Good!
And in the House, Pelosi has been told to get a 100+ votes to make up for the conservative Republicans who won’t support it.
This bill will have “NOT TEA PARTY” written all over it LOL!
Pretty much what many of the MSM is already promoting, including Bill O'Reilly on Fox News. Will never watch him again, and I've told him so.
Although it's against the principles of the grassroots TEA Party movement, some times I wish there were a few TEA Party outspoken leaders to articulate our Conservative position. The TEA Party gets beat up every day on the MSM, but there are few to argue the counter-points.
The best option would be for a few people like Lee to object but the bill to still pass and here’s why:
While I don’t believe there would be actual “default” as some say, if indeed there were disruptions in the DJIA, unemployment, or GDP (when GDP is barely running 1% and likely lower), a failed compromise that fails due to conservatives and liberals voting no while moderates vote yes, it will set the stage for 2012 to be a campaign of mushy, kumbaya moderation instead of strong conservative principles.
Lee is a good man but must tread lightly here...if he does this in protest but it still passes, he can argue as a favorable alternative in the Tea Party. If it fails, then the MSM will claim that whatever happens due to failure to act will be the fault of “extremist” Republican and Democrats (but mostly Republicans) which could hurt us in the long-term.