[what's up]

I agree with you...the WH has offered nothing to this point (and Boehner's $800 billion by the way is not offered for free...it will only be in exchange for something else).

But my question is...would people be willing to allow a tax rate hike, for example, if the WH raised the Medicare eligibility age to 67 and other real entitlement reform?

[Reverend Wright]

if the republicans cave and agree to pass a tax rate increase and...

if three years from now the deficits are still huge (hint, they will be) and the democrats want to raise the top marginal rate to 44%

what are the republicans going to say ? no, we are philosophically opposed to tax increases?

if they willingly concede on this they have lost the tax issue for a generation