[dan on the right]

Krauthammer makes a compelling case (to me) for this approach. I'm as sick as all of us with how this is all going - but we can't make things happen with only 1/2 of one leg of gov’t.

We need to make sense, minimize the pain, and win in the mid-terms in 2 years and Presidency in 4 years. We simply can't expect to stop gov’t spending with only the House, a very sympathetic press, greedy public full of takers and a President who only cares about winning the fight (no concern for consequences).

Read the article. Makes sense.

[itsahoot]

but we can't make things happen with only 1/2 of one leg of gov’t.

Nope, but they can make things not happen since they control the purse.