49, 62, 78, 79. All good, realistic comments.

The debt issue is of paramount importance, but it needs to be relegated to secondary status in the election. “It’s the economy, stupid.” I don’t want it to go away. In theory, it should be #1… with a truly informed electorate, but that is not what we have. We ahve to talk about the economy to win. We just need to get to 2013, folks. We are just buying time.

This deal is far from ideal. Is it an airball? No. (Btw, first down is football, and airball is basketball. Mixed metaphor. I think you meant dropped pass.)

The ’08 election was a kickoff return into scoring range. The fight against Stimulus, Climate Change nonsense, and ObamaCare were goal-line stands. They were finally forced to kick a field goal. The 2012 election was a good run-back of their kickoff. The budgets were incomplete passes. Only the ground game has been effective. This is a first down. We’re just ramming it down their throats.

We are not getting everything we want all at once, but they are not stopping us, and they are getting nothing they want. We start a new series of downs. Now we move to actually producing a budget,as per this agreement.

Here is what the Left wanted but had to give up, for those of you who are so unhappy:

Tax-rate hikes;
Additional stimulus;
Producing no budget (let the Republicans make the tough choices);
Blaming Republicans for the deficit/spending;
No entitlement cuts;
Obama re-election boost;
Making the Right look “extreme”, “ideological”, and “irresponsible”;

They got nothing. Nothing!

We gained a first-down, because we shifted the dialogue. The talk is about cutting spending. So is the agreed solution. They have ceded us the high-ground on this. We are beginning to win.

I think folks are foolish to think that it is supposed to be easy, just like snapping your fingers. The Dems thought that when they won in ’08. They had the power and still could not score a TD. Now we have far less power, and folks think we can just get it done easily. We can’t. It is going to be a long grueling fight the whole way. Even in 2013, it will still be hard.

It is not supposed to be easy. Our Founders saw to that. They did not want wild swings of public mood to create wild swings in the Republic. It is why they chose to have a Republic, not a Democracy. Real change is supposed to come slowly, deliberately.

Nov ’12 won’t solve it. We will have to fight again in Nov ’14, and again in Nov ’16. But about then, we will be very close to victory, as long as we DO NOT OVER-REACH like the Dems did. Slow. Deliberate. Grind it out, and hold onto the ball.

This is a victory. This is the Right getting their first first-down in a long time, and across midfield. We are learning to play offense, finally. This is a good day. Enjoy it.