The deficit issue is really tough, because we only control one House right now, and getting the Presidency and the other house in 2012 is of paramount importance. So we need to cut the deficit as much as possible while maximizing our odds on getting enough power to make big changes. I honestly don't know which side is right on this because it is more a tactical/strategic issue than one based just on principle.
Actually, the deficit issue is real easy because we only control one House right now. If we just say "no," to anything but a bare-bones austerity budget, then the Senate and the POTUS will have to move right, similar to what happened to the extension of the Bush tax rates. The deficit issue becomes really tough when we contol both houses and the POTUS because every act or failure to act will be the GOP's responsibility.
“The deficit issue is really tough, because we only control one House right now, and getting the Presidency and the other house in 2012 is of paramount importance. So we need to cut the deficit as much as possible while maximizing our odds on getting enough power to make big changes.”
—I really doubt that Boehner and his cronies are going to be making big cuts to the deficit. They haven’t shown any evidence of this. The minute Obama and Harry Reid raise an objection and the MSM starts hyperventilating, they will back down as they always do.
Boehner is not a leader, plain and simple.
It may be only one house, but it controls all the money.
The dirty little secret is that the House leadership wants ObamaCare. They are stalling so the funds that the sneaky democrats put into to this bill that no one read, will put all the infrastructure for ObamaCare in place.
The E-Publicans don't want anything to do with the rabble we sent them.
I also doubt the SCOTUS will touch it, else they would have stepped in to stop ObamaCare, in spite of the administration ignoring two contempt citations.