Thanks. I’m not sure I’m entirely clear on what you’re saying, however. If Obama were to get pushed to ‘lead’ on this, wouldn’t that come in the form of his cooking up something with the Senate Dems?
I’ll admit, I’m a bit jaded on this, as I’m only used to the GOP totally caving under media pressure with any sort of deadline like this, and then of course there was Boehner secretly trying to give the store away to Obama while he was pretending to hold the line both publicly and with the Congressmen he was supposedly leading.
Yes, Obama will cook something up. But the specific legislation will take time and can get specifically voted down whereas words can get agreed to or disagreed to and are cheap. I’m not that familiar with Bohener’s history and I’m mainly looking at it from where we are at today. I would let them talk nice in public as long as we can hold the line in an actual vote. My biggest fear is a media juggernaut behind some really bad legislation (e.g. hundreds of billions in new spending plus taxes, plus some hidden giveaways like the foreign bank bailouts in TARP).