Dangerous dealings with the Default Caucus
By Dana Milbank,
WashPost
Friday, July 22, 5:46 AM
Twenty Republican lawmakers crowded the Senate TV studio this week to issue a threat: Meet their demands, or they will force the United States to default.
The only way to prevent the catastrophe, these Tea Party faithful said, was for the Senate to pass, and the president to sign, their plan to permanently cap spending at levels last seen in 1966, before Medicare made the nation soft.
“We want to make very clear: This is not just the best plan on the table for addressing the debt limit -- this is the only plan,” first-term Sen. Mike Lee (Utah) said, vowing that “we’re otherwise going to be blowing past the debt-limit deadline.”
“We have a solution,” said Sen. Jim DeMint (S.C.). “It’s the only one that can be passed before the August 2nd deadline.”
(More here.)
WashPost
Friday, July 22, 5:46 AM
Twenty Republican lawmakers crowded the Senate TV studio this week to issue a threat: Meet their demands, or they will force the United States to default.
The only way to prevent the catastrophe, these Tea Party faithful said, was for the Senate to pass, and the president to sign, their plan to permanently cap spending at levels last seen in 1966, before Medicare made the nation soft.
“We want to make very clear: This is not just the best plan on the table for addressing the debt limit -- this is the only plan,” first-term Sen. Mike Lee (Utah) said, vowing that “we’re otherwise going to be blowing past the debt-limit deadline.”
“We have a solution,” said Sen. Jim DeMint (S.C.). “It’s the only one that can be passed before the August 2nd deadline.”
(More here.)
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