Someone finally has some cojones. I am incredulous that anyone can consider passing another budget with a another $1,000,000,000,000 deficit.

What exactly does it take to convince the House Republicans that they need a new Speaker. This Plan B stuff was a fiasco. It makes the Speaker look like an idiot. What made him think he could get Plan B passed? Doesn´t the House leadership talk to the rank-and-file members?

I got a call from the RNC and told them NO donations while Boehner was giving away the country and hung up. Maybe others are doing the same and it is finally making the pubbies believers.

The problem with going over the cliff is that it plays into the Dem´s hands. They love cutting military spending and raising taxes. And when entitlement get chopped, too, they can always promise to raise entitlements. That´s how they get re-elected, with the promise of more entitlements to each interest group.

Instead of the millionaire tax, Boehner should have brought up the Bush Tax Cuts in their entirety and passed them and told Dingy and Obomination the onus is now on them.

Way to go. Zippy wants the automatic tax increases. Afterwards he can float a huge "tax break" for the middle class and come out of this as the savior. Rather disconcerting to see that a couple of bitter children who lost their chairmanship of their widdle committees now want to take their ball and go home, Boehner is right to push the Pelosi plan, it was undermining the Dems bargaining leverage. But now a couple of "true conservatives" led by the idiotic and irrational advice of a pinheaded attorney, Mark Levin, have given Dear Leader an upper hand. Zippy wins. Levin and the bed wetters have their ideological purity intact, and America loses. AGAIN! Only the Stupid Party would put up with leadership from a handful of Monday quarterbacking shock jocks who´ve never held a real job in their entire lives. Rant over.

The jump should be interesting, as we go over the cliff---after all, it is not the fall that hurts. It´s the sudden stop at the bottom that gets you.

I agree with #5. Since the Democrats won´t support "plan B" anyway, what was the point?

Dumb, dumb move. If the GOP had passed Plan B, the Democrats would have had to vote against it. They would have looked mule-headed and uncooperative. Now we do.

There is no chance of winning a PR battle when the press is working for the other side. Plan B was a gimmick which involved picking one group of taxpayers to penalize. It was exactly the wrong group if the objective is to grow the economy. That said, if it were my call, I would have voted for it. I just hope that Boehner doesn´t agree to something that is even worse for the economy and gets enough Democrat votes to pass.

The Democrats weren´t going to vote on anything. The whole goal for them was to go over the cliff. The fact that the Republican leadership could not counter begs for a change at the top.

Eventually the Republican leadership has to realize that Lucy isn´t going to let you kick the ball.