The Republicans in Congress are about to make a Reagan mistake…. Extending tax cuts for the middle class and believing Democrats will cut spending down the road. The GOP is like 
Charlie Brown believing that Lucy will finally allow him to kick the football. It will NEVER happen.
Appears Republicans are not taking sound advice.
Krauthammer: Any Republican Who Caves on Entitlements ‘Is a Fool’
On tonight’s Special Report, Charles Krauthammer argued that, having in essence conceded on the tax issue, Republicans should not cave on the issue of entitlement reform. If they do, he says, President Obama will play them for fools. “Now, [the president] says, after Republicans give up their one issue on taxes, ‘I’ll discuss a bargain next year,’” Krauthammer said. “Of course he wants that, because that’ll be at a time when Republicans are defrocked, disrobed, and disarmed, they will have nothing to bargain with…any Republican who buys this is a fool.”
via Krauthammer: Any Republican Who Caves on Entitlements ‘Is a Fool’ – YouTube.
[...] the Idea that by passing middle class tax cuts that the White House and Democrats would approve spending cuts at a later date when they can’t even have a private call with Obama without it being leaked to the press. [...]