"The political advantage of Plan B was that it could have shifted the focus to Senate Democrats and at least set them up to take some more of the blame if we go over the cliff."
As I pointed out in my comment, the media was not going to give the GOP that luxury. And not only that, but Harry Reid would just come up with some new excuse- which would then be promoted in full force by the MSM- and all it would reveal was the sad spectacle that Republicans were fine with raising taxes on job-creators... in return for nothing.
That’s all fine and dandy but they didn’t need to hand the Dems and the MSM the weapon with which to bludgeon themselves.