But it might just prove to be successful. Instead of cleanly upping the debt limit, it creates a series of almost completely symbolic song and dance routines for Obama to go through to enact the increase. McConnell knows he and Boehner can't screw the rich superbase of the GOP, and the rest of the country (and the world), by forcing us into default and ruining our credit, so he's proposing a Pontius Pilate routine whereby the GOP washes its hands of the debt limit. Somehow I doubt the fanatics that they've encouraged and created will buy it.
If this "procedure" doesn't come with any strings attached, i.e., it doesn't require spending cuts to be passed with it, I think the Democrats should jump on it. The time window for the first "resolution of disapproval" will have to be very short, or there will have to be a small increase in the debt limit that happens automatically, though.
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