Mike Lee is a good guy and Vitter has always been a reliably conservative vote. Hatch is trying not to be TEA Partied next year.
I think this is one of the all too rare times Grahamnesty stands with us on principle.
WRT it's being a bad bill because the debt limit shouldn't be increased, that's true but even more important is it's bad because it sets up these scummy little committees which will be composed of 6 RINOs and 6 Rats and they will certainly strip the BBA out of it in the interest of compromise.
IMO we should have just said, "We passed a good bill--CCandB--and Reid's afraid to have a vote because his vulnerable senators cannot afford to vote against a balanced budget amendment that 75% of Americans WANT!!!"
The fact that Boehner coughed up this latest nasty blob and forced it through the house rather than go with the infinitely less bad and easier to sell to America first bill tells me the fix is in and we are about to be screwed by our "leadership". They are definitely chipping away at the TEA Party representatives...
Add this:
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_072911/content/01125106.guest.html
You know, all of this discussion apparently has worked. The Boehner 3.0 version has just been released. It’s a large PDF file. I’ve had just a brief chance to go through this. It’s 104 pages and they have to have so many pages just to have room for all the zeros, as they talk about all the trillions of dollars here. The word “trigger” does not appear one time in it. The word “taxes” shows up once but not in the context of raising them. “Balanced budget” shows up four times. Boehner 3.0 basically does: Would pave the way for the debt limit to be raised through the 2012 election in two chunks, but it would mandate that the second increase of the debt ceiling could only occur after a balanced budget amendment passed both chambers of Congress and went to the states for ratification. That’s the big difference in Boehner 3.0.
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but it would mandate that the second increase of the debt ceiling could only occur after a balanced budget amendment passed both chambers of Congress and went to the states for ratification. That’s the big difference in Boehner 3.0