Obama and Boehner struck a debt ceiling deal yesterday. House and Senate votes are imminent TODAY.

Rush Limbaugh said today that he'd "love to support it, but.", noting that this deal is NOT a victory for the Tea Party.

The fact is, it's a dirty deal. Here are a few reasons why:

--The "dollar-for-dollar" spending cuts are not real.

Obama gets $900 billion in debt ceiling increase NOW in exchange for $1 trillion in spending cuts OVER TEN YEARS. As we know, future "cuts" in government spending are not cuts at all.

--The real causes of runaway government spending are not addressed. Entitlements are left untouched. Baseline budgeting (which guarantees ever-rising government spending) is intact.

--The risk of a downgrade in our credit rating has not been addressed because runaway spending has not been addressed!

--The Obama Stimulus levels of spending are now permanently entrenched in future government spending models.

--The debt only rises in a never-ending upward trajectory. The $900 billion raise in the debt ceiling will not even last one year. An additional $1.2 trillion in additional debt will be "triggered" to carry the nation through the election.

--There are allegedly NO tax increases but that is smoke and mirrors because the CBO is projecting that the Bush tax cuts will not be extended.

If the Bush cuts are NOT extended, that amounts to a huge tax increase. If the Bush tax cuts ARE extended, the CBO projections fall apart and other tax increases will be mandated by the trigger mechanism in this bill.

--Finally... the LEFT is coming away from this debate with one of their key goals accomplished: demonizing the Tea Party. According to Politico on Friday, the Tea Party has moved from "hostage takers" to "full-blown terrorists" who are "craven to inflict massive harm on innocent victims to achieve their political goals."

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