When Boehner asks Obama to lead and waits for specific legislation it buys time to get his troops lined up and get closer to the cliff. The way to get the best deal from the D-senate is to have them get calls from their patrons concerned about the cliff. The worst deal is if Obama and the Senate come up with something and ramrod it through the House using a TARP-like financial crisis strategy.
Thanks. I’m not sure I’m entirely clear on what you’re saying, however. If Obama were to get pushed to ‘lead’ on this, wouldn’t that come in the form of his cooking up something with the Senate Dems?
I’ll admit, I’m a bit jaded on this, as I’m only used to the GOP totally caving under media pressure with any sort of deadline like this, and then of course there was Boehner secretly trying to give the store away to Obama while he was pretending to hold the line both publicly and with the Congressmen he was supposedly leading.