Marc Theissen posted an article in Monday's Washington Post about the coming budget battles. The article evaluates the spending cuts in the budget deal reached last week with the Republicans as a Republican victory. Mr. Theissen's logic is as follows:
"Republicans succeeded in forcing Obama to accept some of the largest spending cuts in history. Why? Because the president wisely recognized that the political landscape had changed dramatically since 1995. If Obama was confident voters would have blamed the GOP for a shutdown again, the government would be closed as you read this. Instead, the president caved."
The writer then further argues that if President Obama was not willing to let the government shut down over $38.5 billion in cuts, he will not be willing to allow a cataclysmic government default.
Mr. Theissen concludes:
"If negotiations stall, House Republicans could pass a series of small debt-limit increases, with spending cuts attached, to keep the government solvent. Obama would be in no position to veto such temporary measures -- because his veto would cause the government to default. Republicans can keep doing this until Obama capitulates. In the end, the president will have little choice but to swallow whatever spending reforms the GOP demands."
I really like the way this man thinks. Mr. Theissen concludes:
"This is no time for Republicans to play small ball. In the debt-limit fight, the GOP enjoys a perfect storm of public support, political leverage and presidential weakness. This means Republicans have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to do something big. They must seize it. If Obama wants to raise the federal debt limit, the price should be the even deeper cuts and reforms proposed by Ryan - and a balanced budget amendment that would force Congress to implement them."
I hope someone in the Republican leadership reads Marc Theissen in the Washington Post!
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