The GOP do not Represent Republicans

That certainly sounds like an outlandish claim, but without supporting evidence, I would not make it.  The GOP won’t get what they want.  Convert the defense cuts to cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.  Keep most of the domestic spending cuts.  Make the federal government small enough to drown in a tea pot.  Increase welfare for the super rich.  Failing that, the GOP plan is to let the sequester happen.  However, more Republicans support the sequester plan put forward by the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) than those that support the plan by Republican politicians.  As many support the CPC plan as those who oppose it.

When the Business Insider polled registered voters and asked for their preferences among three Congressional plans floated to avoid the looming "sequestration" cuts in Washington, they found that when stripped of their partisan labels, the policies most favorable to the majority were those offered by the progressive wing of the Democratic caucus.

The CPC’s ‘Balancing Act’ proposes a one-year tax credit of $800 for low- and middle-income families and says it could prevent up to 280,000 teacher layoffs, modernize 35,000 public schools, and make infrastructure investments that if sustained could protect 3.5 million jobs by 2020. As it turns out, people like these ideas. Strikingly, the plan offered by the Congressional Progressive Caucus, called The Balancing Act and introduced in early February, is the plan that has received the least attention in the corporate media’s coverage of the ongoing and latest "invented" Beltway crisis.

The poll found that in addition to beating the House Republican plan and the Senate Democrat’s plan overall, "more than half of respondents supported [the Balancing Act] compared to sequestration and [only] a fifth of respondents were opposed."

Moreover and "shockingly," a full 47 percent of Republicans preferred the House Progressive plan to the across the board cuts pushed by their party leaders in Washington. According to the Insider, "This means that Republicans supported the House Progressive plan just as much as they supported their own party’s plan."… [emphasis added]

Inserted from <Common Dreams>

The article includes links both the poll and the CPC plan.  Check it out.  It is clearly the best plan on the table, even though there is no chance for its adoption.