Mitch McConnell Gets Too Cute By Half

Mitch McConnell is proposing some proceduralist "solution" which seems to give Obama a lot of power to raise the debt limit near-unilaterally. Essentially he gets the power to raise the debt limit by simply sustaining a veto (meaning so long as 1/3 of either chamber is with him, he "wins" on this).

You know why he's doing this, right? He's doing it for politics. He's trying to make Obama own the unpopular increases in the debt limit all for himself. Well, Obama and the Democrats.

As political posturing, it's cute.

But there is more to this than politics. And it won't work. It will be seen as it what it is, Republicans giving Obama to raise the debt limit. So we will be on the hook too, and the debt will continue piling up.

Although... If we've apparently already decided to give up then I guess this lame shit is better than nothing.

posted by Ace at 02:50 PM

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