So are Democrats going to act like this when a GOP president needs the debt ceiling raised?

[GOPBasher]

Will Democrats make demands such as taxing the rich more in return for raising the ceiling? That's the question.

[CleanGreenFuture]

1. No. The difference this time is that a shock doctrine event is upon us.

[rucky]

25. and a bipartisan one, at that.

[The Magistrate]

2. This Is The Problem, Sir: An Adversarial System Depends On Both Sides Fighting

[Atman]

3. Of course not. They'll bend over and ask what type of lube the Repubs would like.

:(

[Ezlivin]

11. Republicans don't need lube

They just jam it in.

Boom goes the dynamite.

[scheming daemons]

4. No.... for the most part, Democrats are grown ups that care about the country

[former9thward]

23. Our party (including Obama) voted against raising the debt ceiling in 2007.

[scheming daemons]

26. Enough Democrats voted for it to allow it to pass....

If they needed the votes, they would've gotten them.

[elleng]

5. No, we won't 'act like this' because we're rational and not spiteful.

Unfortunately this often puts us in quandaries such as you suggest.

[polichick]

6. Wouldn't work because a Republican prez would never adopt the Dem narrative...

And he or she would use every tool in the toolbox.

[daa]

7. Nope they will bend over just like they did for Reagan and chimpy

[vi5]

8. Nope........

Not as long as any of our current pathetic leaders are in charge.

Of course the Republican president won't need to, because a "Democratic" president will have done the lion's share of the work for him.

[hfojvt]

9. at the risk of repeating myself, again

they already did http://journals.democraticunderground.com/hfojvt/149

[Drale]

10. Theres probably not going to be a debt ceiling after August 2nd

because its going to be declared unconstitutional. Theres not going to be a deal, because the GOP will never let it happen.

[slipslidingaway]

12. No, there were at least two instances where raising the debt ceiling was tied to more war funds...

while bush was president, never heard anything from the Dems.

:(

[eilen]

13. It would never have gotten this far.

At the first sign of resistance, the Republican president would invoke the 14th amendment, raise it anyway and sneer at the Democrats "whaddya gonna do?" Then tell the American people such action was needed for the nation's security.

The Democrats would then have hearings or some other expensive timesink and might even dispatch an investigator/adjudicator ala Fitzgerald/Plame/Libby matter but it won't happen until 2 years later and 3 more debt ceiling lifts and no one will care.

[Zywiec]

14. Obama voted against raising the debt ceiling when he was a Senator

so I would say this games continues...

[theophilus]

15. Only if more cuts to the poor are needed. Then, I guess so. n/t

[QC]

16. No, they will roll over like they always do. n/t

[Dr Fate]

17. Good cop bad cop does not work that way. You never reverse the roles.

The good cop stays the good cop, and the bad cop stays the bad cop.

[Imagevision]

18. Without Dems there would be no GOP - it takes two to tangle

[DirkGently]

19. Of course not. They'd be labeled insanely irresponsible anti-American idiots.

[slipslidingaway]

20. kick nt

[readmoreoften]

21. Democrats will only win again if they're allowed.

And then they'll do what they're told. Kind of like this time.

[City Lights]

22. Um, no.

Not a chance. No way. No how. When a GOPer is back in the WH, we'll return to "deficits don't matter" mode.

[Skidmore]

24. Look back to the actions of the Democratic congress when

Bush was in office.