For every action there’s an opposite and equal reaction. Feckless GOPers in The House may be in for a rude awakening come primary season.
LA Times reports Right-wing and tea-party groups already have House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) on their enemies list, thanks to his stance on last year's bipartisan budget agreement. One can only wonder what will happen to the rest of the HouseGOP leadership now that many of them have voted in favor of a -- gasp -- debt-limit increase with no strings attached.The voteTuesday was 221 to 201, with 28 Republicans joining 193 Democrats in the yes column. Only two Democrats voted no, alongside 199 Republicans.Even some tea-party affiliated Republicans had endorsed the idea of a "clean" debt-limit bill on the assumption that it would pass mainly with Democratic votes. That way, they reasoned, Republicans could wash their hands of the distasteful affair and blame Democrats for piling on more debt.Officially, though, tea-party talking heads were outraged at the vote.“We recognize that Speaker John Boehner was unable to corral a House majority to insist on some budget reform," said Tea Party Express Executive Director Taylor Budowich in a news release. "Unfortunately, that means the GOP has lost yet another opportunity to prove to the American people that the Republican Party will fight to stop Washington's reckless spending. Instead, they focus voters on the need to continue to defeat incumbents who are unwilling to stand up and fight for the very Americans that sent them to D.C. in the first place."Maybe so, but really, the debt limit is just ministerial. Republicans and Democrats jointly voted to pile on more debt in December (through the $1-trillion budget resolution, which was about half funded by borrowing) and in January (through an enormous spending bill for fiscal 2014, which also relied on borrowed dollars). Raising the debt limit simply lets Washington keep its commitments and pay its creditors.
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It’s time to cut some RINOs into little bitty pieces!
