What is your opinion on the actions and decision-making of a group of individuals who attempted to create a new plan in a limited amount of time, without the involvement of all necessary parties?
If these clowns had half a brain, they wouldn't have tried to pull something like coming up with a whole new plan with only a hand full of "brains" in a backroom.  Instead of scraping the whole thing, why don't they get together with the dems and the rest of their colleagues to come up with a plan to fix what needs fixing?  Sure there is a lot that needs to be done, but that is even more the reason to not be trying to reinvent the wheel at this point, and to try and do it in such an unrealistic time frame.  It took years to get to this point, no one expects it to be fixed over night so stop trying.