Top White House advisers on Sunday challenged Republicans to offer alternatives and not simply criticize administration approaches, as Congress prepared to return from a two-week recess and take up a charged agenda centered on core Obama objectives.

“You have to come constructive,” Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff, said Sunday, “and when you’re the party of no, when you’re the party of never, when you’re the party of no new ideas, that’s not constructive.”

He urged Republicans, among other things, to provide a plan for energy independence, and flatly predicted that “at the end of this first year of Congress, there will be an energy bill on the president’s desk.” But speaking on ABC’s “This Week,” Mr. Emanuel he would not predict whether it would encompass the thorny issue of a cap-and-trade plan to contain emissions, which some Republicans consider tantamount to a crippling tax.

Representative John Boehner, the House minority leader and who also appeared on “This Week,” said that Republicans had already offered alternatives to the administration’s economic-stimulus and budget proposals. As to the president’s plans to make health care affordable to more Americans — an issue that may loom over all others — Mr. Boehner said, “We’re working on a plan.”

“We are working on a plan”?  Hopefully it will be a better plan than their budget alternative.  So far their alternatives are just tired recycled BS from the 90’s.  But after 3 months of just saying NO, they still just say NO….that sounds like the only plan they have or will ever have.