The Velveteen Debt Ceiling
It's often said that people in Washington aren't in touch with reality.
Perhaps that's not true. Maybe the trouble is that it's hard for those in Washington to agree on exactly what constitutes reality.
This clash over Washington's apparitions may never have been more evident than the current donnybrook over raising the debt ceiling. As this week progressed, it's grown increasingly harder to distinguish concreteness from the mirages and phantasms that now haunt the Twilight Zone which doubles as the nation's capital.
Who's Asking?
"The debt ceiling must be raised," said House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) at a press conference on Monday. "I agree with the president. We cannot allow the nation to default on its debt."
But by Tuesday morning, Boehner dropped this bombshell.
"This debt limit increase is his problem," said Boehner, handing off the hot potato to President Obama.
It's been subtle. But over the past few weeks, a number of Republicans have nuanced their description of the debt ceiling scenario as "the president's request to increase the debt ceiling" or "the request of President Obama's Treasury Secretary." It's true, the president and his Secretary of the Treasury historically ask Congress to increase the debt limit. However, by making Mr. Obama or Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner the source of this petition, Republicans artfully tilt the argument. Raising the debt ceiling is anathema to many Republicans (and a lot of Democrats, too). But the president already suffers a credibility problem with deficits and spending. So pinning the solicitation on the president is an easy way for the GOP to distance itself from this onerous task, lest voters blame them for raising the debt ceiling.
This dexterous pivot incensed Democrats.
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) was nearly apoplectic when a reporter asked a question about the GOP's sleight-of-hand.
"Yeah, I think it's absurd and I think dishonest," blurted Hoyer before the scribe even finished his query. "It seems to be totally a partisan premise that somehow extending the debt is to the benefit of President Obama."
Of course, there are some Republicans who aren't convinced the debt ceiling needs to be increased at all by August 2nd.
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including a faun, a griffin and a unicorn when describing what some tea party lawmakers want Congress to produce before they vote to raise the debt limit. There will be votes next week in the House and Senate on a balanced budget amendment.
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