Libtards have an unlimited supply of stupid political gimmicks.
The takeaway from the Bluff-It Rule kabuki was meant to sucker just enough GOP RINOs into doing just what you advocated, and thusly enrage/turn off the Tea Party for this election cycle.
True enough. But they've spend months on this one, and have put so much effort and PR into it, that you take the wind completely out of their sails by calling their bluff. If the response to passing it is another stupid little gimmick, that'll be about the last one they can fit in before the election, and you call them on it again.
The problem for the GOP here is that I don't think the vast majority of Americans know how little money this will raise. It sounds to most people like if you do this, it should raise tons of money to close the deficit, and so how can you reasonably oppose it? Of course, the truth is that it only raises a tiny amount of money, but I'll just bet that most people don't know that. So if you pass it, and force it to stand on its own tiny merits in the light of day, it actually exposes how petty and unserious the Administration really is about the deficit. It turns their own political weapon against them.
The takeaway from the Bluff-It Rule kabuki was meant to sucker just enough GOP RINOs into doing just what you advocated, and thusly enrage/turn off the Tea Party for this election cycle.
Then that's the fault of those Tea Partiers who can't see more than two inches in front of their noses. Like it or not, elections are about politics, and whoever plays politics the best usually wins. Handing the Dems an issue that likely will play well in purple states, involving a bill whose real impact is negligible, is simply foolish. It's cutting off our nose to spite our face.