Cutting congressional pay? Good luck with that.
The problem is that besides symbolic votes about repealing HCR and extending Bush's tax cuts, the Republicans have absolutely no clue of what to do.
David Frum, Andrew Sullivan and other conservatives literally are begging Bhoener and Co. for a year now to present a serious plan about how they are going to reduce the deficit, to no avail.
Frum has gone even further saying that actually the GOP leadership will quickly drop any pretense about serious governing and will focus on passing the pet projects of Bhoener's lobbyist friends.
Unless of course by beating expectations you mean launching frivolous investigations, on things like Obama's trip to India, and trying to impeach him.
You lost all credibility when you claim Andrew Sullivan is a conservative. He is nothing of the sort - he's practically a Democrat, even if he doesn't call himself that. Nor is David Frum really that conservative.
The Republican leadership had absolutely no incentive to mention specifics about what they will cut while running for election. It only would have served to turn off some of the people who would otherwise vote for them, and taken the spotlight off of the real issue in the campaign - Obama. There will be budget cuts - Republicans know that if they don't govern better than in their recent past, they will be turfed again.
By the way, it's Speaker-Elect Boehner, not Bhoener, just like it's Speaker Pelosi, not Pelousy.
