[Mike Darancette]

No. It doesn't make you a liberal. However, voting for one that you absolutely know won't pass could well mean you're nothing but a hypocrite trying to gain political cover.

Maybe it won't pass the first time or the second but we need to have the conversation out there. We can make it an issue in 2012 we can make the RATs wear it.

While we are at it we can do a cap bill too and that doesn't need a 2/3 majority. Just doing CCB in stages.

[Elle Bee]

another reason to repeal the XVII Amendment and the evil that continues by the direct election of US Senators

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[EternalVigilance]

Just doing CCB in stages.

CCB would have raised the debt ceiling #2.4 TRILLION. Why would anyone want to do it in stages?

Maybe it won't pass the first time or the second but we need to have the conversation out there.

If the Republicans had wanted a balanced budget they had it right in front of them. All they had to do was nothing. Don't raise the debt ceiling.

So, the rest of the charade impresses me not at all.