Six reasons why Obama will not get a clean debt-ceiling hike
Garrett is absolutely correct. As this American Action Forum table going back to 1993 shows, the debt limit is almost always raised in the context of some other deficit reduction/budget process legislation. No one likes to sign off on borrowing more money without getting at least some measure of fiscal responsibility in return. In 2010, for example, Blue Dog Democrats forced then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi to pass PAYGO rules in exchange for their votes to raise the debt limit. Demanding a price for a debt limit hike vote is absolutely business as normal in Washington. …
If voting to raise the debt were easy, Majority Leader Harry Reid would have already passed a clean debt limit hike through the Senate. He hasn’t. And there are six reasons why he will not be passing a clean debt limit hike anytime soon. Those reasons are:
1. Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont.
2. Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska
3. Sen. Kay Hagan, D-N.C.
4. Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D.
5. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La.
6. Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark.
The six Democratic Senators listed above are all up for reelection in 2014 and they all hail from states that Mitt Romney won.
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7. The Senate in general
8. The House in general
9. The 0bama regime in general.
And the Number Ten Reason that there will not get a clean debt ceiling bill:
10. It takes place in Washington DC, where EVERYTHING is dirty.
LegendHasIt on January 15, 2013 at 6:42 PM
The House shouldn’t submit for a vote anything more than a daily debt ceiling hike until Obama submits his budget as he is required to do by law — Title 31, Subtitle II – The Budget Process.
I’ll provide a link if someone wants it. It has some interesting stuff in it, like the President being required to submit recommendations to reconcile spending and taxes so as to balance the budget submitted.
Dusty on January 15, 2013 at 6:42 PM
LOL…Obama will get everything he wants…even if he doesn’t get it. He will declare victory, the media will declare victory, the average US citizen will see it as another victory for Obama and the Republicans will be huddled at the 19th hole of the golf course trying to figure out the 144-character rebuttal they will post on Twitter.
albill on January 15, 2013 at 7:35 PM
R’s will cave. They always do and A$$hole knows it. Gotta give Him props for that.
Dingbat63 on January 15, 2013 at 7:42 PM
That’s right, and Romney hardly spent any money campaigning in these states (couldn’t) and produced a double digit win.
In fact Mitt Romney, it turns out, beat McCain’s record for turn out. After the election the MSM wanted conservatives to believe certain things, and one of them was that Obama got a landslide. They still talk that way. But Obama did not get as many votes as he did last time, and Romney got more votes than McCain did.
http://spectator.org/archives/2012/12/03/romney-beats-mccain
And in two states, Indiana and Missouri, Romney came in with a final count of 65% and 55% respectively, winning along with other republicans like Mike Pence. Sadly in those two elections, Akin and Mourdock were left behind. I heard they were not conservative enough, but there are probably real reasons people on the ground there understand, best be honest about whatever happened, maybe they were just dumb candidates.
Fleuries on January 15, 2013 at 7:59 PM