In theory, the Republicans can do all sorts of things to weasel out of it, all of which won't work at all so long as a single Democrat in the Senate is willing to put a hold on whatever horse-poo comes out of the House. And one will, but even if one doesn't, the President can still veto it.
So all of their weaseling shall be for naught unless they agree to raise taxes in an election year, which of course would ruin them and which nobody expects them to affirm, just like the debt committee was set up for them to cock up and look like the a-holes they are.
So how are they going to weasel out of it? By being the a-holes they already have been.
See, the truth is they don't have any choice about raising revenue next year, again because they're a bunch of myopic, greedy little criminals who have already long since been corralled through prior "negotiations" with the President. The tax cut extensions for the rich (and likely, everyone else, since the GOP will try to hold our tax cuts hostage to get their own back) are going to expire next January no matter what anyone does, just in time for the Democrats to save the defense budget by allocating some of that new-found revenue to Defense.
But the Republicans won't get a lick of credit for it, will lose this election over it, and will lose their most important benefactors before the next one, because the Democrats will hold all the keys to the appropriations funding and backing a Republican will be worse than backing nobody at all. All because their predictable intransigence and double-dealing allowed the Democrats to run rings around them and force agreements from them that they do not have the power to change.
Which is one hell of an effective way to deal with lyin-ass old-boys.
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