This Is Stupid

Now Boner has changed his bill to include a Constitutional Amendment on a balanced budget so that he can garner the necessary tea party votes to get it passed in the House. Obviously, his only interest is in getting his bill passed in just the House and not in reaching concessions to get the debt ceiling raised in time to avoid default. This is totally politics at work, with nothing to do with what is needed for this country right now.

He knows there is no way a bill of this sort will pass the Senate or get signed by Obama. That has been made abundantely clear to him, so all he is doing is passing a bill that will not fly so he can stand on his political stump and point fingers at the Senate and Obama for not getting it done. If he really cared about the US he would have changed his plan to concede more to the left, get votes from the left, pass and hopefully have something the Senate and Obama can live with. I am not saying big concessions were needed but he did need to get rid of the stupid "let's do this again in six months" provision. Seriously, do we need or want to do this again in six months? But no, he gives in to the conservative right simply to get a bill passed for political points for next years election. I suspect it will backfire as we are not idiots and will not vote to return idiots to office next year.

Mind you, I am no Obama fan but think he has moved more towards concessions to get this done than Boner head and now Boner is going the opposite direction. In a negotiation, such a move simply ends the discussion.