The House GOP leadership’s position of not embracing Paul Ryan’s roadmap seems to me like a plausible and honest one. Not only can they not campaign on it, but they can’t legitimately promise to pass it, given that there are policy questions and debates about it in their conference and within the Right — and then we can talk about the rest of the country!

Boehner, Cantor, McCarthy, Roskam et al. want to promise things they can achieve. The next few weeks should probably be about encouraging them to make the boldest promises they can deliver on.