If Team Boehner starts from the position that the GOP cannot end up being blamed by the MSM for anything, then all they will be negotiating are the terms of surrender, which will end up being unconditional.
On the spending side, the “fiscal cliff” would take military spending back to what we were spending in 2006. That is in real dollars, i.e., adjusted for inflation. This is not the crisis for the military that has been portrayed. Obviously, a massive tax increase would be disastrous but we should not start from the perspective that military spending cuts should be off the table because we certainly can achieve efficiencies there without compromising national security.
Just let this thing collapse, and it's survival of the fittest. I like our chances over the libs.