You think like a loser.
The house should pass the budget that represents what they were elected to do. Let the fight happen in the Senate where the Dems have control. The country is overwhelmingly in favor of deficit reduction. Let the Dems go on record as stopping it. There is not reason for the House Republican leadership to be the ones getting the blame for stopping it. It is a gauranteed path to Republican defeat.
How can the Republicans not have leaverage when they just won the biggest national landslide in US history? The voters have spoken. The leadership should listen.
No, I was paying attention back in '95 when the Republicans had both houses of Congress and Clinton was stuck at 42 % in the polls, and they BLEW it, and came up with nothing on their wish list. In fact, Clinton got reelected , easily.