I don’t understand why the Republicans make it so complicated. Few are going to understand this budgetary gymnastics on Main st. If McConnell wants to surrender just give barry his rubber checkbook and fight against tax increases. They have the democrat demagogue playbook but refuse to use it. Ridicule these useless dims every single day as unserious and without a plan.
When the WH offered $2 billion in cuts for FY 2012 Boehner should have shut down the pattycake with obama and gone “to the American people”. Yet instead we get plan after plan that is just distracting from the main issue: damaging and defeating obama in 2012.
Which is exactly why I don’t want to give Obama what he most wants—a raise in the ceiling past November, 2012.
Boehner needs to do some serious negotiating with his hawkish freshmen, and find other ways to guarantee that their agenda is addressed—then give Obama a clean ceiling rise only into the spring of 2012.
There’s no way the Senate or Obama can turn that down.