With the institutional GOP having shown no interest in neither at any time in the memorable, post-war past...balancing budgets or reducing debt/deficits (which "don't matter", in the words of the most powerful and influential and world affecting GOP politician of your and my lifetimes don. the venerable Richard Cheney) that would be, who would lead them to do either now? This new bunch of angry, formerly self-presumed to be middle class pensioners and outsourcing and consolidation affected laid-offs?
Would you bet that they are going to get McConnell and Boehner, and the new help Rand Paul and the guy from Alaska to buck **bleep** Armey and the Koch Brothers with some populist, "everyman" agenda items? Best shot they'd have to get through to the GOP leadership would be to mount great waves of support for dismantling the new regulations, weak and such as they are, on deriviates.
And BTW...there could be millions of "vapor paper" dependent, pension expectant upper middle class Democrats who just might go along with them on that.
