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I understand your point. However, the Bunning business appears to be more or less a deliberate smear setup. Team O is doing all it can to paint the narrative that the R’s are planless obstructionists, a favorite theme of Progressivism. While I don’t disagree with Bunning’s stand in the abstract, what he did is get drawn into a skirmish set up as a distraction from the real location of the fight.

Standard military tactic, and because we are up against a foe who is treating this as all out war, and not as normal legislative deliberation, we should expect such underhanded tactics and not be deflected by them. I believe the more experienced GOP leadership is fully cognizant of the risks and benefits associated with each such sortie and has made a command decision to avoid a direct conflict over Pay-Go and other lesser zones of conflict until we finally kill ObamaCare. Yes, I could be wrong, but we won’t know till the whole strategy plays out.

Meanwhile, there will be a number of new faces come November and they will almost all be there with the kind of single-minded focus required to put the brakes on this runaway Administration. We will win because there is a God in Heaven, and because we will never, ever quit. Are we clear on that? :)

While I don’t disagree with Bunning’s stand in the abstract, what he did is get drawn into a skirmish set up as a distraction from the real location of the fight.

I don't particularly agree that a clear violation of the PAYGO law is so easily dismissed. The Rs could easily have turned the tide, if they hung the lawbreaking on the Pelosi and Reid hooks.

Nevertheless, if lawbreaking is OK when it's "just a distraction", then we've already lost the fight - and the republic.

Seems plausible. It would be inspiring to see if does turn out to be the case that there is that much thought behind all of this. DeMint’s comment about Obama’s Waterloo fits with the possibility that such a strategy exists. Still, it's difficult to imagine Republican’s being chased into elevators by ABC news next year being pilloried with asinine questions about why they're not funding health care, and them not caving. I like your confidence, though.