Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Sunday indicated that Republicans would pass legislation to raise the debt ceiling before the U.S. defaults on its national debt on March 15.
“I made it very clear after the November election that we’re certainly not going to shut down the government or default on the national debt,” McConnell said on CBS’ “Face the Nation” when asked if Republicans would lift the debt ceiling.
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew on Friday called on Congress to raise the debt ceiling “without controversy or brinksmanship” before the March 15 deadline.
McConnell did not promise, however, that Republicans would not use the debt limit increase to achieve additional policy goals.
“We’ll figure some way to handle that and hopefully it might carry some other important legislation that we can agree on in connection with it,” McConnell said of the debt limit increase.
McConnell’s weasel words are weaker than usual here.
Republicans don’t hate government – they just hate something they can’t do.
“We’ll figure out some way to do our jobs.”
Typical incompetent Teabagger.
I believe that Obama and the Dems are really enjoying that they can shove telephone poles up the asses of Boehner and McConnell and watch them squirm in agony from having to screw over their Teabagger base while being forced to support Obama. So go ahead, Turtle Boy. Advance a debt limit bill that isn’t clean and is full of your greatest policy wishes, and start sweating when Obama and the Dems refuse to advance it and nearly the entire country is ready to blame YOU for a calamitous shutdown that severely damages the economy. Go ahead, motherfuckers! I hope it turns out just as well for you as your attempt to tie the immigration EO to the DHS bill. Good times!
I guess the idea of having someone introduce a bill raising the debt ceiling to a specific number in the House, getting it put onto the floor regardless of the position of the a majority of the majority, passed by a simple majority vote, sent to the Senate where it is again speedily sent to the floor and passed by a simple majority vote and then sent to the President for his signature is too bizarre to be within his contemplation.