I think this all has become like a scripted episode of WWE. The written piece to Sequestration? It was written up almost eighteen months ago, and there had to be at least four planned outcomes from the Democratic prospective when this was inserted as the fall-back to the failed Super-Committee episode (another WWE-planned piece).
There’s probably six guys sitting at white board and planning out the 2014 election with a failed fiscal cliff episode and various other scripted pieces to occur shortly.
My advice is for folks to start going way off the script. Offer up an enormous tax proposal that is totally cancelled or scraped if the unemployment rises above eight percent. For a brief period....make the President sweat out this great agreement because we will sink right back to eight to nine percent unemployment by summer of 2013.
(1)Taxes rise on both the rich and middle-class, which is what they really want.
(2)Defense spending is drastically cut, which is what they really want.
(3)Looking toward the 2014 elections, the Demoncrat media will blame the GOP for going over the cliff, which is what they really want.
Regardless of what the GOP offers, the Demoncrats and their media friends will manufacture reasons to say no. Behind closed doors, the Demoncrats are drooling to go over the cliff.
It’s really quite simple for Republicans; “just do the right thing”. For each dollar of extra revenue there should be 2-3 dollars of IMMEDIATE cuts. Nothing else acceptable.
The political talk is all about tax hikes, but there’s no honest talk about the automatic spending cuts. Cut the spending.