Plus a vote on the BBA. Yes it’ll fail but it puts everyone on the record and people will still be pissed come election time over it.
Considering the reps only hold 1/3rd of the government, this isn’t that bad of a deal. I do wish they would have held for a limit so Obama would have to go through this during mid-2012.
Let’s see the details but if this is true, Boehner and the TEA-party related reps did well.
“Yes it’ll fail but it puts everyone on the record and people will still be pissed come election time over it.”
I wouldn’t be so sure that it’d fail. Many states are mandated by their constitutions to balance their budgets and those that do are faring much better than those that are now going bankrupt (or already are).
The people will make their wishes known, probably loudly. And coming into an election year, we may very well see the necessary majorities vote for a BBA.