The Coming Shutdown

The situation is quite simple: if a deal on a budget isn't reached between Republicans and Democrats in Congress by midnight, there will be a government shutdown.  Democrats are trying to portray Republicans as not willing to compromise, and they are in particular demonizing Congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin for his Path To Prosperity plan.

Here's an interesting question to the Democrats: Where's your budget plan?  I know it's a question asked by just about everybody, and yet there's no answer from Harry Reid and his buddies.  With all the spending done by the Obama administration since it began, it's galling to find the Democrats battling to cut as little spending as possible.

The Republican leadership for the most part hasn't been pursuing the kind of cuts I'd like to see (like what Senator Rand Paul, God bless him, has offered), but compared to the Democrats, what they offer to cut in the budget and in government spending is significantly more.  What do the Democrats offer?  The Democrats want compromise, but they expect the compromising to come from the Republicans.

As for Paul Ryan's budget plan, I've gone through it and it's a pretty good first step in trying to undo the economically threatening actions of the Democrats and reverse the years of increased government spending, but of course, the Democrats do nothing but claim with this plan, senior citizens will lose their Social Security and Medicare coverage.  Too bad the Democrats haven't bothered to come up with an alternative plan while launching hyperbolic attacks against their opponents in Congress.

Bottom line, the Republicans are the ones trying to do their job (acting like adults), the Democrats are the ones behaving like brats, while trying to spin the possibility of a shutdown as a nightmare brought upon the American people by the Republicans.  John Boehner and the Republicans need to stand firm against the Democrats, and they need to back Paul Ryan and his budget plan.