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.
Wrong. The Boehner bill says the second part has to be taken care of by Spring. $1T now, another $1.7T by then.