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If the dems didn’t like it it most likely was not raising it.

It did raise it. Almost two and a half trillion dollars.

Rep. Paul Broun:

“I gave my word to my constituents in Georgia and to the rest of the American people that I would not vote for any bill that increases the debt limit. Although the Cut, Cap, and Balance bill is a step in the right direction, it still raises the debt ceiling by $2.4 trillion, and we simply cannot afford it.
“Also missing from the Cut, Cap, and Balance bill is the urgency to pay down the debt by immediately reducing the outrageous spending levels to which Washington has become so accustomed. Unfortunately, the cuts outlined in Cut, Cap, and Balance take effect over a period of ten years. We no longer have ten years to spare – it’s too little, too late.
“Undoubtedly, we have to cap spending and we must enact a balanced budget amendment, but Congress can get these tasks done without raising the debt ceiling. I have introduced bills to both lower the debt ceiling and to balance the budget.
“We’ve been down this road before. Administrations of the past have agreed to raise the debt ceiling on a contingency that cuts would be made in future budgets – but those cuts never materialized. It’s long past time to stop obligating our constitutional duties – along with our budgetary problems – to both future Congresses and future generations.”

Boehner has been for raising it all along. He lectured the Tea Party freshman about how they were going to have to be grownups and raise it the first day they arrived on the Hill.

Speaker John Boehner, from November 2010:

“I’ve made it pretty clear to them that as we head into next year it’s pretty clear that Congress is going to have to deal with this,” Boehner said of need to raise the level of debt the United States will be allowed to shoulder. “We’re going to have to deal with it as adults. Whether we like it or not, the federal government has obligations and we have obligations on our part.”

There isn't a single plan that has been proffered by anyone that does not raise the debt ceiling. It's all a big scam.