An idea about the House-Senate deficit panel that both Reid and Boehner endorse

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Lighting a candle in a box sounds dangerous.  Regardless what about this? We agree to cut 4.5 trillion dollars from debt in the 10 years between 2013-2023, with a half trillion job stimulus im effect now and no spending cuts or tax hikes go into effect before July 2013.  So net 4 trillion debt reducer (not counting the growth of the new job stimulus) Each side will be wholly responsible for their share of debt reduction: revenue or spending cuts, any way you like.  What share of the 4 trillion is each parties responsibility will be determined by their proportion of congressmen and senators in the 113th congress.  So in effect, the parties agree they can't agree on squat except a commitment to cut 4 trillion in 10 years, scored by CBO.  Baseline is Bush tax rates but no using war drawdown.  But to rule out counting war draw down Republicans have to issue a statement admitting they did the same thing in Ryan plan they're now criticizing Reid for and they apologize.  Let the American people decide how to cut their own debt.

[Bull Moose Base]

I think Democrats should offer that and announce they'll do no more than 1/3 from revenue so that if the country elects 50% GOP it'll be 5/6 spending cuts and only 1/6 revenue.  Good luck!  Also Boehner has to do another primetime speech apologizing for his last one and admitting it was 5/6 fiction (I'm being generous.)