House Republicans Announce Big Plan to Ignore the Debt Ceiling and Hope It Goes Away

By: Jason EasleyJan. 22nd, 2013more from Jason Easley

After telling the American people how important the debt ceiling is for nearly two years, House Republicans have decided to now ignore the debt ceiling and hope it goes away.

The Washington Post reported that, “Forget about raising the federal debt limit. House Republicans are proposing to ignore it altogether — at least until May 18. The House plans to vote Wednesday on a measure that would leave the $16.4 trillion debt limit intact but declare that it “shall not apply” from the date the measure passes until mid-May. This approach — novel in modern times — would let Republicans avoid a potentially disastrous fight over the debt limit without actually voting to let the Treasury borrow more money.”

After telling the country repeatedly that we must do something to get our spending under control, House Republicans have decided that none of that matters anymore. They have also determined that the debt ceiling which was supposed to be part of their grand scheme of political leverage to get the spending cuts that they they crave can be forgotten about.

I think House Republicans are trying to break up with the debt ceiling. Instead of having a mature talk about why their relationship isn’t working, House Republicans have decided to avoid the debt ceiling’s calls and texts. By ignoring it, House Republicans are hoping that the debt ceiling will move on and go away.

House Republicans have not only caved on the debt ceiling. They are disavowing the entire concept of a debt ceiling.

The GOP leadership is now banking on the idiotic scheme of refusing to pay members of Congress until the Senate passes a budget. What is really going on here is that House Republicans are running out of hostages. Republicans could revive the debt ceiling crisis again over the summer, but now that they have admitted that the debt ceiling isn’t really all that important, there is nowhere for them to go on the issue.

House Republicans are not only waving the white flag. They are setting the flag on fire, and hoping that the American people forget that they ever started this whole debt ceiling fight to begin with.

This isn’t a retreat by House Republicans. It’s a complete surrender.

House Republicans Announce Big Plan to Ignore the Debt Ceiling and Hope It Goes Away was written by Jason Easley for PoliticusUSA.

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8 Responses to House Republicans Announce Big Plan to Ignore the Debt Ceiling and Hope It Goes Away

j

Jan. 22nd, 2013 at 1:16 pm

I am sure they will all vote to give more aid to Israel, a very wealthy country where people actually have health care, perhaps they will pay for it by abolishing help to poor people here who have no health insurance.
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- TigerLily
  
  Jan. 23rd, 2013 at 10:48 am
  
  Jindal already did that..he took care of those pesky seniors..and took their hospice care away! this party is beyond vile..they are beyond mean..they are beyond civilized..they are beyond shame..and their constituency even worse. Not once do you hear any of them saying anything to their party as they destroy their very lives and their childrens & grandparents. Will not. Cannot say one thing against the GOP as the GOP lets them die without hospice care, unemployment, SS, medicare or medicaid. And yet..check every single red state ..they gave tax breaks to the rich while they stripped the peoples pensions, pay, etc. THE GOP NEEDS TO BE REMOVED FROM OUR COUNTRY. They emulate the Mubaracks of the world. As they dictate in their red states they call this president a dictator. RW CONSTITUENCY PLEASE SHOUT AND DEMAND THAT YOUR PARTY –WHO NEVER MENTIONS YOU BUT HAS HELD YOUR FUTURE BACK–make them RESPECT YOU AS A HUMAN BEING. RIP THEM APART FOR LETTING OUR COUNTRY GO BROKE–THEY CREATED MOST OF THIS DEBT DON’T DENY IT PLEASE– AND AS THEY RUIN OUR CREDIT STANDING and blame our President. STOP THEIR INSANITY!!!! Before YOU become one of their NO NEED TO GET RID OF ASSAULT WEAPONS statistics!
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Tom

Jan. 22nd, 2013 at 2:07 pm

What losers. I am so tired of these idiots!
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- djchefron(Moderator)
  
  Jan. 22nd, 2013 at 4:34 pm
  
  You just might have to add to your list of losers
  Harry Reid has pulled filibuster reform off the table.And we wonder why they are called dummycrats.You can be quite sure if the rethugs get control of the senate they wont be so magnanimous towards the minority.Anyway here are their names who was against it
  –”Sens. Dianne Feinstein (Calif.), Max Baucus (Mont.), Carl Levin (Mich.), Joe Manchin (W.Va.) and Mark Pryor (Ark.),”
  Reid to lay out plans for filibuster reform
  thehill.com/homenews/sena...
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  - djchefron(Moderator)
    
    Jan. 22nd, 2013 at 7:21 pm
    
    I spoke to soon.The filibuster reform is still alive.Call your Democratic Senator and let them know this is what we want.No more obstruction.Get it done
    Call Reid’s office at 202-224-3542
    The President needs us to do this for his agenda
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harris stein

Jan. 22nd, 2013 at 3:23 pm

One would only hope the tea party republicans have finally grabbed hold of their ears, gave a good yank and, lo and behold, have pulled their heads out of the stinking sphincter they have been in for the past 4 years and are blinking at the bright white light of sunshine. This is why there has not been a budget. The ignorant Ryan budget might have balanced the books in ……. 2030? I fear however that celebration is still premature.

Why the stunt over congressional pay? Obviously to appease the ignorant tea party factions who held the country hostage for 2 years. We need real debate over the rising cost of health care instead of holding the elderly and disabled hostage. We need real debate over defense and military spending not sloganeering or phony patriotism. We need real debate over keeping the social safety net intact without overburdening small business. We need real debate about climate change instead of calling credentialed scientists liars.

The republicans still haven’t figured it out. Allowing ultra wealthy corporations and investors to treat workers and their families like slaves and treat disabled and retired people like useless bags of shit doesn’t work. People will rebel at that kind of nonsense. Hopefully the rebellion will continue at the ballot box and the extreme right fringe will realize violence is only permitted for self defense.
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- djchefron(Moderator)
  
  Jan. 22nd, 2013 at 4:15 pm
  
  What they cant do by the ballot box they will do the hook and crook.During the inauguration the Virginia state senate took advantage to redraw the district maps.The Senate was 20/20 but one Senator was in DC so they held the vote.As of right now they wrote out one Democratic district and in the future if all goes cording to plan the Republicans will have at least a 7 seat majority.
  
  This is nothing more than a coup.We may call their supporters ignorant but do not underestimate the leaders.They have studied history unfortunately for us they studied the wrong people.
  
  waldo.jaquith.org/blog/20...
  
  BTW as icing on the cake they did this also
  At the end of this wild day, the “Senate adjourned in memory of General Thomas J. ‘Stonewall’ Jackson,” according to the minutes of the session. Jan. 21 is the Confederate general’s birthday.
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1voice1vote

Jan. 22nd, 2013 at 8:03 pm

Rep. McDermott (D-WA) at Hearing on Debt Ceiling:
www.youtube.com/watch?fea...

“I have to tell you, listening to this hearing is like we are living in Alice in Wonderland,” McDermott said. “Here we are hearing from witnesses telling us how to use default creatively or use it to get some leverage or something — and the simple talking about it here is destructive.”

“The whole world is watching this hearing. It is the first hearing on this issue. The whole point of a society is to create and run a government to make order for people. People don’t like chaos and this hearing is about how to create chaos to get what you can’t get politically with votes.”

McDermott added that Republicans had created a manufactured crisis by attempting to use the federal debt ceiling as political leverage.
Raw Story (s.tt/1yO8P)
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