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The House of Representatives voted recently to not support the President's "war" over Libya, but refused to vote to de-fund the "war." President Obama should take that lesson to heart: agree that he does not support raising the debt limit, but then ask the House to raise the debt limit after passing a resolution they do not favor doing so. Politics as usual.
Republicans (and Democrats) voted to raised the debt ceiling 7 times under Bush. Did they not know what they were voting for those 7 times? All of a sudden they're against it?
ReplyDeleteInteresting, isn't it? And they accuse Senator Kerry of flip-flopping.
ReplyDeleteAs noted, I think they should pass a non-binding resolution that they are on record that they won't raise the debt ceiling, and then vote to raise it.
Or they could change the definition of a "debt" and a "ceiling." Lots of ways to solve this problem.