Great intro to my next point: I came up with an answer to the question I been posting for days. It was :
“Why doesn't the House GOP go after the debt ceiling rather than the actual spending in the CR?” as O and Dems dare them to try?
The answer is that the national debt polls high in voters worries, so Rs take a symbolic stand against debt by holding out the debt ceiling.
And if Rs take the stand on the CR instead they are going on the record on specific spending cuts which as you point out are unpopular and O crucifies them.
But that doesn't mean Rs will win this because as we have seen Dems will pull all sorts of tricks and scare the daylights out of voters.
So the endgame is : Rs cave again, and they know it, this helps explain what they are doing relative to my question.
When they cave on the debt limit it is after they took a symbolic stand against unpopular debt, but if they take a stand on CR spending cuts they are hated for cutting ‘my ...”, hated for caving, and hated for playing games. Lose-lose-lose
Lastly Rs want distant future entitlement cuts which is even more unpopular than cutting CR spending, so they play this game saying that that Obama has to come to the table and sign on or else... because Obama will skin them alive if they go it alone on that.
“Why doesn't does the House GOP go after the the debt ceiling rather than going after the actual spending in the CR directly?”
sorry
It is long past time for everybody to get a grip. There will never be any spending cuts. Never.
This is why the sequestration cuts MUST be allowed to happen, and the cowardly Rs better come up with a great scheme to have the African communist Ubanga share at least some of the blame. ...Which will be no easy task since that scumbag Ubanga has his Democrat “mainstream” newsrooms dishing out the propaganda on his behalf, 24/7.