Boehner and McConnell need to get together and propose an alternate growth plan - it could be as simple as a freeze on new regulations until the end of this president’s term, stabilization of tax rates where they are for the next 5 years, an end to any drilling restictions remaining from the BP disaster, and a commitment to revote on Obamacare at the beginning of the next Congress.
They should point out that they need to provide the private sector with some degree of economic certaintly for the future, a minimum of regulatory impediments to growth, and the prospect of improved access to energy.
And the final thing they should do is say is that if Obama rejects their proposals out-of-hand, then he’s not serious in his calls to put politics aside and focus on the good of the country (since everyone knows when Obama says “put politics aside” what he really means is “you have to agree with me or else you’re a partisan”).
They have and they will. Eric Cantor is already taking the lead. Some of this will be to re-pass bills the House already passed in 2011 that the MSM completely ignored.