Boehner and the Republicans need to man up and be good patriotic Americans --- gird their loins for a real fight about a real fiscal cliff in 2013

The current GOP members of the House of Representatives need to pass a full extension of the "Bush Tax Cuts" ---  then go home  with the work of the 112th  U.S. Congress done for good!  Of course, House Speaker Boehner's last official act should be to wish Obama, Reid  and Pelosi  "Happy New Year"

The Republicans of the 113th Congress need to come back with a new spring in their step, elect a new Speaker of the House  -- preferably Eric Cantor (R - Va.) --  And then they need do the work of the American people re-enacting all the "Bush Tax Cuts" and re-passing the "Ryan Budget". Then they need to keep the debt ceiling exactly where it is until the nation sees real Obama budget cuts. Not difficult -- simple !

Let the Obama Administration and the Democrats in the Senate respond with their own fiscal plans. Good luck with that!

The only negotiations that should be conducted would be  those held in the context of a House-Senate Conference on any competing bills, which had passed the respective chambers of the Congress in that session.