[Siena Dreaming]

in which this “commission” comes up with cuts and taxes and Congress then has to take it or leave it

So we have a conservative-dominated House and a Senate with 15 Red-State Dems up for election whom they have to please. I don't really see that as a negative.

[9YearLurker]

“So we have a conservative-dominated House and a Senate with 15 Red-State Dems up for election”

Exactly the reason the GOP should have gone for the jugular and added what they needed to add to CCB to get a handful of those Red State Democrat senators on board.

Instead we’ve got the 10-year cuts nonsense going on again.

[oldbrowser]

So we have a conservative-dominated House and a Senate with 15 Red-State Dems up for election whom they have to please. I don't really see that as a negative.

My point is, we have the hammer already and they are looking for a way around it. Why humor them?