this time.”…
Good thing, too – these groupings of Democrats and Republicans almost invariably produce a liberal outcome. Better to just state our case while they state theirs, and let the people decide. The people are on our side, anyways, so we should enjoy this fight.
The bottom line for the budget is that it must be cut – and to cut the budget without entitlement reform is pointless. Entitlements are what is bankrupting our nation; we need to find a way to ensure benefits at a lower long-term cost. If we don’t, then we’re fiscally doomed.
