POLITICO.COM : Congress Republicans find themselves under big pressure from their voters, the public and democrats over budgets and spending - There is no time for the GOP legislative agenda before elections

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The Possibility of more Governments shutdowns and brinkmanship in the year before election seems very dangerous for Congress Republicans. The public demands results and the GOP has nothing to show !

And the supercommittee charged with cutting trillions of dollars from spending seems like a mess where everything can stall and the Republicans can be blamed for the ensuing government paralysis. If Republicans become very aggressive against the President with obstacles and land mines everywhere then they can risk their jobs on November 2012.

It is extremely difficult for Congress Republicans to fulfill their promises to their Voters, made during the 2010 campaign.

POLITICO.COM
GOP faces omnibus headache
By JAKE SHERMAN & JOHN BRESNAHAN
September 18, 2011

GOP faces omnibus headache


Some excerpts :

Boehner also doesn’t seem interested in another episode of government shutdown brinkmanship after the brutal summer debt battle and the near shutdown in the spring.

“We don’t want to get into some big, knock-down-drag-out fight over all this,” said a House GOP leadership aide. “We need to start showing something solid in terms of jobs and the economy.”

And the legislative calendar is equally full, making it difficult to find House floor time to take up the 2012 appropriations bills individually.

Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) have called for congressional action on long-delayed trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama, and Reid has scheduled Senate trade floor action this week. Senate Democrats are pushing for more government financial aid for those workers affected by the trade deals, although Boehner and McConnell are opposed to any new funding.

Boehner will also have to shepherd through any agreement reached by the supercommittee charged with cutting at least $1.2 trillion in government spending, as well as facing down Obama over the president’s jobs bill. Obama is expected to call for new taxes on millionaires in a White House deficit-reduction plan scheduled to be rolled out on Monday, a move that Boehner and McConnell have already rejected. “We’ve got a 9.1 percent unemployment rate. Does anybody think that’s a good idea other than the president?” McConnell said during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday. “There’s bipartisan opposition to what the president is recommending already.”

Boehner is pushing for the supercommittee to include the broad outlines for overhauling the U.S. Tax Code in any agreement it reaches, although even House Republicans doubt that kind of deal can be reached in the panel’s short deadline of Nov. 23.

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