He is still saying exactly what he & Cantor have said all along. Tax cuts equal to or in excess of the debt hike and no tax increase.
All along people have said Boehner would cave. Well, he hasn't.
Now, they're saying they don't want the cuts over ten years and of course the MSM is stoking that argument. Now the argument is no longer that he will cave about taxes and such but they've changed the goal posts to "we don't want ten year timeframes."
But if Boehner can win this one, we move on to the next one and get a little more (and we will because Obama has been weakened by this debate)...and the next one with a little more...etc. until we capture Senate and WH and then we of course have much more ability to do a lot more.
The problem is that the up front cuts are so miniscule that we will be at the debt limit again in the early spring. Then the public is going to be p.o’d and think ‘already, I thought we were taking care of the deficit?’
Harry Reid will then come out and say he offered to cut nearly triple what the GOP did. The Tea Party will be pissed and abandon the GOP. Obama will offer another bogus promise to cut and Reid will put together another sham budget with a 3T debt ceiling increase. They’ll look like kings and the Pubbies will watch their base leave. Pubbies lose.