[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

If you recall the Budget control act automatically extended the debt limit a second time this year to get O through the election.

I wonder what would have happened if the GOP house had refused to pass the budget control act. The GOP would still get the blame, and Dems and media would have shown outraged Americans who could not get passports, the US credit rating crashing, etc.

Pelosi might be speaker now. Not that Boehner is much of an improvement.

[Gilbo_3]

I wonder what would have happened if the GOP house had refused to pass the budget control act. The GOP would still get the blame, and Dems and media would have shown outraged Americans who could not get passports, the US credit rating crashing, etc.

gilbos plan would go a bit further...everybody show up to the House and finds a pocket Constitution on their table...

"we havent been very successful with budgeting, so from today, if its not explicitly in *here*, it doesnt get funded...therefore, TODAY, we'll historically slash the deficit by $3.5 T "... gavel and go home...

*IF* they would be willing to stay home and get real jobs, the principles could be revived...

take a meataxe to it, and let the chips fall where they may...

[sickoflibs]

RE :”I wonder what would have happened if the GOP house had refused to pass the budget control act. The GOP would still get the blame, and Dems and media would have shown outraged Americans who could not get passports, the US credit rating crashing, etc. Pelosi might be speaker now. Not that Boehner is much of an improvement.”

HA-HA, ddd, you speak heresy :)

But that still doesn't contradict my point, that they were going to increase it anyway and they will again. Its a fact of life, so why do many act so surprised.

But you gotta question why they would delayed cut their own sacred cow pork in the same bill, then praise it and call it a success and then the next year act shocked that the same cuts were scheduled and then run against them like they were Obama. If anything this was counter-productive and made them look stupid,

I assume this was just to temporarily ward off primary challenges because there is no other rational explanation.