Draft the ideal plan..or the closest thing you can to it...pass it in the house with GOP support only. Send it to the Senate where it dies. Take the best deal you can from the dems. Spend the next 15 months making the case that the American people could have had your plan but got something worse instead.
People...this isn’t defeat, it’s the roadmap to a win in 2012. The house, senate and Presidency.
>> “Draft the ideal plan” <<
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That would start with the plan offered by Ron Paul, to have the fed cancell their bond debt, since it is phony anyway. That’ll free up 1.7 trillion bucks instantly.
Then start cutting the budget instantly by another trillion in vote buying “entitlements.”
Been there, done that with the Cut Cap and Balance bill.
If they can't pass that in the Senate and get Obama to sign it, I say don't raise the debt limit and force them to make the necessary cuts.