If the R's grow some and don't allow it to be raised any further Obamanation will have to make the cuts the R's want in the first place. Can't spend what you don't have. Hmmmmmm
I'm going to differentiate, as I usually do, between R's and C's...Conservatives. I'm not so sure that the problem in DC lies only with ideology. There has to be a mindset disconnect with professional politicians and the real world as well. They just do not understand that DC earns no money...the only money the get, they confiscate from We the People.