Take A Vote, Boehner

The lunacy has at last roused me out of my stu­por. I’m going to inau­gu­rate my new blog next week, but thought I’d actu­ally stretch my legs with a brief rant today, then vow to spend the rest of the week on my Dan Sav­age rebut­tal – or addenda. So today, the lat­est talks have the House putting together one debt ceil­ing pro­posal and the Sen­ate putting together another – mean­ing no talk of com­pro­mise. With­out spilling more ink on this trav­esty, bring a vote, Boehner. We’ve got a pretty good idea of what the Sen­ate can and can’t do, but there is really no evi­dence that the GOP House major­ity has any way to pass any debt ceil­ing hike – lat­est today is that they are try­ing to pass a 6-month ceil­ing hike, and add some of their absurd cut, cap and bal­ance items to the mix. To that I say: go ahead. Show us that there is any­thing that raises the debt ceil­ing that you have a major­ity behind, and show it the old-fashioned way – by a dang vote in the House of Representatives.

There are too many repub­li­cans who have sworn they will not vote for a debt ceil­ing hike under any cir­cum­stances. Can’t think of any House Democ­rats who are going to jump at the chance to relive this argu­ment again in Jan­u­ary, and take as a reward severe cuts to Medicare and Social Secu­rity, that have never been debated, and what­ever other ran­dom red meat they throw into this hasty bill. I’m wager­ing that they’ve screwed up the rhetoric so high on the right, there is no GOP major­ity in the House for any­thing that avoids a default. They’ll be left say­ing they’ll allow the White House to raise the debt limit by itself – that’s a real pro­file in courage moment.

Take a Vote, Boehner. I Dare Ya.