Taking the long view, in the mid-term elections, the Republicans may control both houses of congress, which means they will partially control appropriations, until a new Republican president is elected in four years.
So there needs to be a conservative strategy now. To start with, they will need to be very clear with Obama that there will not be *any* spending greater than the existing budget. Not a red penny.
This is because Obama can probably prevent spending cuts yet, but Republicans can “hold the line” on spending. They can also start making serious adjustments to appropriations of the most *obnoxious* of the government agencies, to force them to quit oppressing the people.
These half-measures should just lead up to a Republican congress and a Republican senate (with fewer RINOs, hopefully too few to block conservative legislation), and a Republican president.
When *that* happens is when the budgetary axes start to chop. A Republican congress should approach the federal budget as if they are carrying a chainsaw.
They will have to be mentally prepared to end literally tens of thousands of government programs and hundreds of thousands of regulations. And the more they end at the start of the new congress, the better, so they can reverse any small cuts that are needed a year later.
If there is a large and powerful conservative think tank out there, they need to take a yellow high-lighter pen to the index of federal regulations, so that there will be a ready list of things to delete.
Conservative chairmen of house and senate committees should begin day one with a laundry list of deletions that will be made on a party line vote, one after another. Then they each should forward deletions passed out of their committee to the Speaker of the House and the Senate Majority Leader, who will include it in the process ASAP.
Then bill after bill, canceling decades of federal growth, will go to the Republican POTUS, and tens of thousands of pink slips will go out to federal employees.
At this point, the public is on the side of change....Benghazi, arming AlQaida in Syria, labelling Snowden a traitor, Obamacare, 2nd ammendment rights, "refugees" who are terrorists, the invasion of the US, no real jobs,....
The only reason the RINOs want to negotiate with Obama, now, is that they'd rather defeat the conservative tide and keep the game going.