By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | December 17th, 2012 at 07:53 AM

What is worse than striking out? Grounding into a double play.

Not only is Boehner prepared to raise taxes – both through capping deductions and increasing marginal rates – he is now prepared to preemptively surrender our last point of leverage in one fell swoop. The media is now reporting that Boehner offered Obama a clean 1-year debt ceiling extension as part of the deal to raise taxes in return for fake spending cuts.

The debt ceiling fight presents us with an enormous opportunity to change the subject from revenue to spending cuts. It also provides Republicans with a teachable opportunity t illustrate how absurdly Obama has squandered the entire $2.1 trillion debt increase in just 16 months.

But that would require articulation and communication, arduous tasks for Republicans. Why go through the trouble of contrasting your views when you could just wash your hands of the issue and cave?

Boehner is acting like a desperate person on a sinking ship who is tossing everything overboard.

Taxes? You got it.

Debt ceiling? Take everything you want.

Amnesty? Please take it off my hands.

What’s next? Why doesn’t he offer cap and trade, an assault weapons ban, and a VAT? And because the Democrats picked up a few seats in the House, maybe he should offer Pelosi a Christmas present of half the committee chairmanships?

This is a man who would pay more than the sticker price for a car.

When you couple this capricious behavior with his purge of conservatives from committees, you have to wonder if this is 1984 all over again – a situation where the opposition is nothing more than a part of the party in power.

Whether it’s incompetence or malevolence is not our concern. Boehner must step down in place of someone who will offer us a choice, not a feeble echo.

http://www.redstate.com/2012/12/17/boehn...se-fast-enough/

Aarrgghhh! More from the leader of the Vichy Republicans! Nothing coming from his is a surprise anymore.

And on a side note, this quote sticks out:

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The debt ceiling fight presents us with an enormous opportunity to change the subject from revenue to spending cuts.

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I can't tell you how ticked off I am at the way the language is being co-opted. Of course, State Run Media provides all of the oomppfff behind it. "Taxes and fees" (most often with the modifier of "more" or "higher") are now called "Revenue." Typically "revenue" has a positive connotation in a lot of folks minds (except of the course the statists, but they're not the targets here), even if it is at a sub-conscious level. (Little thought clouds popping up amongst the masses: "Sure, the government needs more revenue....")

And how about this one? "We can't afford those tax cuts for the wealthy..." or "Bush gave us these tax cuts that we can no longer afford, we really never could afford them...." Talk about turning reality inside out! The unstated premise behind all of this talk about "government affording" (or not) is the concept that "All your $$$ are belong to us!" What they are really saying is "Government can't allow you to keep that much of your income." It just sounds better, to them, stated otherwise...

/rant_off