The President and Harry Reid are holding firm because they don't WANT a budget that is smaller. We went through this dance before. Heck, this budget was still enormous and only cut out the part that has the greatest chance of exploding into even higher debt and they wouldn't budge but you're calling the Tea Party faction "radical". That's pure idiocy -- and the Tea Party faction didn't even exist when Bush was president, it arose because of the extraordinary spending pushed by OPR (Obama-Pelosi-Reid) that made even Bush look fiscally responsible.

You want to say the GOP and Bush aren't blameless? Fine, I'm with you on that but calling the Tea Party faction radical when the obstinate radicalism is clearly sitting over at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and at the Senate is blindly ignorant and purely stupid.