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Spending bills must originate in House. The nation is bankrupt. The House has passed three (?) budgets, all tabled in the Senate. Spinning this against us is a full time job. Fighting such smears is a part time job, and the Tea Party crowd is happy to volunteer effort in the task. The worst thing that could happen is for Boehner and Cantor to succeed in providing the Senate with a weak vessel of a bill they can butcher to their own purposes and hand back to the House for re-passing ... still bound in a Republican book cover. I'm still crossing my fingers that doesn't happen. Talk about a lose-lose scenario. At that point the Republicans have the choice of either stabbing We the People in the back by passing the abomination, or giving the Democrat party election campaign fodder by not signing was will be spun as their own bill and appearing as obstructionists.

The worst thing that could happen is for Boehner and Cantor to succeed in providing the Senate with a weak vessel of a bill they can butcher to their own purposes and hand back to the House for re-passing ... still bound in a Republican book cover.

I will state an unpopular position on this board.
I care less about the total cuts in any bill than that they remove automatic spending increases from baseline budgeting and include a list of priorities for payments in case of a lack of either budget authority (current CR ends Oct 1), or they hit the borrowing limit again.

Why oh why did the GOP keep trying to pass bills? Why not stop at CC&B and wait for the Senate to act or not? This death of a thousand cuts approach always cedes the PR battle to the Democrats. It will always be the Republicans fault. Why does Boehner persist?