Well, the number of sellouts appear to be rising exponentially. The fact that the Speaker actually took the political calculus of the Republicans being blamed for a default and ensuing downgrade into consideration--for shame!
Boehner and McConnell have screwed this up from the jump.
They held the ability to deal themselves a royal flush and didn’t do it.
All they had to do was send CCB to the Senate and follow it up with H.R. 2402 and they won no matter what happened.
H.R. 2402 would pass the House with broad bi-partisan votes. Few House members would vote against assuring the military, Social Security, and the interest gets paid. They don’t want election ads in their district saying they voted against that.
Send HR 2402 to the Senate and go in front of every TV camera you can find and say the Senate now has a bi-partisan bill that assures the SS and Medicare checks will go out the military will get paid and the nation will not default. Let Dirty Harry table that bill.
Then just keep every Republican hammering on the fact that Republicans and REASONABLE Democrats protected seniors, our military and our creditors and extremists in the Senate are refusing to even vote on it.
Instead Boehner has this thing FUBAR.