Editorial titled “A path to victory for Republicans” opines: “The conservative stand against government spending and President Obama’s heavy-handed health care ‘reform’ make for good public policy. Continuing the current impasse over them, however, does not.
Republicans need to find a way out of this. One way would be to have the House pass a short-term government-funding measure and increase the debt limit through, say, mid-January.
This would put the onus on the president to follow through with his promise this week to negotiate over ‘a range of topics,’ including health care, once the government is reopened and the debt ceiling is increased.”
WATCHDOG: United States Constitutions: “The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow money on the credit of the United States;..”
The editor goes through intellectual contortions trying to defend the indefensible. The issue is simple: It is the Constitutional obligation of Congress to pay the nations debts.
Given the dire consequences of having shut down the federal government and perhaps later defaulting on debt, it is the responsibility of the Speaker of the House to allow the members to vote up or down the Senate bill, otherwise referered to as the unamended “clean bill.”
A wag of the tail for the editor who is giving conscientious advice while an attempting at the same time not to let down his conservative readers.
Hopefully right wing ideologue Rep. Joe Pitts will take note.
