[cva66snipe]

BTW this was likely the GOP’s last chance for a hard stand on spending issues before the 2012 elections. The pathetic cowards they are will be too scared to say boo the wrong way next year because a fence straddling moderate Dem voter might get upset and not vote for them.{which they won't vote for them anyway}

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

‘BTW this was likely the GOP’s last chance for a hard stand on spending issues before the 2012 elections’

Except for the votes on raising the debt limit and on passing the 2012 budget. Also the vote on passing the 2013 budget is due before the presidential election.