GOP party conference described as "balky, hard to lead"
Forcing
negotiations this time is the fiscal cliff, the combination of
expiring tax breaks and mandatory spending cuts that will begin in
January unless the White House and Congress can agree on a plan to
postpone or replace the measures. Going over the cliff would likely
send the country back into a recession, economists and budget experts
have predicted.
These
negotiations will be a high-profile test of Mr. Boehner's leadership
of his own party conference, a balky, hard-to-lead crowd. He is
walking a tightrope between the party's large conservative faction
that has put a premium on confrontation and its more pragmatic wing.
He is asking his colleagues to give him latitude to size up and
navigate the new political landscape—and for now, at least, they
seem to be giving it to him. - “The
Wall Street Journal,” Sunday, 11/11/12
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