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Tea Party Rejects John Boehner’s Debt Ceiling Limit Plan
The Tea Party says thumbs down…so consider it dead. This is the way laws are made in the United Tea Party States of America these days.
5 Responses to “Tea Party Rejects John Boehner’s Debt Ceiling Limit Plan”
No need to overreact or mis-react. [sigh]
We’re simply closer to raising the debt limit independently of the budget plan and agreement that many had sought or hoped for.
If there is any way to stop the debt limit from being increased the GOP will do it. They will not allow their leverage for extortion to be taken away from them. What it does to the country is irrelevant to them. Nothing matters but getting Obama to the Tea Party crowd and by extension to the GOP that has tied their fate to the most extreme members of their party.
Oooohhh, another pledge. Just what the country needs to get us out of this mess. What’s sad and hilarious at the same time is Boehner referring to the Cut, Cap and Cripple proposal as bipartisan.
I think you are probably right DLS. Boehner will find enough Republicans to vote with the Democrats. He will lose his Speakers job but at this point that might be a relief – he has to be tired of herding cats. In the Senate seven Republicans will vote for cloture and then they will all vote against it.
Boehner and Reid should ignore the pretty figurehead (who gave such a stupid first speech to the nation last night) and get together to craft some kind of plan both sides can live with. Done.
The Dems have been as bad or worse than the GOP (notably with their craziness about entitlement reform, even more than class warfare tax increases*), but obviously the hard-core GOP is quite bad (which is why I haven’t defended them, and excoriated the more mindless “growth through tax cuts” stuff they keep prattling). Maybe Boehner will relinquish the speakership, and get relief, indeed, Ron.
* Reid stopped that nonsense. Incredibly, Obama revived it in his speech last night. Is this another example of him and his people being out of touch? Where the hell has he been the past two weeks? Not everyone is a loser who accepts blaming Bush still, falls for the misuse of “balance” — what smarminess! — or still wants scummy class-warfare tax-increase gimmicks. [sigh]