The bottom line is that Republicans need to get out front now and say this..
No plan that Harry Reid or Obama have put forward is going to stop the rating agencies from downgrading the USA credit rating.
It is time for serious cuts, Cut Cap and Balance would have added the security needed for these agencies to keep America’s credit rating at a triple A rating.
Senate Democrats and Obama refused to even vote on the plan that would have actually worked.
I found these tables helpful in trying to see where these plans are taking us.
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/112xx/doc11231/frontmatter.shtml#1014410
I would say that the Republicans are losing the PR battle. From what I have read online on forums and postings. It seems like this is all one big show for the cameras.
The fix is and has been in for awhile. Or so it seems.
This is all political theater. Boehner, Reid, and Obama have already agreed to a deal. Once the Senate bill is defeated, then the real bill will emerge and be passed by both the Senate and the House. The Dems in the House will vote overwhelmingly for it and the bill will be passed with Rep help. The Tea Party members of Congress can vote against it as political cover. The fix is already in.
CCB is garbage too -- The cuts amount to NOTHING.
I am afraid the only way "real" cuts will ever happen is total economic collapse. Short of that, nothing meaningful will happen.
Our Republic is too far down the road to Socialism to be turned around. The EVIL left owns most of our institutions and have successfully weakened the mindset of enough Americans to guarantee the trajectory of our future -- Socialism.