Yesterday, mojo11 made a funny comment in a diary about Speaker Boehner trying to have it both ways by using Dems to raise the debt ceiling, and then attaching conditions to it. Mojo11 called it Boehninger's cat. For those of you not familiar, it's a thought experiment by Erwin Schrodinger that describes an aspect of Quantum physics where a cat in a box is both dead and alive at the same time.
Well, have you noticed how many Republicans in the house and Senate are running around, and under anonymity, are telling reporters how they support a clean CR and it's all the fault of that small minority of Tea Party Republicans? And notice how they almost unanimously vote against a clean CR in the Senate, and vote for a highly conditional CR in the house?
I call Bull Shit!!
Why in the world are we letting the media give these people a free ride on saying one thing, and then voting a different way? If this is actually true, that they are voting out of fear of the minority in their party, then they are complete scum bags for voting to do serious damage to their country in order to keep their jobs, and they shouldn't be anywhere near a position of power and should resign immediately.
What if Boehner won't bring up a clean CR on the floor of the house, not out of fear of passing, but out of fear of failing? What if there really aren't 17 Republicans in the house who will choose their country over their jobs and party? It would be a complete disaster! It would mean we are almost certain to go over the debt ceiling cliff. Markets would crash and President Obama would be faced with invoking the 14th Amendment.
So Bull Shit. The Republicans in the house and Senate don't get to have it both ways! They don't get to be against government shutdowns and failing to raise the debt ceiling, and vote to do exactly that at the same time. The next media story you read about most of the Republicans are good guys, it's just that small minority over there that are the bad guys, call em on it! The Republican party has almost unanimously and repeatedly voted to put our country in economic danger, and now they should own it until they prove otherwise!