I’m in complete agreement with Erick Erickson here:

For thirty years and seventeen debt commissions we have raised the national debt $13 trillion, seen taxes rise and fall and rise again, uncertainty come and go, and Washington remain unchanged. And now some of you want to seek cover by having yet another commission — but this time it will be different! Sure…

I give you no absolution. It is not even mine to give. I’m not a proxy for your children and grandchildren. It is their lives and their future you will affect.

A generation before you, men and women went to Washington saying they were going to turn the tide, stop the out of control spending, and stop the growth of Washington into our lives. They were going to do it for their children and grandchildren.

Now you sit where they sat. Now you do what they did.

And after you do what they did — punt, set up a commission, raise taxes, use accounting gimmicks to resolve your conscience — others will come and replace you. But they will have less and their children even less. Because doing what those who came before you did expecting a different result from what they got is not just crazy, it is failure. There are no new ideas under the sun and they have all, but one, been tried in Washington. The only one that has not been tried is holding firm and saying no more.

House Republicans, under pressure from the Obama-loving media, are now looking for the easiest way to fold. Boehner has proposed a plan to raise the debt ceiling in exchange for commissions, discretionary spending limits, and a promise to hold a vote on the Balanced Budget Amendment later on this year.

This is our chance to save America’s fiscal future. After we raise the debt ceiling, Washington will go back to spending as it pleases — there will not be post-ceiling increase reforms. We’ve seen this dance before. Washington is like the spendthrift teenager who promises to manage his money better next time, if only you give him just a little more allowance.

House Republicans who back bad legislation instead of real plans to save our fiscal future must be challenged in the 2012 primaries. If incumbents can’t be trusted to represent our interests now, when America’s very future is on the line, then when can they be trusted? This is the moment. Republicans can seize it or find themselves unemployed in 2013.