I wrote in comment 26: "Do you want the debt downgraded? That's different from the question of whether McConnell and Boehner should be replaced."
I meant credit rating downgraded, but I hve no problem replacing them. I think they should be replaced for a number of reasons.
What is it, a dozen times in the last decade that something was successfully negotiated with the raising of the debt ceiling?
But as I was trying to convey before, they already failed by it coming down to this. They play the same deceitful games of pretending that a slight slowing of a particular rate of growth is a ‘cut’ and they already gave up the store so many times over—e.g., funding Obamacare rather than delaying it, giving back the sequester, then trying to shave military pensions of all things, another obscene farm bill, another massive, bloated budget, etc., etc.—that they shouldn’t be given credit for yet one more cave in.
You said that four times in this thread alone .... and twice in the other one ..... I think that's called "spamming".
Besides, it's a false dichotomy. One needn't capitulate to Obama and the Media every time, in order to be a pillar of financial probity.
But please admit that capitulation and cowardice is what it is, that Boehner and the RNC are doing. Then let's move along.
Of course, it's a couple of other things, too, but by now you've proved you don't want to talk about that. Namely, that Chamber of Commerce bagmen wanted the GOP to roll over so their bond holdings wouldn't get rattled -- never mind that it's Obama's policies that are degrading the economy and the credit of the People of the United States.
So how come your favorite Chamber "K" Street bagmen never jump all over Obama the way they do the Tea Party?
Wanna dance now?