You guys are all missing the point here. You have a petulant child in the WH backed by petty adults in the House and Senate. So how do you handle this issue, simple. You lay it all at their feet. You don’t vote to raise the debt ceiling you vote to let the President and his democrat friends slit their own throat if they so desire. You know the Bambster won’t be able to resist the temptation to go ever higher with the debt and the Republicans can vote against it every time he tries. At the end of the day next November you have a record to run on, the Dems are for ever higher debt and the Republicans are against same. If the people really agree with us then they have a clear choice. They put someone new in the WH and give the Senate to the GOP and then we get to do what needs to be done.
Keep in mind the GOP is not just fight an intransigent president they are also fighting an adversarial press who is the tank for the Dems. If SS checks don’t go out it won’t be the WH who takes the hit.
Would I rather we have huge spending cuts and a balanced budget, yes, but remember we only control 1/3 of the government and almost none of the press.
Correct...and that is why this plan may very well be the best one.
Keep in mind that if Obama does want/need some Repub votes on the table he will have to send REAL cuts to Congress along with his request for a debt increase.
This, of course, is what the GOP has been asking for all along. McConnell may get it in the end but he will have had to force Obama slinking to Congress with tail between legs to do it.