This Debt Ceiling Fight Isn’t About Spending
By DAVID FIRESTONE, NYT
Senator Mitch McConnell said today that raising the debt ceiling represents an opportunity to demand that President Obama “do something about the debt.” He said that was the “view of virtually every Republican.”
But that’s not the view of hard-line conservatives in the House, who are trying to prevent the passage of a debt-ceiling increase as well as a temporary spending measure to keep the government open past the end of the month.
They’re not talking about the debt. If they were, the House and Senate might have something to negotiate over. Up to now, the House has refused to even sit at the same table as the Senate and discuss ways to reduce the long-term debt (one of which, obviously, would be higher revenues).
No, House conservatives are narrowly focused on achieving one impossible thing: the end of health care reform.
(More here.)
Senator Mitch McConnell said today that raising the debt ceiling represents an opportunity to demand that President Obama “do something about the debt.” He said that was the “view of virtually every Republican.”
But that’s not the view of hard-line conservatives in the House, who are trying to prevent the passage of a debt-ceiling increase as well as a temporary spending measure to keep the government open past the end of the month.
They’re not talking about the debt. If they were, the House and Senate might have something to negotiate over. Up to now, the House has refused to even sit at the same table as the Senate and discuss ways to reduce the long-term debt (one of which, obviously, would be higher revenues).
No, House conservatives are narrowly focused on achieving one impossible thing: the end of health care reform.
(More here.)
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