If republicans expect to make any changes in Washington they need to start using a different playbook. What is happening isn&rsquo;t a game &ndash; it&rsquo;s a fight for the survival of our country. <br />
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They had the perfect opportunity to make &ldquo;REAL&rdquo; cuts instead of compromising with a President and opposing party that don&rsquo;t care about fiscal responsibility.<br />
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With the U.S. debt limit expecting to be reached on May 16, now would have been the perfect time to hammer the message home that we can&rsquo;t continue down the road we are going. It isn&rsquo;t about the next election and getting another term in office. It&rsquo;s about fixing our country.<br />
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The sad truth is they have lost that opportunity by agreeing to a watered down version of the original cuts and the elimination of the riders from their original proposal. I don&rsquo;t think a 2.3% reduction in a debt of 1,400,000,000,000 is what I would call substantive cuts!<br />
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For an article, by Rachelle Younglai from <span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><em><strong>www.newsdaily.com</strong></em></span>, on the debt ceiling and budget cuts click on the following story link titled: &ldquo;<a href="http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre7335by-us-usa-budget-debt/"><em><strong>Geithner warns U.S. to hit debt ceiling by May 16</strong></em></a>&rdquo;<br />
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