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Redstate
This is the
Strategy. Now Do It.
By Erick Erickson
October 9th, 2013
Conservatives need to push the debt ceiling fight off the front burner
to after Christmas.
Republican Leaders are begging us to merge the continuing resolution
fight and debt ceiling fight. They covet this with all their mind and
heart.
They do not want a stand alone fight on Obamacare. They want to
conflate it with the debt ceiling so they can do a grand bargain and
leave Obamacare alone.
Consider Rep. Paul Ryan’s op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. He wants a
grand bargain and not once mentions Obamacare. Not once.
Friends, as I noted the other day, we lose everything if we merge the
continuing resolution and debt ceiling fights.
What’s more, if the debt ceiling gets pushed to just before Christmas,
the GOP will collapse in that fight just like they did with Obamacare
in 2009.
I think somebody like Steve Scalise, who chairs the Republican Study
Committee, needs to propose a short-term debt limit for a few weeks and
attach to it the Full Faith and Credit Act that ensures the Treasury
Department prioritizes interest payments in the event the debt limit is
ever not increased. This would buy us some time to finish the fight to
defund Obamacare and set us up well to fight the next long-term debt
limit increase to the death by removing some of the President’s scare
tactics. How do Republican Leaders not adopt and push such a proposal?
How does Obama not accept it without looking completely unreasonable?
For the rest of this article and more, go to Redstate
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