Let him try. He doesn’t have the votes. And he isn’t going to gain seats in 2014. The one thing that might be good for the GOP is being passive aggressive. I don’t think it’s likely that any serious, beneficial action on the debt occurs over the next four years. So rather than try to force Obama into entitlement reform (which he and the Senate would likely only buy into with a VAT), just hold the line on taxes, refuse to increase spending, undercut Obama care, refuse to cooperate on immigration, and pray for the health of the Supreme Court.
The GOP position should be “you got your tax hike on the rich, problem solved”, then walk away and hope for better results in 2014 and 2016. Obama isn’t going to do anything serious about spending without agreement to ridiculous tax hikes, so let him own the spending and debt, and we will see if that “destroys” the GOP.
Dickerson doesn’t realize that gun control isn’t getting out of the Senate, so blaming the GOP for that isn’t going anywhere. And I’m sure the electorate will be pitching a fit over the lack of carbon taxes. He is spending too much time in DC with his buddies and too little time in flyover country.
Maybe 1 out of 100 Obama voters even knows what a carbon tax is. Obama has everything to lose by pushing issues like that and gun control, and nothing to gain.
And he isn’t going to gain seats in 2014...”
Just like “no president with an economic record as bad as his” could EVER be re-elected?
How’d that work out for ya?