So you're proposing a shut down. Please outline the steps subsequent to that that will lead to victory on the budget.
Here's what I see: Partial shutdown of gov't services, then three weeks in, public opinion turns sharply against the Republicans in Congress, aided and abetted by the Pravda media. Then , another temporary budget with less cuts in it then they would have gotten otherwise, and continuing hatred towards the Republicans, who begin to buckle individually. Finally, a 5 month budget comes out with no more significant cuts, and some BS talk about a balnced budget. In 2013, a fully Democrat gov't gets voted in..
What fun it is is to stand on principle when you have little leverage!
You think like a loser.
The house should pass the budget that represents what they were elected to do. Let the fight happen in the Senate where the Dems have control. The country is overwhelmingly in favor of deficit reduction. Let the Dems go on record as stopping it. There is not reason for the House Republican leadership to be the ones getting the blame for stopping it. It is a gauranteed path to Republican defeat.
How can the Republicans not have leaverage when they just won the biggest national landslide in US history? The voters have spoken. The leadership should listen.
Who are you? One of the writers for Inception?