So after the House GOP got what it said it wanted, negotiations on the budget and spending before re-opening the Government, they deliberately sabotaged those efforts today as the negotiations closed in on a deal that both sides were happy with in the Senate.
Now the House is going to try and pass a plan that will almost certainly not pass the Senate and would definitely be vetoed by the President. They are attaching a absurd clause to the a bill they are drafting that would remove the treasury's authority to use "Extraordinary measures" to avoid defaulting on the debt should the Republicans decide they want to use the Debt ceiling as a hostage again in February.
See without this clause, the Republicans can't extort more concessions from the Democrats until late in the summer which would mean too close to the 2014 elections for the GOP's comfort. Especially considering they have taken a double digit hammering in the polls for using it as a tool of extortion the past few weeks.
They want to get this debacle behind them and let people "forget" that they started this and renew the fight in January, but rest assured they have a plan in place already to make it look like the Democrats and Whitehouse want to default on the Debt this time. Or at lest they think the American people are that stupid.
They will say "We tried to raise the Debt ceiling and the Democrats said no!"
When in reality they are making sure that the bill that goes to the floor tonight is impossible for the Senate to accept, but want the American people to be unclear as to why.
Make no mistake. The GOP is trying to make the U.S. default and they are trying to make sure it gets pinned on the Democrats.
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