House conservatives sick of stopgap bills

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Politico:

House conservatives have a new object of ire in their war on spending: the short-term spending resolution Republican leaders hope to pass this week.

It’s not so much the bill itself as what it represents: the prospect of Republicans spending the rest of the fiscal year squabbling with Democrats on piecemeal spending cuts that neither make a true dent in spending nor show long-term progress in their No. 1 priority.

In the House Republican Conference, freshmen and conservatives warn that there must be resolution soon on a budget funding measure that extends through the end of the fiscal year, so that the lawmakers can move on to bigger targets: the fiscal year 2012 budget and the tricky vote on the debt ceiling.

“I don’t think a lot of people have the stomach to do this ad infinitum,” said freshman Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho), predicting that the debate on a short-term funding measure wouldn’t go on much longer.

Another GOP freshman, Rep. Allen West of Florida, said it isn’t playing well back home and that constituents “are tired of half-measures.”

At least one new Republican, Kansas Rep. Tim Huelskamp, a member of the Budget Committee, said he’s voting against the short-term bill because he wants to put in place longer-term cuts embraced last month by House Republicans.

“The priorities ... are too critical to ignore for another three weeks — things like defunding the [Environmental Protection Agency], the pro-life provision [defunding Planned Parenthood] and Obamacare,” Huelskamp said in a statement.

The discontent is coming from all corners of the conference, from freshmen to appropriators to rank-and-file GOP lawmakers. Arizona Rep. Jeff Flake, a fiscally conservative budget hawk turned appropriator, said, “Patience is wearing a little thin over here.”

The critics said it’s a matter of policy.

“I really hope there’s not an endless [continuing resolution]. The reason for that is that the federal offices, the Defense Department, FBI and on and on, they can’t advance,” said GOP Rep. James Lankford of Oklahoma, a freshman on the Budget Committee. “So I’m going to push to get that resolved. ... We need a budget. We need this year’s piece done, so we can focus on 2012.”
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The freshmen are getting fed up with band-aid measures.

[clearvision]

They are not the only ones sick of this. Eventually it will give up any "power" to cut stuff as new budget for next year needs to get done.