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It Is Time To Burn Mitch McConnell In Effigy. He Goes Pontius Pilate On the Debt Ceiling.
Mitch McConnell Just Proposed the “Pontius Pilate Pass the Buck Act of 2011”
Posted by Erick Erickson (Profile)
Tuesday, July 12th at 2:35PM EDT
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Mitch McConnell is right now talking about making a historic capitulation. So fearful of being blamed for a default, McConnell is proposing a compromise that lets Barack Obama raise the debt ceiling without making any spending cuts at all.
Consider sending McConnell a weasel as testament to his treachery. His address is 601 W. Broadway, Room 630, Louisville, KY 40202 and the phone number is (502) 582-6304.
McConnell’s idea is to make the debt ceiling automatic unless Congress, by a 2/3 vote blocks the increase. Oh yes, he put a salve on it by dressing it up in tough talk that, to quote the Wall Street Journal, “[a] ‘eal solution’ to U.S. fiscal problems isn’t possible as long as President Barack Obama remains in office.” So since no “real solution” is possible, McConnell proposes to go Pontius Pilate and wash his hands of spending, blaming Obama while doing nothing himself.
Here is how the plan would work.
In a nutshell, the President would get to raise the debt ceiling three times in the next year at several billion bucks a pop without making any spending cuts unless two-thirds of both houses of Congress disagree. In his press conference, McConnell says he would not give the President “unilateral authority to make spending cuts on his own,” but this plan would allow the President to raise the debt ceiling pretty much automatically.As the Politico notes,
Senate Republicans are actively pursuing a new plan under which the debt ceiling would grow in three increments over the remainder of this Congress unless lawmakers approve a veto-proof resolution of disapproval.
In effect lawmakers would be surrendering the very power of approval that the GOP has used to force the debt crisis now. But by taking the disapproval route, Republicans can shift the onus more onto the White House and Democrats since a two-thirds majority will be needed to stop any increase that President Barack Obama requests.
Yes, instead of putting the burden on the White House, McConnell would make it damn near impossible to block a debt ceiling increase. We’ve seen this before. The House once had the Gephardt rule that required the debt ceiling vote be attached to a more popular measure so members of Congress could escape a tough vote.
Consequently, the debt ceiling has gone up to $14 trillion without Congress ever having to make a tough choice about debt.
And now Mitch McConnell wants to make it even easier by allowing Congress to go through a dog and pony show of feigned cuts that never get cut while allowing escalation of our national debt. So much for accusing Barack Obama of smoke and mirrors.
2014 cannot come soon enough to destroy the political future of this weasel.
Consider sending McConnell a weasel as testament to his treachery. His address is 601 W. Broadway, Room 630, Louisville, KY 40202 and the phone number is (502) 582-6304.
Unbelievable. Just when I start thinking the republicans might stand up to Obama...
The site is defective. The entire top of the frame goes black and you can’t read the text. THAT’S why you avoid unnecessary excerpts to blogs. They are often retarded as far as readability.
This is so disappointing.
McConnell needs to be thrown out of office.
Huh! Did not McConnell just say “real solution is not possible while Obama is President” or something to that effect. So who is correct?
Now "man bites dog" is REAL news.
Why just in effigy?
The inevitable outcome of any “negotiation” in DC: The Democrats propose to tear down the Washington Monument, and the Republicans respond with a plan to do it in three stages.
Get the rope.
What? No way. I’m gonna have to see it in writng, signed and notarized before I make any assumptions based on some verbal blathering at a press conference before I’ll pass judgement. If this is true, as redstate.com describes it, here is the only explanation: The senate leadership must think there is no way they will not be blamed if there is a democrat-orchestrated shutdown, and they must capitulate because anything other than total capitulation would lead to the feared shutdown, in which case the consequences to the republicans because of the shutdown would be worse than the consequences from capitulation. At least, that is the only explanation I can think of.
Of course we did ... but McConnell is simply being practical. If the country defaults, Obama and his media lapdogs will place the blame squarely on the republicans and Obama waltzes to re-election. Today Obama played the "Social Security Checks won't go out!" card (so much for the concept of a trust fund!). McConnell has simply come to the realization (in my view, correct) that real reform WILL NOT happen with Obama in the White House and the long term solution is to get Obama out of the White House.
The republicans are merely doling out enough rope for zero to well and truly hang himself.
If true Palin will go 3rd party and I will join up. That would be the death of the GOP. I do not believe this is true. Even the GOP is not that stupid.
Far from it.
Do you often post "news" items without direct quotes?
Guess I'll be chasing Pepcid after dinner.
I know we kind of thought something like this might happen. Maybe he has something up his sleeve.
It is also true that while holding the title of "Head Rino In Charge Of Other Rinos" in the senate, he must still get cooperation from the House to move forward with anything.
It is up to us to pressure those elected last November to stand tall and firm and resist any deals "brokered" by the "HRICOOR".
Good luck Mitch-y, yer gonna need it. And by November of 2012, you can fade away to enjoy all the perks you've voted for yourself. Kentucky will have to find a true conservative replacement for you.
And the way we'll know that we've found the ideal candidate is if you refuse to endorse him/her. Kind of a "seal of approval" don'tchaknow!
Make him pay in the next election. He saw his pal McBackstabber come out okay in his election. Had John not been re-elected Mitch would not be doing this.
The Rinos join the DNC in loving the idea of raising taxes and keeping Federal power as big and unconstitutional as they can make it. They are regressives.
However, ole Mitch is in the Senate and the Senate Rinos have already let it be known they love Barack and hate the Tea Party.