What a moderate does is recognize that throwing tantrums and holding your breath is not the way to get things done. Reducing the debt must be done by raising revenue and reducing spending. The level of each will depend on compromise
A couple in China was starving. Because of the one child law, they have a two year old son who is the the center of the universe to them, Yi-Chang Publicentitlement. The child weighs 780 pounds. The mother, Yi-Chang Fascistdemocrat demands that every morsel of food that the family be given to the baby, the father, Yi-Chang Republican has agreed. But it still isn't enough. The child has a 40,000 calorie per day diet, though the income of the family is only enough to buy 10,000 calories worth of food.
The father says that there is no choice, the amount of food going to child must be cut. But the mother, Fascistdemocrat shrieks that father is cruel and evil, how could he even suggest her precious darling be deprived of everything he wants? The mother demands that the diet be INCREASED to 50,000 calories and the father be butchered to feed to the child.. She storms out of the house because Republican won't compromise on the question of being butchered and fed to the child. She says "every idea is on the table," as long as father agrees to be butchered and fed to the child. She shrieks that Republican is selfish for not agreeing to be butchered.