Plan "B"

Take it.

Plan "B", I think must stand for Boehner, because it is steeped in political posturing.  According to the AP, Plan "B" maintains the Bush tax cuts for everyone making under $1M (which adds up to $300B in revenues over a decade) with no spending cuts; hardly adequate, if Republicans were serious about balancing long-term debt.

Take it.

Boehner is obviously planning to use the debt ceiling to extract spending cuts, so let Boehner and Republicans take full responsibility for the debt ceiling and let them take the heat for not continuing funding for emergency unemployment benefits.

Take it.

It's what Tea Party Republicans want, anyway (to cut off emergency unemployment benefits and keeping the debt ceiling in place); why bother sharing the blame for not getting a fiscal cliff deal done, when you have the odd opportunity to blame the entire mess (long-term debt, the debt ceiling and the economic drop that will occur from a fixed debt ceiling) on Republicans?

Take it.

If Karl Rove thinks the "B" plan is advantageous for Boehner, I'd take that as proof that it really is helpful for Democrats, to switch their tactic at the last second, then pin the entire debt ceiling and emergency unemployment benefit issues on Republicans.

Take it.