WaPo: 2012 Budget Battle May Not Be a Battle After All

Reading between the lines: seeing the recent polls, Republican leaders in Congress have decided to block attempts by freshmen to cause more trouble. From the Washington Post.

But in recent weeks, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), Appropriations Chairman Harold Rogers (R-Ky.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) have each indicated that Congress should accept the $1.043 trillion funding limit set in the recent deal to raise the nation’s legal borrowing limit, and have been urging that topline number on their GOP colleagues.