McCONNELL WANTS TO PLAY GAMES WITH AMERICA'S FUTURE - WRITE AND TELL HIM 'NO'

Dear RedState Morning Briefing Subscriber:

Mitch McConnell just concluded a press conference declaring his intentions to have the Senate Republicans engage in a historic capitulation. So fearful of being blamed for a default, McConnell is proposing a compromise that lets Barack Obama raise the debt ceiling without making any spending cuts at all.

McConnell’s idea is to make the debt ceiling automatic unless Congress, by a 2/3 vote blocks the increase. Oh yes, he put a salve on it by dressing it up in tough talk that, to quote the Wall Street Journal, “[a] ‘eal solution’ to U.S. fiscal problems isn’t possible as long as President Barack Obama remains in office.” So since no “real solution” is possible, McConnell proposes to go Pontius Pilate and wash his hands of spending, blaming Obama while doing nothing himself.

Here is how the plan would work.

In a nutshell, the President would get to raise the debt ceiling three times in the next year at several billion bucks a pop without making any spending cuts unless two-thirds of both houses of Congress disagree. In his press conference, McConnell says he would not give the President “unilateral authority to make spending cuts on his own,” but this plan would allow the President to raise the debt ceiling pretty much automatically.

Much more information on this amazing capitulation can be found by clicking right here.  You'll find a rather appropriate suggestion for a response as well.

Sincerely yours, 
Erick Erickson
Editor, RedState.com