Given the current situation (i.e., the Democrats still controlling the Senate and the White House), a punt might be the only feasible option anyway.
Don’t try to bring sanity to this argument!
This plan will pick up a lot of RAT and RINO votes in the house.
Money upfront, with only promised spending cuts.
Bonehead won’t need the votes of conservatives.
If this is what is to be, I’d let the RINO’s and RATS carry the water on this trickery and expose them for the coming elections.
If this is the way Bonehead passes it, I can guarantee there will primary challenges and many moderates on both sides will be looking for work after 2012.
Bonehead had better enjoy all the sham deals he can pass now.
He will be gone soon enough.