re: #151 Lidane

What’s the problem with a 14-month extension again? That would’ve tabled all this debt limit shit until December 2014. Both parties could’ve taken a breath and not had to deal with this crap again until after the midterms.

The problem is that all the Senate GOP would have done in voting for that bill would have been to drive an even greater wedge between them and their House fellows. Any Senate bill that resolves the crisis is either going to have to be a Republican bill or a bipartisan one. No Senate Democratic bill is going to be allowed a floor vote in the House.