Boehner proposal includes vote on balanced budget amendment

[jaysunb]

Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) will propose to House Republicans that they raise the debt ceiling by up to $1 trillion while conditioning a future increase on enactment of a deficit reduction plan and a congressional vote on a balanced budget amendment.

The plan, detailed by a GOP aide, is likely to fall short of what President Obama and Democratic leaders have demanded because it does not raise the debt ceiling through 2012.

It would save $1.2 trillion over the next 10 years and raise the debt ceiling by $1 trillion immediately. The proposal caps discretionary spending and provides a mechanism to automatically cut spending if those caps are breached.

http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/budget/173285-boehner-two-step-proposal-includes-vote-on-balanced-budget-amendment

[Skip_In_Boulder]

1. Starting to look like the Republicans

are just proposing the same thing over and over. The definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over but yet expect a different result each time. :wtf:

[mmonk]

2. But it seems to work for continuing concessions

and keeping the debate moving in fraudulent directions.

[jaysunb]

3. Amazing how that keep working...

:evilfrown:

[Inuca]

4. A VOTE is no problem, as

long as it does not pass (see recent vote in the Senate).

[tanyev]

5. Zounds! The balanced budget amendment proposal again emerges from its torpor.

This elusive animal can be relied upon to go into hibernation every time a Republican president is sworn into office. Scientists are mystified how it can maintain such an accurate, yet irregular sleep and wake pattern. Some have theorized that it does not completely fall asleep, but continues to monitor Fox News during its periods of inactivity.