“Boehner “flushed” the Tea Party down the toilet the first day the freshmen arrived on the Hill, when he lectured them on how they had to be “adults” and support raising the debt ceiling.”
Share your distrust of Boehner, but a supporting link would be useful. I have never heard this before, and it points to a bias on his part from the get-go.
Speaker John Boehner, from November 2010:
“I’ve made it pretty clear to them [the Tea Party freshment] that as we head into next year it’s pretty clear that Congress is going to have to deal with this,” Boehner said of need to raise the level of debt the United States will be allowed to shoulder. “We’re going to have to deal with it as adults. Whether we like it or not, the federal government has obligations and we have obligations on our part.”
http://www.aolnews.com/2010/11/20/tea-party-freshmen-in-congress-face-reality-check/
WASHINGTON (Nov. 20, 2010) — New Republican House members had barely settled in for freshman orientation this week when their leader delivered a disorienting message.
Sure you campaigned to slash out-of-control government spending, incoming Speaker of the House John Boehner said, but one of the first votes you will cast will be to raise the debt ceiling.
“We’re going to have to deal with it as adults,” the head of the Republican establishment said. “Whether we like it or not, the federal government has obligations and we have obligations on our part.”
Add that together with the fact that every single plan proposed by either party raises the debt ceiling, including the vaunted “cut, cap and balance” bill, which would raise the debt ceiling by $2.4 TRILLION dollars, and it doesn’t take a genius to understand what this has been about all along.
I’ve told folks throughout this charade: There’s only one thing you have to watch, and that is the total amount the legislation raises the debt ceiling.
Everything else is nothing but smoke, designed to provide somebody political cover for the next election cycle.