[r9etb]

Why is the GOP pussyfooting around with the democrats on the budget?

Because they only have the House. They can only do so much legislatively, before the Senate and WH shut the bills down.

But for building a platform for the next election .... that, I think, is being done.

[skeeter]

IMO they're better off throwing down the gauntlet in the House NOW regardless of what the senate will do.

Allowing the current baseline to become institutionalized is a 100 megaton bomb waiting to go off. The GOP has to begin acting like it.