[Major Matt Mason]

Maybe McConnell is trying to put Obama on the hook for the debt limit increase. It might be a good idea, but the media won't let the GOP get away with trying to pin it on Obama. They'll simply attack the GOP as they always do, and the GOP will wimper and meekly back down. Best to do the right thing and simply let the deadline pass.

[mwl8787]

No, the solution to avoid blame is not to let the deadline pass. That approach would guarantee blame on the GOP.

The House should pass the plan endorsed by NRO - a $100 billion debt ceiling increase, with new authority directed to paying SS and related benefits — coupled with a $100 billion spending reduction in discretionary domestic spending.

Obama has said he would not support a short-term deal. CALL HIS BLUFF. He is lying.

Send this House-enacted bill to the Senate. Reid cannot bury it; too many RAT senators up for re-election next year, and they will fold like cheap suits (Manchin, Nelson, Tester, and many more).

Then, you think Obama’s gonna veto grandma’s SS check?

Indeed not.

It is time for some stones, not unilateral surrender.